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Barcelona's efforts to push Griezmann out show how bad things are financially as they try to keep Messi

"Anything can happen in football," said the Atletico Madrid president, Enrique Cerezo. Even Barcelona following up their decision to let a striker go to Atletico Madrid for free, pay a chunk of his salary and help them win the league by... well, letting a striker go to Atletico Madrid for free, paying a chunk of his salary and helping them win the league.

OK, so Atletico may not win the league next season, and they may not even get the deal done -- in fact, it looks pretty difficult right now -- but FC Barcelona really are talking to them this summer about allowing Antoine Griezmann to go back to the Wanda Metropolitano and for nothing.