Agreement principle for the expansion of Ansu Fati

Mundo Deportivo reports this Tuesday morning of a meeting in Porto between Barça’s football director, Mateu Alemany, and Jorge Mendes, Ansu Fati’s agent, in which an agreement was reached to extend the Barça youth squad’s contract. The duration of the contract is not specified, although a few days ago Pedri signed until June 2026, in what could be a clue to Barça’s plans with Ansu Fati.

After Messi’s departure, Ansu has become more than just a great player for Barça. He is the franchise player of the future and the fact of giving him the number 10 was completely symbolic. Although Jorge Mendes was in Barcelona last week and gave the feeling that the negotiation could drag on because, in addition, Barça has extended the Assembly for a week and Laporta could be more dedicated to preparing the yes to Espai Barça than to expanding the forward.

But that is the work of Mateu Alemany, who is the one who has traveled to Portugal to close the terms of the agreement. Jorge Mendes had received very direct orders from the player, who ended his contract in 2022 although the club has a unilateral clause to extend him until 2021, that he only listen to Barça, no offers from European clubs. In the last hours the negotiations have accelerated and the agreement, which would reassure the Barça fans, tired of hearing bad news, could be very close.