Ansu Fati wants to play in Monaco: loan with option to buy in progress

Published New:27/05/2025 - 12:34h

Updated New:27/05/2025 - 12:34h

Ansu Fati has informed his agent Jorge Mendes that he wants to play for Monaco. Barça approves of his departure and is negotiating a loan with an option to buy.

In FC Barcelona there is consensus: Ansu Fati needs continuity and confidence. The coaching staff and the sports management positively value the player finding minutes in a favorable environment, and Monaco is seen as a good option.

However, the economic aspect remains to be closed. The operation is proposed as a loan with an option to buy, a figure that could be around 20 million euros, according to Fabrizio Romano. It is not ruled out that the Monegasque club assumes part or all of the player's salary.

Ansu Fati has already made a decision

The 22-year-old FC Barcelona forward has informed his agent Jorge Mendes of his firm desire to play for AS Monaco next season. The club from the Principality is his priority and, according to sources close to him, fits perfectly with his style of play and sporting aspirations.

During a lunch in Barcelona between Fati and Mendes, they reviewed the available offers. Of all of them, Monaco is the only one that has aroused genuine enthusiasm in the player. Adi Hütter's offensive style, participation in the Champions League and the possibility of feeling like a protagonist again have tipped the balance.

Why Monaco seduces Ansu Fati

The current Barcelona "10" is looking for more than just minutes: he wants to recover his best version in a competitive but not traumatic environment. Monaco, a team that this season beat Barça twice —one of them in the Joan Gamper Trophy—, offers him just that: prominence, ball and goal.

His dominant style, based on possession and high pressure, is better suited to Fati's qualities than other destinations where counterattacks are privileged, a terrain where the player has lost spark after the injuries.

Jorge Mendes negotiates with Laporta the future of Ansu… and Lamine Yamal

The Portuguese agent Jorge Mendes plans to meet with Joan Laporta to close two important folders: the loan of Ansu Fati and the renewal of Lamine Yamal. While Yamal's is on the right track, Fati's departure still depends on contractual adjustments, but both parties agree that there will be white smoke in the coming days.

After years of overflowing expectations and untimely injuries, Ansu Fati seems to have understood that to be who he was again, he must first stop being who he is today at Barça.

Monaco is not a step backwards: it is a well-taken curve on a road that can still take him very far. Because sometimes, to return home as a star, you have to leave as a promise. Ansu Fati chooses to head to Ligue 1. Barça also approves of his departure.