Friday 10 October 2008

Xavi could be offered contract for life

Catalan sports paper Sport claims that Barcelona officials will soon meet with Iván Corretja, the agent of Barcelona midfielder and Spanish international Xavi (28), to talk about a contract renewal of the player (read more here).

Barcelona would consider to offer Xavi a contract extension until the year 2013 or 2014, that would include a pay rise that, as a reward for his performance and his loyalty to the club, would place the Catalan midfielder amongst the best paid players of the squad.

The plan would be that Xavi, whose current contract expires in the summer of 2010, retires playing for Barcelona and will then become a member of the technical staff. Xavi could sign his new contract in the next two weeks.

Catalan sports paper El Mundo Deportivo claims that Xavi will at least be offered an extension until 2012. The renewal negotiations are already underway for a while and an agreement could be announced in the coming weeks.

Inter Milan would meanwhile again be interested in Xavi, with manager José Mourinho wanting to bring the player to Italy (read more
here).

Read more:
Puyol, Xavi and Valdes offered to renew until 2014
Xavi: "There's no bigger Barcelona fan than me"
First renewal talks with Xavi

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

And how he deserves it!

Anonymous said...

Wld be glad for him and the team. Fantastic player

Anonymous said...

I hope this comes true. He has definetly earned it.

Anonymous said...

Xavi is the Barca-man for life so of course he will retire in Barca.

Més que un club!!!

Àlex said...

ASAP

Knives Out said...

This is a great initiative by Barca. Xavi is a very special player, and he deserves it and much more.

Anonymous said...

Does anyone know a list of best paid players in Barca?

Dan R said...

Barcelona = Xavi = Catalan Spirit

Anonymous said...

Hey Pep,

Do you have a resource for finding out player salaries? For example, what the salary on a standard B-team contract?

pep said...

I'm not really following the player salaries, James, it's just too difficult to get reliable information. You don't know if it's net or not. You have a fixed part and incentives.

About the B team players: I just read that Busquets would now now earn 30 000 euro a year.

Anonymous said...

No way Xavi is going to inter so get it out of your head Mourinho

barca nike said...

He is the best midfielder in the world. He deserves it.

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