The extension and improvement of Araújo’s contract has been dilating and now Barça has had certain emergencies and tries to resume it. The center-back is represented by the company Excellence Sports (Edoardo Crnjar brought him to Barça together with a Venezuelan businessman, Edmundo Kabchi), although the one who liaises with the media is Flavio Perchman, the intermediary who has accompanied him for many years in Uruguay, that this same Friday he assured that “Araújo is very happy and wants to continue in Barcelona”. Perchman also made it clear that he did not give credibility to Madrid’s interest.
Mateu Alemany is going to have to roll up his sleeves with the renewal, because Araújo knows that he is facing the first big contract of his career, the one that can ensure his future. His priority is to continue at Barça, but he hopes that the club appreciates that, in relation to quality-price, he can already be considered a profitable player for Barça, who signed him for 1.7 million euros from Boston River and that, due to variables, it will barely exceed five million. In addition, the Uruguayan international also hopes that Barça values his commitment to the team in details such as this Super Cup, which he has played recently for his fractures in the second and third metacarpals of his right hand. He also did it at a very high level.
Araújo wants to equate himself with centrals that charge much more than him with a performance, in many cases, inferior. Soccer players like Lenglet and Umtiti have much higher salaries and have much less prominence in the last two years. Various media have announced the presence of Araújo’s agents next week in Barcelona, but it does not seem that the talks are going to be resolved so quickly, less so with the salary limit completely exhausted, as Barça now has. Of course, after the extensions of Pedri and Ansu, and the signing of Ferran Torres, Araújo is a priority like Gavi. After resolving Dembélé’s future, Barça will have to start trying to solve it.
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