Verratti: the summer's soap opera

If my maths is not wrong there are 51 days of the transfer market left and the Marco Verratti transfer is threatining to become a topic even more tiresome than the songs 'Despacito' and 'Súbeme la radio' combined (Luis Fonsi and Enrique Iglesias, if you're struggling outside of Spain). You'd suppose the player put an end to the speculations when he filmed an interview saying sorry for his agents comments that he "was a prisoner of Emir." It was a given, it seemed, he would stay in Paris. But newspaper L'Equipe report that, despite the video, neither Barça nor the player have given up on a transfer. So there are two options, given those reports.  Expand on them, as Cadena SER have done, or invent a little, as Deportes Cuatro have.

On the show La Graderia on SER, they went directly to the source and spoke to Antoine Maumon, the journalist who follows Paris Saint-Germain and who works for said newspaper. Maumon informed that the player was obliged to film the interview, although he added that he still does not expect a deal will be possible this summer. In contrast, Cuatro used the French media's reports and then added a new line. They recreated a Whatspp conversation in which Barça president Josep Maria Bartomeu supposedly said to the player "we will wait until August 31" but without any actual evidence. And meanwhile, Real Madrid continue to make signings like a machine. This summer is going to be long. Very long.