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Barcelona are willing to offload forward Antoine Griezmann this summer to help ease the enormous financial issues besetting the club, according to reports in Spain.
Reports on Monday claimed the Catalan giants are unable to register any of their new signings because they have exceeded LaLiga's strict salary limit by 40 per cent.
That means that until players are moved on, new arrivals such as Sergio Aguero, Memphis Depay and Eric Garcia cannot be officially registered with the league.
Barcelona are reportedly willing to offload Antoine Griezmann to help ease financial woes
Griezmann is the club's current top earner with Messi yet to re-sign with the Catalan outfit
And according to Sport, Barcelona - who are also more than £1billion in debt - are looking to sell one of their top earners, with France international Griezmann prime among them.
The report adds the Catalan outfit need to offload around £171million (€200m) from their wage bill to register all of their new signings and tie Lionel Messi down to a new contract.
And the outlet claims selling Griezmann will help ease around £107m (€125m) of that amount, alongside whatever transfer fee Barcelona could manage to recoup for the 30-year-old.
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