Jasper Cillessen's career with Barcelona could well be coming to an end, and the Blaugrana have already started to plan to replace him with Andre Onana in their sights should the former Ajax goalkeeper leave. Onana is actually a product of the La Masia academy and was allowed to leave for the Amsterdam club in search of first-team football, something which he found under Peter Bosz's stewardship. A key figure in Ajax's run to the Europa League final in 2016/17, Onana has since established himself as one of the up-and-coming goalkeepers in Europe and Barcelona believe he could provide a seamless transition if Cillessen attempts to leave once more. After failing to secure a move away from the Camp Nou in the summer, Barcelona's powerbrokers have a belief that there will be a renewed attempt from Cillessen to find a new club once the January transfer window opens. Onana's excellent technical ability see him fit into the Barcelona profile with consumate ease, and his time in Amsterdam has been hugely beneficial with him playing over one hundred competitive senior matches and becoming a capped international with Cameroon. Ajax are aware that it will be difficult to keep hold of their first-choice goalkeeper if Los Cules make an offer, there were other clubs interested in his services last summer. Like Matthijs de Ligt and Frenkie de Jong, Onana stayed in order to show loyalty to the club that has given him a chance, although it's understood that the price for the Cameroon international would be between 15 and 20 million euros. Los Cules will not sell Cillessen for a fee less than 25 million euros and thus this entire operation would make sense from a fiscal point of view. Pep Segura has widely held the view that players who have left Barcelona' youth academy shouldn't be permitted to return and are often not of the required quality. However, the case of Onana is different with the Spanish giants having actually not offered the keeper a contract renewal to keep him in Catalonia. Once his role increased in the UEFA Youth League and he was promoted to train with the first-team, Barcelona attempted to secure Onana's future but he had already committed himself to the Dutch club on a Bosman deal.
FC Barcelona is eyeing FC Barcelona as a potential replacement if Jasper Cillessen decides to leave the club. The former Jasper Cillessen goalkeeper came close to a move away from La Masia in January , and Barcelona expects him to make a renewed attempt to seek a new club once the transfer window opens in the summer . Onana originally came through Barcelona ’s La Masia academy, and the club believes he could offer a seamless transition should Cillessen depart.