Ronald Araujo and Mikel Arteta (Photograph by Michael Reaves, Alex Pantling/Getty Photographs)
Fabrizio Romano has said that Barcelona are “now satisfied” they’ll be retaining defender Ronald Araujo this January regardless of hypothesis over his future.
The Uruguay worldwide has largely been a key participant for Barca lately, however there are additionally different choices in defence and evidently led to some doubt about his scenario.
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Arsenal had been then linked with Araujo in a current report from Marca, but it surely now appears Romano is pleased to rubber-stamp experiences from elsewhere in regards to the participant wanting set to remain put on the Nou Camp.
See beneath for particulars as Romano clarifies the newest on Araujo’s scenario…
??? Barcelona are actually satisfied that Ronald Araújo will keep on the membership, not leaving in January!
New spherical of talks happened on Tuesday with director Deco concerned, as @ffpolo reveals.
Barça bought the inexperienced mild from Ronald to proceed on the membership regardless of Juventus efforts. pic.twitter.com/vBXw709trH
— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) January 15, 2025
Romano mentions Juventus additionally being interested by Araujo, however Arsenal don’t get a point out, so it stays to be seen how concrete these hyperlinks truly had been.
It’s fairly frequent to see varied names thrown round even when the curiosity isn’t that sturdy, however both means, the Gunners absolutely gained’t be getting Araujo in by means of the door any time quickly.
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Ronald Araujo in motion for Barcelona final season (Photograph by Eric Alonso/Getty Photographs)
Arsenal making a transfer for Araujo by no means actually made a lot sense anyway, in reality, because it’s arduous to see the place the 25-year-old would have slot in in Mikel Arteta’s aspect.
AFC have already got the superb pairing of William Saliba and Gabriel Magalhaes, they usually also can name upon others like Ben White, Jurrien Timber, Riccardo Calafiori and Jakub Kiwior to play there if wanted.
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Even when Araujo is a nice participant and maybe an intriguing market alternative, there appears little sense in bringing in a giant identify like this solely to depart him on the bench.
Araujo himself additionally absolutely wouldn’t settle for leaving a giant membership like Barcelona simply to develop into a squad participant, so maybe for this reason he’s in the end wanting set to remain the place he’s in the meanwhile.