Ansu Fati has emerged as one of many few gamers at Barcelona who’ve struggled to make their presence felt beneath the management of Hansi Flick.
The Spanish ahead has fallen behind within the pecking order and isn’t part of Flick’s plans anymore, regardless of his greatest efforts to woo the German tactician.
Barcelona, for his or her half, are decided to eliminate Fati. However their makes an attempt haven’t fairly labored because the participant has remained eager on staying on the membership.
Barcelona prepared to increase Fati’s contract
Realising that the method of offloading Fati goes to be lengthy and tough, Barcelona seem to have drawn out a brand new plan for the attacker.
In response to Diario SPORT, Barcelona are contemplating following the Samuel Umtiti method for Fati by extending his contract.
The technique was utilized in 2022 when Barça prolonged Umtiti’s contract till 2026 even if the participant had no future on the membership.
Barcelona are contemplating extending Fati’s contract (Picture by Alex Caparros/Getty Photos)
This was accomplished with a purpose to cut back the participant’s wages and unfold it over a number of years, which in flip, helped Barcelona cut back the instant monetary affect of the Frenchman’s wage.
The identical might be repeated within the case of Fati, who is meant to earn a gross wage of €12 million for the 2025-26 marketing campaign.
The wage is anticipated to rise to €14 million within the 2026-27 marketing campaign, which means Barcelona should shell out a gross wage of €26 million on Fati for the following two years. His present deal expires in 2027.
Nevertheless, ought to Barça renew Fati’s deal till 2030, the brand new construction would see the ahead earn round €5.2 million per season till 2030, versus a direct hit of €12 million subsequent season.
That mentioned, implementing this methodology would require settlement with Fati, which could possibly be tough contemplating the truth that the participant’s camp is reportedly sad over his lack of game-time on the membership, regardless of the ahead’s committment.