Barcelona Make Final Alves Push
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Barcelona are preparing to make one last push to prise Daniel Alves away from Sevilla and are ready to include Fernando Navarro to their higher offer.
The Andalucian outfit turned down a bid of €25m from the Blaugrana last month, but the Catalan outfit are now ready to go back and either sign the player or call the whole deal off.
Alves has known about Barça's interest for four months and has even posed for Sport newspaper with Barça shirt and crest after agreeing a deal with the club.
Joan Laporta wants to make two more signings before a referendum on his future is held in two weeks and believes that Alves would the pinnacle of the summer deals.
Barcelona are going to make a bid of €30m and include a number of incentive-based clauses that could see that amount rise further should the Brazilian continue to perform well at Camp Nou.
If Sevilla are still not convinced then the suggestion is that Barça will buy out the remainder Navarro's contract from Mallorca and include him in a swap deal.
The Blaugrana own ten per cent of their former youth team player and know that Sevilla are keen to land him, despite being put off by the Balearic club's asking price.
Alves himself is intent on leaving the club where he has spent the last six seasons after seeing a lucrative move to Chelsea denied him last summer because president José Maria del Nido wanted him for the Champions League.
Currently with the Brazil national team, the 25-year-old is being kept up-to-date with events back in Spain and is hoping that the two clubs can agree a fee for him.
Lucas Brown, Goal.com
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The final push. The deal will be completed or fall to pieces. If I had to pick a side who will crumble then it will obviously be Barca. They haven't got a RB for next season and del Nido is a genious of holding out for amazing prices, he knows that Barca will probably pay what he asks.
The only real RB option if Barca don't get Alves is David Cortes and I haven't seen a lot of him.