The FC Barcelona and the representative of Gavi, Ivan de la Peña, have had a first contact today to talk about the situation of the midfielder from The palaces (Sevilla). The club wants to improve its record and extend its contract, which ends in 2023, and this has been transmitted to its representative so that there are no doubts of any kind.
The parties spoke superficially and preliminarily before the dispute over the Nations League in october, when Gavi He became a starter in the team of Luis Enrique that touched the triumph in this tournament. Today’s meeting has already been formal and in it the Barça He wanted to make it clear that his priority objective is to tie up and improve the emoluments of the young Sevillian player, who is becoming one of the benchmarks for Barça and the national team despite the fact that he is only 17 years old.
Chelsea attentive
This meeting will be followed by more meetings in the coming weeks because this time money has not been talked about, neither of figures nor of quantities. Therefore, there is still a long way to go. In any case, and before the many clubs that are pending Gavi (including the Chelsea), Barça wanted to convey their unequivocal position to him: they believe in him and want to renew him.
The footballer, for his part, is focused on the first team matches and training sessions under the command of Xavi, for which it is fixed in the alignments. His will is to continue at Barça, which is the club of his dreams, but the club knows that it cannot be distracted. And it is that weighty suitors are not lacking and their clause is 50 million euros, an amount that in a player with his present and his future is not unreasonable for the great transatlantic European football.
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