The youth squad will seal his new contract for the next four seasons when he returns to training, the week of July 11
Located on a small salary step below Araujo, the club is committed to reviewing his file in the immediate future
Renovation on track. After several meetings, comings and goings, push and pull; Gavi will sign his contractual renewal with FC Barcelona. After polishing a few last fringes, the agreement is total between the two parties and his new contract will link him to the Blaugrana club for the next four seasons, until June 30, 2026.
The agenda, however, will not allow the formal act to take place until the youth squad returns to training the week of July 11, after having participated in the UEFA Nations League with the absolute Spanish team. This week, you know, it’s the turn of Kessié and Christensen’s presentations: Wednesday and Thursday, respectively.
One of the greatest points of disparity was that of the economic section, since the club considered him a bet for the future, while Gavi’s agent sees him as a footballer of the present. At 17 years old and young, he has become a fixture at Xavi Hernández’s Barça and Luis Enrique’s Spanish team.
Finally, Gavi will be one step below Ronald Araujo, although Barça is fully committed to carrying out a salary review in the immediate future. In the same way, the Sevillian will become part of the club with the 1,000 million euros termination clauseof which Pedri González, Ansu Fati, Ferran Torres and Ronald Araujo are already part.
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Another issue that will remain to be resolved is that of Gavi’s new bib number. Let us remember that the midfielder wore number 30 -like Messi in his beginnings-, but in the new season he must have one between 1 and 25, as he is part of the first team. Adama’s ’11’ and Luuk de Jong’s ’17’ are already available, as is Dani Alves’ ‘8’, which will presumably be acquired by Pedri. Numbers like Riqui Puig’s ‘6’, Braithwaite’s ’12’, Lenglet’s ’15’, Pedri’s ’16’, Mingueza’s ’22’ or Umtiti’s ’23’ could be some of the chosen ones for our protagonist.
De Jong’s ’21’ or Memphis’ ‘9’ are also up in the air; while Ferran Torres and Aubameyang could change their ’19’ and ’25’, respectively, for a lower one. The final list will take several weeks to become official, before the League begins. Until then, and as usual in preseason, footballers who do not yet have an assigned number, as would be the case with Gavi, could wear several numbers.
