MERINO HAS ALWAYS LIKED ME AT FC BARCELONA
Option for Barça's midfield! Mikel Merino's renewal, stalled
Published:11/03/2024 - 19:42h
Updated:11/03/2024 - 19:51h
FC Barcelona is looking for options to reinforce its squad at zero cost. In that sense, Mikel Merino, who apparently refuses to renew his contract with Real Sociedad, could be an interesting option to strengthen the Barça midfield in 2025
Everything seems to indicate that the continuity of Mikel Merino in the Real Sociedad luce increasingly complicated. The native of Pamplona, current referent of the combined 'txuri-urdin', being the captain and adding more than 200 meetings contested, finishes his contractual links with the picture 'blanquiazul' on 30 June 2025. In front of this, as it informed in 'Sports COPE Gipuzkoa', the negotiations to clear his renewal with the Basque institution seem to have arrived to a deadlock.
Equally, the referred source sustains that the company of representation of the player, International Bay, has opted by not answering to the proposals of renewal issued by the Real Sociedad until it ensure a square in a European competition for the next campaign. Even if it attains this aim, the continuity of the midfield player navarro in the square that does life in Anoeta is not ensured.
This stage opens the door to that several clubs of elite in Europe see increased his aspirations to incorporate to his staff to the mediocentro of 27 years. At present, Merino has a clause of rescission of 60 M€, but because of the refusal of renewal by part of the international Spanish, could arise two options to facilitate his exit: the donostiarras could opt by a transfer with economic conditions more flexible not to lose by complete the profits to financial level that would suppose the sale of one of his players insignia, or could allow that his agreement expire completely and leave it leave next summer without cost any.
Mikel Merino, real option for the FC Barcelona?
Precisely, this last stage would be the most convenient for the FC Barcelona, that because of his delicate financial situation is opting for making incorporations without cost. Under this premise, Mikel Merino could go back to be in the diary of the Barcelona picture, as it was it previously during the period of Ronald Koeman. It values his qualities like player experienced, that combines a good physical deployment and an excellent technical in the exit of balloon, with a big vision of game and a remarkable tactical intelligence. All these attributes are important to reinforce the centre of the field of the club culé.
