The 'crack' that FC Barcelona would have sold this summer if it had been possible

The FC Barcelona has seen to frustrate a possible plan of market around the figure of Ronald Araújo. Why? Then , because the defender charrúa, an active very attractive to star a traspaso millionaire in this window of transfers veraniega, suffered an unlucky injury in the sinew of the isquiotibial of the right thigh. This mishap required a surgical intervention and estimates that it will need around four months to recover .

This physical setback has descartado any option that the Barcelona group can do businesses with the one of Rivera in this market estival. Previous to this event, the idea of a traspaso earned increasingly forces with the step of the days, mainly due to the fact that the process of renewal of the Uruguayan, whose agreement with the club culé finalises in 2026, according to several sources, apparently was not progressing of favourable way. It seemed to have discrepancies between what the combined Catalan is had to offer and what the surroundings of Araújo considers adapted to sue by a player of his 'caché' and importance in the staff culé.

It is necessary to remember that, as the commented previously in 'Esport3' of 'Catalonia Ràdio', the posture of the FC Barcelona consisted in offering him to Ronald an extension of agreement until 2028, with an increase salarial sustancioso between the economic reality of the club. At present, the exjugador of Boston River perceives around 7 M€ gross. To accept the widespread proposal by the Barcelonan cast, would happen to win around 13,5 M€. This would position it to the pair of his mate of saga, Jules Koundé, in the scale salarial of the staff. Nevertheless, this proposal apparently has not seduced the sufficient to the surroundings of Araújo and the club would have taken a firm position in this regard.

The arguments that 'endorsed' the possible sale of Ronald Araújo this summer

Although the FC Barcelona values to his '4' as one of the key elements in his tactical diagram, one of the big captains of the team and an authentic 'leader' in the defensive line, his continuity sees complicated because of the difficulties to arrive to an agreement between both parts. Although Joan Laporta, president of the Barcelona entity, expressed in his moment that would renew the agreement of the player "for life", the negotiations seem to have purchased a level of remarkable complexity. In this context, the option to look for him a new destination to the defender did not seem descabellada.

In this point, several circumstances played in favour. Ronald Araújo is one of the central defenders with greater value of market in the world, estimated in some 70 M€ as the website 'Transfermarkt'. However, it is ineludible that the Barça could have asked much more by him, especially considering that his agreement expires in 2026 and still has some power of negotiation to the not being forced to sell it quickly.

Likewise, the offers and the beaux that have arisen do to think that his sale would be very beneficial for the arks of the club. For example, it mentioned that the Bayern Munich was had to offer 100 'kilos' by his signing, although recently they have showed less interest. Another case was the one of the Manchester United, that rumoreaba that it was had to do an upper offer to the 80 M€. These montos resulted very attractive for the picture culé, that only invested 1,7 M€ in his traspaso five years ago, more a series of variables that could have elevated the total cost until 5,2 million euros.

Nevertheless, any of these operations has concretised and, with this injury, any stage that do not involve to extend his agreement remains descartado. The combined Barcelonan does not wish that Araújo go in in the last year of his agreement without having rubricado his contractual enlargement, to avoid complicate even more the negotiations and, in the worst of the cases, risk to lose it without obtaining a suitable economic compensation.