Araujo and Gavi, renovations “stranded”

The FC Barcelona is working to try to get the renovations of Gavi (17 years old) and Ronald Araujo (23 years old), two of the team’s most promising players, usually starters in the eleven of Xavi Hernandez and that the contract ends in 2023. However, for now, the club’s agreement with the players’ agents is not close, despite the fact that various reports confirmed it. In fact, sources from the Barcelona entity admit that, at the moment, the negotiations are literally “Stranded”.

To avoid unfounded panics, these same sources point out that there is a very positive part that is extracted from the conversations with the agents of both players: that both Gavi What Araujo have as a priority to renew their contracts with the Barça, above the interest they generate in other important clubs. However, it is also true that for now an agreement has not been reached with either of them and that the club does not see an imminent resolution. Among other reasons because, they acknowledge, in recent weeks the contacts have slowed down somewhat so as not to divert the focus of the footballers from the important games they have had and have ahead of them. Without going any further, this coming week they await the Galatasaray and the Real Madrid.

The majority of ‘greats’, for Gavi

At Barça admit that they hope that with Gavi there are fewer problems than Araujo. In the case of the Sevillian, they believe that the strong commitment that the club made for him when he was just 17 years old means that the kid does not consider anything else but renewing, despite the fact that many big clubs are aware of him. In fact, the Liverpoolthe Manchester Unitedthe Chelsea (now in crisis due to the sanction to Roman Abramovich), PSG and Bayern Munich, among other greats, have been interested in his situation, knowing that his clause is 50 million until June 30. Later it will be 100, but he will have less than a year left on his contract. City, meanwhile, have not been interested in him.

Araujo, more complicated

In the case of Araujothe Manchester United is pressing hard for him and although the player wants to continue, at the club it is believed that his agent prioritizes Barça less than his GaviWhat is it Ivan de la Pena. The clause of the Uruguayan center-back, yes, is much higher: 200 million.

attentive to the market

Meanwhile, the players’ approach is clear: they want to continue in the Camp Nou but also that their worth be recognized in terms of salary and role in the team. And it is not that they want to charge exorbitant figures, but the amounts attributed to possible signings as free agents of Franck Kessie (Milan) and Andreas Christensen (Chelsea) have their influence because while some have already demonstrated their quality dressed in Barça, the others have not yet done so. Meanwhile, a clear message was sent from the club by President Laporta, who put the ball on the roof of Araujo and Gavi: “If they want to continue, they will continue”.

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