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Barcelona s best central defender, challenging the club s bottom line, 60 million is not easy to sell this summer

2:52am, 11 May 2025【Football】

The semi-finals between Barcelona and Inter Milan showed us the two most classic semi-finals of this season. In the last three minutes, Barcelona was tied by Inter Milan and then defeated. To be honest, Barcelona has made great progress this season, but losing in this way can still see the instability of Barcelona's defense line. Frick didn't have many ways either.

Next season, Barcelona must strengthen the stability of the defense line, and signings are essential, but due to the salary cap and salary restrictions, Barcelona must sell some of its existing personnel. Barcelona's best central defender is challenging the club's bottom line, and it is not easy to sell 60 million this summer.

In this semi-final between Barcelona and Inter Milan, the last two goals conceded are inseparable from the defense line. The most important thing is that Barcelona is exactly the same as missing the promotion last season, and the same mistakes happen to one person, which is Araujo.

In fact, in the last season, Araujo's low-level mistakes had already made Barcelona unable to bear it, so Barcelona hoped to sell Araujo. Fans may not be forgiven for Araujo's low-level mistakes, but last season, by accident, Araujo was injured, which led to the inability to sell. At that time, Bayern said that he could buy Araujo for 80 million euros. When Barcelona was negotiating a deal with Bayern, Araujo was suddenly injured, which brought the transaction to an abrupt end.

It was also because of this injury that Araujo and Barcelona chose to renew their contracts, because after seeing Araujo's injury, other teams could only negotiate a deal after recovering from injury. This time, Araujo's contract renewal came and encountered the same ending as last season's Champions League match.

Araujo once again gave the opponent two goals due to a low-level mistake, which caused Barcelona to miss the finals. Araujo once again challenged the club's bottom line. In fact, Araujo also hoped to leave, because Barcelona's salary to Araujo did not meet the players' satisfaction, so there was a delaying plan to renew the contract.

Because there is one clause, that is, there are 10 days this summer, Araujo's liquidated damages will be reduced to 60 million euros. This is a very good opportunity for many teams that want to buy Araujo, and Barcelona also hopes to use the 60 million liquidated damages to allow Araujo to leave smoothly, and Araujo's agent will also use these 10 days to find the next home for Araujo.

But in this current situation, Araujo's low-level mistakes in the Champions League may have made many teams lose interest in him. Moreover, after many injuries, Arauho's reaction is obviously not as good as before. Now he can only watch his opponent pass by him. Arauho can only use his hands to block his opponent. Apart from this, there seems to be no good way.

Summary

Araujo, who was previously known as the best central defender of Barcelona, ​​used his low-level performance to challenge the club's bottom line in both Champions League matches. After Barcelona's end of this season, he had already made up his mind to sell Araujo. But the penalty of 60 million euros is probably not easy to sell now.