BarcelonaThe first renewal of Joan Laporta in his second stage as president of Barça was not that of Leo Messi, who would have signed his tenth extension with the club of his life. The narrowness of the Barça club ended with the Argentine reluctantly leaving for Paris and with the president orphaned with joy in sports, as he also did not find a way to excite the parish with a new coach to replace Ronald Koeman. nor was he in a position to face any major signings for the men’s first team. The forecast, however, is that he may start making important deals sportingly in the coming weeks. In this sense, Laporta himself, who has only been able to announce the salary reductions of three of the four captains, advanced cofoi in an interview with RAC1 that the contractual improvements of Pedri González and Ansu Fati are on the right track. Both end in 2022 and have conditions that do not fit with their projection.
Of the two strategic renewals that are imposed in the short term at the discretion of the sports management, the most advanced is that of Pedri. Sources in the negotiation assure ARA that the canary will stop being the member of the staff with the most modest salary (now receives just over a million and a half net per year) to be placed in the middle class of the current salary scale, far from Philippe Coutinho, accidental leader of the ranking. Barça’s intention is for the young midfielder’s new contract, the first he will sign as an adult, to follow the line of austerity that Mateu Alemany and Ferran Reverter began to implement with Eric García, who arrived at the Camp Nine after the new management revised downwards the amounts it had under the outgoing board, and which did not weigh on Ilaix Moriba, who was transferred to Leipzig in the last days of the summer market. This new way of approaching professional contracts attacks the drift of recent years, marked by long, upward and rich agreements in variables that are easy to fulfill and loyalty bonuses. Now the modus operandi it is recommended to first outline the total cost of the agreement and then define the ideal duration. You need to be surgical in times of lean cows.
Pedri and Barça are more or less in tune with the magnitude of the improvement to be made, but have not yet agreed on whether the contract will be long (until 2026 or 2027), although reviewable in two or three years depending on the player’s performance, or if a shorter commitment is chosen. The current agreement with Tegueste ends on June 30, 2022, although it could execute a unilateral extension until 2024, which also happens in the case of Ansu Fati. The idea of the sports management, however, is to put Pedri’s emoluments at the height of their market value, which since he signed for Barça has multiplied by five and, according to the specialized website Transfermarkt, has not suffered. no drop in recent months, not even in those days when the player has been injured. The former Las Palmas player arrived in Barcelona with a low profile, as a bet of the technical secretary Ramon Planes, and in his first year in the elite he ended up playing 75 official matches between club and national teams. Having taken a place in both the eleven-year-old and Luis Enrique’s plans in the absolute and the Olympic team in Tokyo has led him to become the only candidate in Barça’s current squad for the men’s Golden Ball final. He has also won the Aldo Rovira Memorial Prize, in which he won the vote for Messi and De Jong. By the way, Laporta – with a voice but without a vote – would have awarded the Dutch interior.
Avoid a soap opera with Dembélé
With Pedri pending the end of his contract, Ansu Fati’s situation has yet to burn more screens. Sports world He said that the representative of the Spanish-Guinean, Jorge Mendes, already has the first Barça draft, which will be shorter than would be desirable due to the club’s financial situation. There is some haste with Ansu. With the signing of a new contract, Barça would give joy to the members and would once again have the upper hand with one of the most expensive sporting assets it has today. Because, with June 30, 2022 as the end date of the current commitment, the Barça brand cannot be promoted with the young striker as the standard-bearer, nor can a millionaire sale be aspired to if necessary. A sale, by the way, that during the summer had followers within the club.
Ansu and Pedri will now have better contractual conditions. Also with Gavi, the new Catalan sensation, there are planned meetings to raise the current salary. Instead, the open negotiations with Sergi Roberto and Ousmane Dembélé are going in the opposite direction. With Reus, as reported by ARA on September 29, the talks have been a success because Barça want the reduction to be more substantial than what was agreed a few weeks ago. In any case, the deal will be closed because the player does not want to leave. Less clear is the matter with Dembélé, who ends his contract next summer and is in less of a hurry than the club to extend his downward commitment. The French winger is about to reappear and Laporta, who knows he is an asset for the future if injuries respect him, wants to renew him to prevent him from going free next summer. According to the newspaper Sport, if there is no negotiating will on the part of the player, the entity could follow the same path as with Ilaix: ostracism and bleachers.
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