The incredible salary of Lenglet that makes it difficult for him to leave Barça

The exit of Clément Lenglet continues being one of the 'serials' pending for the FC Barcelona this summer. In principle, the club expected to resolve his traspaso definite to the Tottenham without problems, but the doubts of the group londinense have left the operation frozen, although the Frenchman had an acceptable performance in his first season in the Premier League.

This roots, further of his sportive actuality, in the high index card that the one of Beauvais has valid with the Barça. The agreement of Lenglet wins in June of 2026 and, for the 2023/24, his net wage round the 16 million net euros, 4 'kilos' less than what had earned Samuel Umtiti of not terminating his agreement. The past season, the Tottenham accepted to pay 7 of the €12m of the wage of the player to close his cession by a year.

The Barça looks for a new cession for Lenglet

When cooling the negotiation with the 'spurs', the Barça has offered to Clément to the Juventus and other teams to try speed up his exit. The last offer of the Tottenham rondo the 15 million euros, but the defender will have to recess his wage at least to the half so that the negotiation prosper, something that up to now does not have sucedido. For the Barça, the another option is to terminate his agreement, but the compensation that would have to give to the player neither is a solution.

With Umtiti, instead, was simpler to give him exit, since the central had accepted to renew the year happened to recess and differ his wage. In total, the club saved 20 'kilos', as it had stipulated in the plan of economic feasibility approved by LaLiga. When the directive chaired by Josep María Bartomeu renewed to Lenglet until 2026 in October of 2020, the club ensured to save more than 30 'kilos' in wages and amortizaciones, explaining the new agreements of Ter Stegen and Gerard Hammered. At the end, this supposed more than €300m in on cost of the staff on a long-term basis.

The exit of Lenglet has to close what before

With the pending registrations of Iñigo Martínez and Ílkay Gündogan, the Barça knows that it can not dilate too much the exit of Clément Lenglet. The own sucede with Sergiño Dest and others 'descartes' for the 2023/24. So much the central like the mediocentro already have warned to the club that, of not being inscribed before the beginning of LaLiga around the middle of August, will leave free. The time runs against for a Barça that still drags the losa of the 'súper agreements' inherited of the management Bartomeu.