Xabi Alonso insists Bayer Leverkusen should not specializing in reviews that key defender Jonathan Tah is already in superior talks with Barcelona over a possible summer time transfer.
Tah is coming to the tip of his contract with the Bundesliga champions, having been closely linked with a switch final summer time amid curiosity from home rivals Bayern Munich.
Having revealed in September that he doesn’t plan to signal a brand new contract with Leverkusen, there may be nonetheless no indication that Tah intends to increase his deal, becoming a member of in 2015 from Hamburg whereas nonetheless a youngster. He can lock in a pre-contract settlement with abroad golf equipment from the beginning of January, which is now little greater than three weeks away.
However whereas Tah stays a Leverkusen participant, Alonso is just within the right here and now.
“I am not nervous about that for the time being,” he instructed reporters when the topic of Tah’s unsure future was raised over the weekend.
“We’re blissful that Jona is with us this season. His angle is prime notch, he has an enormous affect on our recreation. We want him till the final day. Then we’ll see what occurs sooner or later. The summer time continues to be too distant for me.
“It is no shock, we spoke very actually in the summertime. He’s a top-level chief and his degree is getting higher and higher. Now we’re blissful that he’s with us.”
In Pini Zahavi, Tah already shares an agent with Barca boss Hansi Flick, which some may even see as strengthening the chance he chooses Catalonia amid discuss of contemporary rival curiosity from Bayern.
Bayern in the end pulled again from a transfer forward of this season as a consequence of Leverkusen asking €30m for the centre-back. That charge was additionally prohibitive for Barcelona, who’re nonetheless within the constraints of extreme monetary limitations till they lastly elevate the revenue to return to 1:1 La Liga spending guidelines.
That’s reported to be near occurring, though it’s value noting that repeated claims have been made on that entrance by the Spanish media for the reason that summer time.
