BARCELONA – Barcelona announced this Tuesday to Matheus fernandes the termination of his contract, which linked him to the Barça club until June 2025 and for which he must pay compensation, the amount of which was not disclosed.
The 23-year-old Brazilian midfielder who arrived at Barça in August 2020 after playing half a season at Valladolid and after paying 7 million euros to Palmeiras, barely played 17 minutes under Ronald Koeman, who made it clear to him that He did not have his services and at the end of the course he openly asked the club to find a way out for him.
Barça put him on the market and the possibility of a loan was even raised, but the absence of offers led to the decision to terminate the player’s contract before officially ending the season, who will leave the Barça discipline without just having been presented and personalizing one of the most inexplicable operations of the last years in the club.
JUNIOR FIRPO SHIFT
That of Matheus, presented in his day as an aspiring successor to Sergio Busquets and whose permanence in Barcelona has been completely invisible, it is the second exit made by the club, after the transfer of Jean-Clair Todibo to Nice, and it aims not to be the last one to take place in the coming days.
In this sense, there are “advanced negotiations” with Leeds United led by Marcelo Bielsa for the sale of Junior firpo and that it could be closed for 15 million euros.
Barça, which still has to face a final payment of the 18 million euros that its signing cost, will have to share a percentage of between 15 and 20 percent of the income with Betis, the club of origin in the summer 2019.