The future of Sergi Roberto at FC Barcelona is complicated with each passing week and the option that the youth squad and one of the captains of the squad leaves the club at the end of the season taking on more body every day.
Sergi Roberto (30 years old) has been with the Blaugrana entity since he was a child and in the first team since 2011. He debuted with the first team as a youth at the Santiago Bernabéu in the iconic victory of Guardiola’s Barça in the first leg of the Champions League semifinals League 0-2 and went down in history for scoring the sixth goal in the comeback against Paris Saint-Germain. However, this service record does not weigh on the negotiations that have been stalled for too long between his representative and the club.
The player ends his contract with Barcelona on June 30 and the distance between the parties is staggering. Months ago there was talk of a possible renewal, with very low figures that the footballer did not accept and since then the negotiations have become entrenched to the point that the club’s board considers that its renewal is “very, very complicated.”
“At the moment this is in the hands of the representatives. Sergi Roberto is a player that we have a lot of appreciation for, I personally do. He has given many years of glory and a lot of football to Barça, now he is recovering from an injury and his contract is ending. The renewal was offered at the time, I even intervened so that they were conditions in consensus with the two parties and they did not want to sign that renewal. We therefore understand that since they did not want to sign and now the contract is over…”, explained Laporta, to Mundo Deportivo in his last interview. From the box they do not hide a certain disappointment with one of the team captains.
In the same interview, Laporta added that “we’ll see, because he is a player to whom we have to have special consideration and deference because he has been part of a glorious stage in Barça’s history. That will focus on talking to him and setting the record straight on both sides.”