Gavi formally extends at Barça with a loopy launch clause

FC Barcelona introduced on Wednesday the contract extension of Gavi, its younger 18-year-old nugget. The Masia-trained midfielder now has a €1 billion launch clause.

After its very massive summer season switch window, Barça shields considered one of its nuggets. Gavi (18) has formally prolonged his contract with FC Barcelona till 2026, with a launch clause amounting to… one billion euros.

The succession is assured

A pure product of La Masia, he already kinds with Pedri (19), who arrived from Las Palmas in 2019, a torchbearer duo that’s more likely to make FC Barcelona’s heyday for a number of years.

At 18 and 19 respectively, they have already got 134 skilled video games between them and are two cornerstones of Xavi’s system. Evidenced by their tenure Tuesday night time on the garden of the Allianz Area in opposition to Bayern Munich. They have been additionally each superb and will have completed the match with a number of assists on the clock, particularly if Robert Lewandowski had not proven shocking clumsiness.

The “Neymar” clause

Gavi’s contract features a launch clause which subsequently quantities to at least one billion euros, as in Pedri’s contract. The cleaning soap opera of Neymar’s departure from PSG in 2017 appears to have served as a lesson to Barça. To everybody’s shock, PSG had paid the 222 million of the Brazilian’s launch clause to enlist him. Since that day, FC Barcelona has sworn by no means to make the identical mistake once more, and shields all its gamers on the slightest alternative. Marc-André Ter Stegen, for instance, has a launch clause of 500M euros, like Franck Kessié and Andreas Christensen.