What sources close to Wesley Fofana are saying about Barcelona transfer as one major issue becomes clear

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·07 de maio de 2026

What sources close to Wesley Fofana are saying about Barcelona transfer as one major issue becomes clear

Wesley Fofana’s camp are insisting that the defender doesn’t want to leave Chelsea – we assume his reasoning is financial.

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This week, the first serious whispers about Wesley Fofana emerged, with talk from various publications that he had been “offered” to Barcelona by his representatives.

The Catalan club were said to have added him to their list of potential targets – albeit pretty far behind number one choice Alessandro Bastoni.

Today’s Daily Mail has an update on all that. They say that Fofana has “no intention” of leaving Chelsea, according to sources close to him. You wouldn’t have known it from looking at his attitude on the pitch. He looks like he’d rather be anywhere.

Fofana’s wages make tricky situation for club and player

Presumably Fofana’s £200,000 a week wages are the issue here. Given his record of injuries and performance since signing from Leicester in 2022, nobody is going to offer him anything close to that.

He would therefore be mad to leave Chelsea where he’s getting such a monster payday. No matter how unhappy he is with the club’s direction, he’s not willing to talk away from that kind of money. He finally got his wish when Liam Rosenior was sacked, and is presumably now hoping he and the new manager get on better.