OFFICIAL: Jordi Alba renews with the FC Barcelona until 2024

What ran the risk to turn into a 'serial' finally has finished before it arrive the summer. Jordi Alba, that finished agreement in June of 2020 and still had not renewed the agreement that links him to the FC Barcelona, has sealed finally the official renewal with the Barcelona club, signing a new agreement that will carry him to form part of the Catalan entity until 2024. The player happens to have a clause of 500 million euros in this new agreement.

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@JordiAlba Renews his agreement with the FC Barcelona until the year 2024!
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After a lot of gone and come, and of some previous meetings that went little satisfactory, at the end from the managerial board of Josep Maria Bartomeu has gone yielding little by little until arriving to a break-even point with the contractual pretences of Jordi Alba, the one who will see improved his emolumentos in the club and confirms , of this form, as one of the heavy weights of the staff.

It fits to remember that the one of L'Hospitalet already showed very optimistic after the victory of the Barça harvested the Saturday against the Seville (2-4), although they still were missing some details for resolving. The negotiations between both parts accelerated in the last days, with the apparition of the president Josep Maria Bartomeu to commission personally of the renewal of Jordi Alba.

The intention was to negotiate after the eliminatory of eighth of Champions League against the Olympique of Lyon, but finally from the club bet for giving a definite impulse to the renewal, that already has fraguado to official level between the club and the player. 

From the first formal meeting of which had news, the past 26 November up to now, the proposal of the FC Barcelona has gone modifying of agreement to the importance of Jordi Alba in the staff, so much for Ernesto Valverde as of face to the future. The Barcelona took his time to elaborate a new proposal that did not go refused by the surroundings of Jordi Alba, and at the end there has been happy final.

Josep Maria Bartomeu, of this form, annotates the second 'puntazo' of the year 2019, after having starred the signing of Frenkie of Jong during the past wintry market, sealing the operation so that fragüe in summer. In the renewal of Jordi Alba, Bartomeu would have gone back to take the reins of the negotiations so that all arrived to good port.

Jordi Alba, an indispensable piece for the Barça

It treated of something necessary, taking into account that Jordi Alba is the only left side of the staff, and one of the players with more minutes to the orders of Ernesto Valverde. From the course of Neymar Jr to the PSG, has converted  by own merits in the best left side of the world, and also in an assistant of luxury that has an only connection with Leo Messi, being his best partner. Now, fortunately, the barcelonismo already knows that it will be able to enjoy of the game of Jordi Alba several seasons more. Happinesses!