Despite being one of the most important members of the current FC Barcelona squad, the future of the Uruguayan defender Ronald Araujo has been up in the air for the last few months.
The German club Bayern Munich have strongly been linked with the 25-year-old defender in recent months, and there were reports of an unsuccessful operation from the German champions for the Barcelona captain in the last winter window.
This topic was also discussed by the club president Joan Laporta as he gave an interview to Mundo Deportivo, which the Spanish publication has not yet fully published but have shared some of its excerpts.
In one such excerpt, Laporta talked about the situation of the defender while clarifying that players who want to leave the club for higher wages will be allowed to leave without any resistance:
“Araujo is very integrated. The other day we premiered the ‘Orígens’ program for Barça One and I’m sure it won’t be one of those cases. Sometimes communication doesn’t quite reach where it needs to. I mean negotiations.”
When asked if he was optimistic that Araujo was going to stay at Barcelona, Laporta replied in the affirmative with some certainty. “And there I think this is already somehow resolved because there was some distortion when communicating everything we had in mind for Ronald.”
The President also shared his satisfaction with how Barcelona has improved in the last few years:
“Well, Bayern is as it is. Here we always say that Barça is doing badly and Barça is doing well. But it seems that by repeating it so much, it ends up being what it is not. Barça is doing well, much better than it was.”
“We are in a process of economic recovery, and if some operations that we are developing end up bearing fruit, and I believe that shortly we will have good news in that regard, then we will once again have a healthy club. And a club that has a viable present and future economically.”
The full interview of the President is going to be published today by Mundo Deportivo, but these comments on Ronald Araujo already provide an interesting glimpse into how things are developing inside the club.
