
Paris Saint-Germain boss Luis Enrique is pushing for a reunion with Dani Olmo, with Barcelona’s 27-year-old playmaker attracting January noise and a mooted €70m valuation.
Hansi Flick’s preference for Fermín López last weekend has sharpened speculation around Olmo’s immediate role, even as the club stresses calm.
PSG interest grows as Flick juggles form and balance
Reports in Spain suggest Enrique views Olmo as a plug-and-play option for PSG’s flexible midfield-forward lanes, a profile he knows well from their time with La Roja.
The figure widely floated is around €70m, a number that would hand Barça a modest profit on the deal struck with RB Leipzig last summer. With Barcelona attempting to bed in Flick’s positional play against an intense schedule, the head coach has leaned on form players, handing Fermín the start versus Valencia before turning to Olmo off the bench for impact.
That decision has fuelled talk rather than settled it, even if the staff’s internal reading is that rotations are tactical, not terminal.
Barça stance: meetings, market noise, and financial reality
Off the pitch, the swirl has been fed by sightings of Andy Bara, the agent who represents Olmo, visiting club offices for routine check-ins with sporting director Deco. Such meetings are standard at this stage of the season, but they inevitably become Rorschach tests in a market where Barcelona’s wage-cap gymnastics remain under the microscope.
The club’s long flirtation with the margins last season, including registration wrangles, makes any high-value outbound link feel simultaneously plausible and premature. The internal line remains consistent: Olmo is valued, fit, and part of the plan, yet Barcelona will always listen if a proposal lands that improves the squad and the balance sheet.
Timing and tactics: January vs summer
A winter move would give PSG a mid-season jolt, but January premium and Barça’s own Champions League ambitions complicate that path. Summer 2026 chatter has also surfaced in parallel, reflecting a broader reality: Olmo’s hybrid skill-set, comfort between the lines and final-third creativity are coveted across Europe. For now, Flick’s selection calls will be read as tea leaves.
If Olmo strings a run of starts and end-product together, the conversation flips from “available at €70m” to “indispensable.” If his minutes stay sporadic, suitors will smell leverage.
Site Opinion
Barcelona’s best move is the dull one: cool the market with minutes. Olmo smooths build-up and adds incision in ways few in this squad can replicate, and swapping that out in January risks short-term pain for medium-term gain.
Unless PSG turn interest into an above-market bid that solves multiple problems at once, the football case favours keeping him central to Flick’s spring blueprint and revisiting his future when the club has greater cost-control headroom.
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