Sevilla, a new alternative for Oriol Romeu in the summer market

Published New:9/07/2025 - 01:08h

Updated New:9/07/2025 - 01:08h

Sevilla could go for Oriol Romeu this summer. The midfielder, who returns to Barça after a year on loan at Girona, is a definite discard for Hansi Flick. What will his next team be?

Oriol Romeu could add a new team to the list of possible destinations for 2025/26. The latest information about the FC Barcelona midfielder points to the interest of Sevilla in signing him, waiting to see if the Catalan player terminates or not his contract with the azulgrana team.

The player from Ulldecona has one year left on his contract, but Hansi Flick does not count on him for next season. The coaching staff has the pivot position well covered with Frenkie de Jong, Marc Bernal and Marc Casadó, so Oriol, for the second consecutive summer, is left without a place in the culé squad.

In that sense, being a veteran player (he will turn 34 in September) and with a low salary (3.5 million gross), it is likely that the club will decide to release him to speed up his departure. This scenario would allow Sevilla to approach the operation much more easily.

Girona, main rival of Sevilla for Oriol Romeu

For now, the Seville team has the Frenchman Lucien Agoumé and the Serbian Nemanja Gudelj for the pivot position. However, the club's new coach, Matías Almeida, prefers to incorporate another defensive midfielder and the chosen one could be Romeu.

In addition, the Catalan player has the option of returning to Girona, where he played on loan last season. Although some physical problems diminished his performance, Míchel wants to recover him this summer, as he is one of his trusted men on the field.

In Montilivi, however, they don't seem willing to pay a transfer fee for Oriol, this being his last year of contract. The 'albirrojos' sent him to Barça in 2023 in exchange for 3.4 'kilos', but the midfielder could not win a starting place with Xavi Hernández on the bench.

After the farewell of the Egarense and the arrival of Hansi Flick, the German preferred to rely on Bernal and Casadó as alternatives to De Jong, after the board gave up on the possibility of going for players like Joshua Kimmich or Martín Zubimendi.

Oriol Romeu will return to Barça next week

Whatever Oriol Romeu's destination, for now the Ulldecona player is still a Barça player and, therefore, the club has called him up to undergo medical tests along with the rest of the squad next Sunday.

Although he is a definite discard, the midfielder will be able to train at the Ciutat Esportiva during the first two weeks of the culé pre-season, although outside the group.

Being a definite discard, he will logically not be part of the Asian tour, but the board hopes to resolve his departure soon to free up another spot in the squad. Will Sevilla be Romeu's next destination or will he return to Montilivi for a third season?