Benfica tell Barcelona they want €13m goalkeeper
Catalan paper sport confirms that the Eagles - who recently lost Ederson to Manchester City - need a new goalkeeper, and have told Barca that they like the Dutchman. Speaking of Eagles, Crystal Palace are also very interested in the 28-year-old.
His man motivation? He wants to play at next year’s World Cup, and obviously needs to be a regular starter in order to guarantee the job.
Though the Catalans still see Andre Ter Stegen as their Number One, they have a plan to keep Cillessen: to make him the starter in Copa del Rey games.
Cillessen, 28, only started one Liga games last season despite costing the Blaugrana € 13 million in August 2016.
He has impressed in the pre-season, enough to tempt Benfica into making him their Number One, should he be able to move.
Cillessenn recently said that he would wait until January to evaluate the situation:"If I play very little, we will see in the winter transfer window, but for the moment I am not thinking about anything.
"I'm not happy if I don't play. When I arrived I knew that I would have to adapt myself to many new things."
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