Madrid sports tabloid Marca claims that Barcelona defensive midfielder and Spanish youth international Sergio Busquets (20), whose contract expires at the end of this season, has rejected a recent renewal offer by Barcelona.
Barcelona would have proposed the player a salary of 500 000 euro plus incentives. The player would receive another 500 000 euro if he plays 60 per cent of the matches and if Barcelona qualifies for the Champions League and an third sum if the team would win one or two trophies.
This offer would have been rejected by Josep Maria Orobitg, the agent of Busquets, who nevertheless will hold new talks with Barcelona sports director Txiki Begiristain in the coming days trying to reach an agreement.
Catalan sports paper Sport, who thinks that Busquets could earn around 1 million euro, claims that a meeting on Monday was cancelled because of the death of the father of Barcelona goalkeeping coach Unzué (read more here) but that the parties will meet in the coming days. Although the talks are just starting, the club and the player want to find a deal as soon as possible.
Asked about his renewal negotiations, Busquets is quoted by the paper as saying that he's confident about staying: "There's no problem and I'm sure that I will renew my Barcelona contract and that we will find a deal. My agent, Orobitg, is dealing with this issue, while I'm focusing on playing football and enjoying the game. At this moment I'm relaxed about how things are going and all I want right now is to keep on getting playing minutes and the more, the better."
Asked about the renewal negotiations of Busquets and Xavi, Barcelona president Joan Laporta said earlier this week to journalists that he also believes in a good outcome: "The talks are mainly a matter that is een dealt with by Txiki, but I think the negotiations need some time before we concretely reconcile the interests of both parties.
Catalan sports weekly paper Gol claims that AC Milan, Inter Milan, Arsenal, Chelsea, Bayern Munich and Real Madrid would already have contacted Busquets. Turin sports tabloid Tuttosport claims that Juventus is also interested.
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4 comments:
I think they are not that far from sealing a deal, barcelona offer is not realistic for a first team player, while a straight 1 M fixed salary is unlikely, there is something inbetween, this is negociation process, lets wait and see.
barcelona management made a big mistake promoting him before offering him a contract extention, not he is in a strong position, fair game whether we like it or not.
"now he is in a strong position" not "not" :)
Agree with Ramzi. We moved ourselves in this position, so we can't blame the player for playing this game.
I agree that we put ourselves in this position, but I guess it is hard to always get it right. Perhaps Busquets wasnt expected to be promoted so quickly given all of the midfielders already on the squad.
On the other hand not taking anything away from his calibre of play, but it is still his first few games as part of the barca squad and therefore I feel that he is expecting a little too much salary.
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