What has been announced in recent days, finally happened. Barcelona continued a series of contract extensions with their young first team players, strengthening the generation they call “Dream teen”. Just like Pedri (signed by 2026), another young jewel, Ansu Fati, has signed his extension, which has an expiry date in 2027. The ‘new’ Messi (he took number 10 shirt) has an exit clause worth 129 billion Ksh which is the new policy in Barcelona for their future starts. The last big exit clause was for Neymar, 28 billion, and PSG paid for it, so now, the new sum is set.Dad Fati is beaming as son comes from nine-month injury hell to Barca’s Number 10Barcelona has already shown how much they believe in Fati’s future, when they allowed him to take Messi’s number 10, and it is believed that he will be the team leader in the future. The next task for the club’s management, chaired by Joan Laporta, will be to extend the cooperation with Osumane Dembele and Gavi, which will be the club’s priority in the near future.This is what @ANSUFATI said about renewing with Barça through the 2026/27 season:#DreamTeen pic.twitter.com/dcqhKgYfwU— FC Barcelona (@FCBarcelona) October 20, 2021 There were some hesitations about the new contract from Barcelona at one point for two reasons: first, it was the time when Messi left, and they couldn’t register the players, so they needed to reduce the wages first, and no extensions were planned, and secondly, Fati was coming out of the big injury. He experienced a nasty meniscus problem in November 2020, and had three surgeries since. With injury prone Dembele and Coutinho in their minds, the Catalonians wanted to be sure that they don’t set aside a large sum of money for another player who will sit in the ambulance most of the time. But, Fati’s agent was thinking the same, and wanted to secure a big money contract to his client (and a big provision for himself) as soon as possible, in case he turns out to be injury prone, so he pressured the club and even tried to lure other European giants to get interested in Fati. Luckly for all, the extension is now signed.Picking up the pieces: Barcelona to build a foundation for the future by extending Pedri, Gavi and FatiFati was born in Guinea-Bissau, and he came to Barcelona at the age of 10, after two years spent in the youth department of Seville. He signed his first professional contract on July 24, 2019, and it expired at the end of this season. He made his debut for Barcelona against Betis at the age of 16 years and 298 date, and thus became the second youngest debutant in the history of the club.
