Atletico Madrid striker Antoine Griezmann is now willing to take an €8m-a-year pay-cut to force through his move to Barcelona, in the latest turn of the reignited transfer saga.
Griezmann was all set to join La Blaugrana last July, even giving his word to manager Ernesto Valverde and club president Josep Maria Bartomeu that he would do so, but a last minute appeal from Atletico captain Diego Godin, combined with an offer of more than double his then salary forced him to reconsider.
However, Atleti's last 16 exit to Juventus has changed this yet again, and a mass rebuilding job looks to be on the cards for manager Diego Simeone, with Godin, Griezmann, Filipe Luis and Saul Ñiguez all potentially looking to join Lucas Hernandez in departing the club this summer.