When RB Leipzig sensed the interest from Barcelona, they prepared a new contract for Dani Olmo. According to the new deal, the Spanish offensive player should have stayed at the club until the summer of 2027 and earn around 5,500,000 euros. It seemed that the Catalans had lost the battle, that the child of Barcelona’s famous La Masia school would not (for some time) return to Camp Nou.However, Barcelona did not give up, they kept trying and created a good basis to hire the guy who arrived at RB Leipzig from Dinamo Zagreb in a transfer worth 29,000,000 euros in the summer. Max Eberl and his associates are not giving up, but are now more pragmatic.##NAJAVA_MECA_7134980##Last winter the Red Bulls didn’t even want to hear about the option of parting, it could be heard that the Spanish national team player will stay until the end of the contract even if that meant Leipzig would get nothing for him. Now they are already thinking in a different direction. However, the youngest Bundesliga club still hopes that an agreement will be reached with the player to sign a new contract.They’re just not exclusive anymore…”Our goal is for the talks with Olmo to reach a positive outcome,” said Max Eberl and pointed out that the Spaniard’s departure without compensation is no longer an option.”That’s not the scenario we’re dealing with. We are thinking in a completely different direction”.Mundo Deportivo wrote that Dani Olmo met with Xavi during the World Cup in Qatar, and that they discussed his potential return to Camp Nou. But also that Barcelona are closer to the idea of him signing for the Catalan club as a free agent in the summer of 2024.🚨🚨✅| JUST IN: FC Barcelona have asked Dani Olmo to NOT renew his contract with RB Leipzig! The club wants to sign him for free in 2024.@martinezferran [🎖️] pic.twitter.com/5QmUJlgyh5— Managing Barça (@ManagingBarca) March 26, 2023 RB Leipzig are trying to prevent that, they have intensified negotiations with the player and his representatives regarding a new contract. They want to keep him, so that they are not at a big disadvantage, but also because Christopher Nkunku and Konrad Leimer will leave the team. And next summer the contracts of Yussuf Poulsen, Lukas Klostermann and Kevin Kampl expire. And there is no indication that they will be extended, at least for now.
