Maybe Barcelona is in financial crisis, but it doesn’t mean that the European giants will tolerate everyting from anybody. Ilaix Moriba and his advisors saw an opportunity and went into negotiations with Barca over a new contract, but they overplayed. The talented youngster was told by president Laporta to sign the extension or he will be sold.Barcelona fear that Chelsea is the reason as to why talks with Ilaix Moriba aren’t progressing as planned. The English side would be in a position to offer the player up to three times the salary that Barça are able to offer him. [sport] pic.twitter.com/g05b8XhbIQ— barcacentre (@barcacentre) August 2, 2021 The Guinea born midfielder, often called ‘Spanish Paul Pogba’, due to his physicality and creativity has one year left on his current deal and he is playing the hard ball with Barcelona officials over an extension, but so far, he has been demoted to the B squad and even failed to record a single minute of football.##NAJAVA_MECA_5737608##President Joan Laporta was very direct when asked about the contract impasse with Moriba.”He has a year left and doesn’t want to renew. It’s a situation we don’t accept and we have to act. He’s a great player and, if he doesn’t renew, he knows he will have other solutions. We don’t want players, who we’ve made here at home, who don’t want to renew with a year left. He’s been given opportunities, but the club is above all and they can’t make this kind of move on us. I hope the situation can be recovered. I feel bad that he doesn’t recognise what we’ve done for him. We won’t let him leave for free. Whoever wants to leave is free to do so, but with some conditions. Unfortunately, that’s how it is” explained Laporta.The end of stalemate is near: Barca and Messi finally agree terms on a new contractAfter this statement, Moriba was demoted to Barcelona B, but didn’t even play. He will not be allowed to play either with the first team or the B team until his contract situation is resolved. In January 2019 Moriba signed his first professional contract, with a 64 million Ksh wage per year and a buyout clause set at 13 billion Ksh. It’s still not known if he asked for too much money, knowing that Chelsea offered three times more (as per reports), or that Barcelona just couldn’t afford that much, due to their financial problems, but as it stands, he will not be played for either A or B team until he signs. Or leaves for free in June 2022.
