Ronald Araujo and Mikel Arteta (Photograph by Michael Reaves, Alex Pantling/Getty Pictures)
Fabrizio Romano has said that Barcelona are “now satisfied” they’ll be holding defender Ronald Araujo this January regardless of hypothesis over his future.
The Uruguay worldwide has principally been a key participant for Barca lately, however there are additionally different choices in defence and evidently led to some doubt about his scenario.
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Arsenal have been then linked with Araujo in a latest report from Marca, nevertheless it now appears Romano is completely happy to rubber-stamp stories from elsewhere in regards to the participant trying set to remain put on the Nou Camp.
See beneath for particulars as Romano clarifies the most recent on Araujo’s scenario…
??? Barcelona are actually satisfied that Ronald Araújo will keep on the membership, not leaving in January!
New spherical of talks happened on Tuesday with director Deco concerned, as @ffpolo reveals.
Barça received the inexperienced gentle from Ronald to proceed on the membership regardless of Juventus efforts. pic.twitter.com/vBXw709trH
— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) January 15, 2025
Romano mentions Juventus additionally being interested by Araujo, however Arsenal don’t get a point out, so it stays to be seen how concrete these hyperlinks truly have been.
It’s fairly frequent to see varied names thrown round even when the curiosity isn’t that sturdy, however both method, the Gunners absolutely gained’t be getting Araujo in via the door any time quickly.
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Arsenal making a transfer for Araujo by no means actually made a lot sense anyway, in reality, because it’s arduous to see the place the 25-year-old would have slot in in Mikel Arteta’s aspect.
AFC have already got the superb pairing of William Saliba and Gabriel Magalhaes, and so they can even name upon others like Ben White, Jurrien Timber, Riccardo Calafiori and Jakub Kiwior to play there if wanted.
Even when Araujo is a positive participant and maybe an intriguing market alternative, there appears little sense in bringing in an enormous title like this solely to depart him on the bench.
Araujo himself additionally absolutely wouldn’t settle for leaving an enormous membership like Barcelona simply to develop into a squad participant, so maybe this is the reason he’s finally trying set to remain the place he’s in the meanwhile.