In less than a week, the Barça has managed to close the continuity of two of the players who are called to mark an era during the next decade at the club. Last Thursday the Barça made the renewal of Pedri until 2026, with a multi-million dollar buyout clause, set in the € 1 billion.
Just four days later, the football director of the Barça, Mateu alemany, was moving to Port to meet with Jorge Mendes, agent of Ansu Fati, to close the renewal of the young forward, an information advanced by MD, and that was made official last night after the game against him Dynamo of Kiev, with the signature in the offices of the club of Ansu and the president Joan Laporta. The young forward, who this afternoon will offer a press conference at the Auditori 1899, was linked to Barça until 2027 and will have the same clause as Pedri: 1,000 million.
The renewals of the two players who have to support the new project of the Barça, the priority of the Barça technical secretariat will now be to tie another two pearls: Ronald Araujo and Gavi.
The Uruguayan central defender has already made it clear that his priority is to continue in the Barça, with which he has a contract until June 30. The player’s predisposition is total, and both the club and its agent were waiting for the moment to be able to address its continuity. Once the renovations of Pedri and Ansu, which were a priority due to the number of teams that were interested in getting them, the Barça will be launched for Araujo and Gavi, another pearl of the quarry that has exploded in recent weeks, becoming a starter for Ronald Koeman and to Luis Enrique in the national team with only 17 years.
Gavi It currently has a contract that expires on June 30, 2023 and has a release clause of 50 million. The intention of the Barça is to extend his contract for five more years and shield the midfielder with a clause of 500 million, as he did last summer with Nico Gonzalez and Alexander balde.
Dembélé and Sergi Roberto, some different cases
Parallel to the urgent renovations of its pearls, the Barça The continuity of Ousmane Dembélé, which ends on June 30th. However, and despite the fact that the initial response from the French winger and his agent was positive in the meeting held by the two parties on September 21, the Barça club continues without hearing from the representative of Dembélé.
The technical secretariat suspects that, despite good words, Moussa Sissoko -the representative of the Gallic extreme- is giving long to the Barça because it has other much juicier proposals from other teams. The last one arrived yesterday from England, where it was stated that the Newcastle is willing to give you a transfer bonus of 15 million and a token of 15 million by season.
Against this background, from the Barça they have already sent an ultimatum to Dembélé for an answer later this month. Otherwise, the club will interpret that it does not want to continue and will look for alternatives. Without ruling out that he may remain in the stands, the Barça technical secretariat has already been working on the option of hiring Sterlingwhat how Dembélé, contract also ends on June 30 with the Manchester City.
In the same situation, but in reverse, is the renewal of Sergi Roberto. Although initially the Barça He showed his willingness to extend his contract, which also ends next June, something that would allow him to prorate his high record, currently the negotiations between both parties are on hold.
Recently, the agent of Sergi Roberto he acknowledged in MD that “he had no news from the club, but at any time they can be resumed.” The Barça opted to prioritize the negotiations of Pedri and Ansu and park the midfielder of Reus and now it remains to be seen if the club is willing to resume negotiations for him or prefers to let him go free in the summer.
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