The speculation surrounding Marco Verratti and Barcelona has slowly been ramping up this week but Sport have taken it up yet another notch with today’s exclusive.
They report that Verratti and his agent Donato Di Campli met with Barcelona for the first time on Wednesday during his holiday in Ibiza.
There’s also plenty of rumours around today of Verratti having dinner with Lionel Messi in Ibiza, yet curiously while there are lots of pictures of both players, they don’t appear together. Make of that what you will.
Sport, meanwhile, claim the midfielder enjoyed a fairly casual meeting with Barcelona director Javier Bordas where they informed him of Verratti’s desire to move to Camp Nou and confirmed they are pushing PSG for an exit.