Barcelona wants to extend Ronald Araujo’s contract until June 2026

It is not exactly left over from plants, so you must keep what you have. Precisely for this reason, FC Barcelona wants to renew Ronald Araujo until June 2026. The club and the Uruguayan footballer’s legal advisers have been negotiating for weeks the extension of the defender’s contract, which ends in 2023. Sources consulted by Goal say that the club had already planned to undertake this expansion, which will conform to the club’s new policy of salary ‘scheduling’. At Barça they are satisfied with the Uruguayan’s progression and that is why they have already taken the step to renew the contract, as Luis Fernando Rojo advances in “Marca”.

Araujo’s clause is already 200 million

While waiting for FC Barcelona to move in January and complete the signing of Eric García, who still does not want to renew with Manchester City, Barça need to have centrals ready and prepared to enter competition, because the calendar is demanding. Precisely for this reason, Ronald Araujo, who likes the club, is already under Ronald Koeman. The Uruguayan is, since this season, a player of the first squad for all purposes. This circumstance has motivated that its clause go from 100 to 200 million euros.

Although the Uruguayan’s contract renewal is not official yet, the club is optimistic that both parties can soon reach an agreement. The player was signed two years ago, from the modest Boston River, after paying two million dollars to the Boston River. Ronald worked in the Barça subsidiary, debuted with Ernesto Valverde and since then, he has not stopped progressing, something that Barcelona has taken into account, so now he wants to renew him.

His great litmus test could come this Wednesday in the Champions League, against Juventus in Turin. Gerard Piqué is suspended after being sent off against Ferenvaros and at the moment, with Umtiti out of combat, Koeman only has two center-backs at 100% conditions, Clement Lenglet and Ronald Araujo himself. The Uruguayan already responded perfectly in the clash he had to play this season against Sevilla at the Camp Nou and now, in all probability, he will start again with the first team. Its renewal is underway and it seems like a good decision for the club.

The Barça was ahead to the Real Madrid

In 2018, Real Madrid was on the prowl to try to get the services of the azulgrana. In fact, the current Barcelona technical secretary, Ramón Planes, had him ‘signed’ when he works at Getafe and despite the fact that Ramón Martínez, now attached to the general management of the club, tried to take over the player’s services, finally Barcelona seized He led the cat into the water to sit him up.