It was all set for Jean Michaël Seri to join FC Barcelona, and then, he didn’t. What happened? There was a lot of confusion at the time, but according to a few reports, the reason was because his club tried to raise his price at the eleventh hour.
Speaking on BBC Radio 5, French journalist Julien Laurens said Seri’s club Nice raised the price from 40 million to 50 million at the last moment, and that’s the only reason the Catalan club pulled out:
He has that unofficial release clause of 40 million euros in his contract, and Barça said ‘OK, we’ve watched him so many times, he suits our club perfectly.