The Barça club ensures the continuity of the Andalusian midfielder for three more seasons, which makes the Catalans forget the painful defeat against Bayern in the Champions League
Barcelona has Gavi for a while. The Barça club made official this Wednesday the renewal of the young midfielder, just 18 years old, until 2026, with an anti-sheikhs termination clause of 1,000 million euros. In this way, the tug-of-war carried out since the negotiation between the two parties began and Barça secures a player who was already beginning to attract the attention of the most powerful clubs on the Old Continent. The Los Palacios footballer is the present and, now more than ever, the future of the entity.
«Gavi does not surprise me, I see him train every day. It’s hard work, discipline and heart. He was the best player in the match because of his intensity, because of how he fights, because of the passes and because of the high pressure. His intensity gives us a lot », assured Xavi two weeks ago after Barcelona won comfortably at the Sánchez Pizjuán. That day Lewandowski, Raphinha, Dembélé and Pedri shone, but above all of them was a young man of only 18 years. Gavi was the best player in that match and his coach did not hesitate to praise a footballer who has broken down the door of the elite before anyone else and who at that time was already an absolute priority in the Camp Nou offices.
And it is that the renewal of Gavi was a priority issue in the busy agenda of Joan Laporta. Barça has worked in recent months to reach an agreement with Iván de la Peña, the player’s representative, and has done so even after the relationship went through several moments of tension. “His representative has had the offer on the table for a long time. The news we have is that he is comparing and at some point he will have to say something », assured the maximum president culé in a crossroads of declarations that seemed that it could ruin the continuity of the Andalusian player.
Today all that tension is history. Gavi is already a fundamental player in the culé squad and as such will sign a contract extension this Thursday at the Camp Nou until 2026. The new agreement will bring with it a shield in the form of a termination clause of 1,000 million euros, a figure identical to the one that other great jewels of the club already have like Ronald Araujo, Pedri or Ansu Fati.
Gavi’s renewal comes less than 24 hours after Barça suffered the first defeat of the season. Xavi’s team fell in Munich in a match in which he did not negotiate his style, in which he created countless chances but in which he lacked the goal to win a match that allowed him to hit the table . “When you forgive in the Champions League, you end up paying for it. We have been better than Bayern. It was a day to win and we have forgiven too much. They do not forgive, “said Xavi at a press conference after the crash.
sweet and sour taste
And it is that Barcelona made a game in Munich to return with a bittersweet taste. The Catalans managed to play without complexes for many minutes at the Allianz Arena and proved to themselves that Xavi’s model can work on a high-altitude stage and against one of the ocean liners in the top continental competition, but despite the good feelings on the green, the result was the same as on previous occasions, a defeat. On this occasion the fault lay with a lack of aim that seemed more than resolved in recent games. Lewandowski and Pedri had them of all colors but they were unable to break a bad fate that grows and grows after each visit to Bayern.
Traveling to Munich has become for Barcelona a visit to the dentist. The Catalans have played seven times in Germany against Bayern and the background is two draws and five defeats, some as painful as the 4-0 in 2013 in the Champions League semifinals or the 3-0 last season in the phase of groups, a duel to be forgotten in which the pupils of Xavi, substitute for Ronald Koeman, had no choice. That day you could see a Barça that no longer competed in Europe, a team, if you want to see the glass half full, light years away from the one that fell on Tuesday with only a goal difference compared to the last precedent of Barcelona in Munich.
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