Under thousands of calls, Barca finally officially announced the renewal of Araujo's contract, the 23-year-old Uruguayan rising star's contract, which will be extended from the original 2023 to 2026, while the liquidated damages will also rise to 1 billion euros. For this liquidated damages figure, I believe fans who do not know Barca will be surprised. After all, even if Araujo plays well, even if he plays his full talent potential, as a central defender, he will not be worthy of the 1 billion transfer fee. But in fact, this kind of operation of setting the amount of liquidated damages to hundreds of millions and billions of dollars is fully implemented by Real Madrid earlier, and at the same time, Barca has suffered two big losses for 2 consecutive years because the liquidated damages are not set high enough. Taking advantage of the big day of successfully renewing the contract against the new nuclear Araujo, let's unveil these 2 scars of Barcelona.
The first is that Neymar, who is more familiar to fans, was poached by Paris, and since bringing Neishao to Camp Nou at a high price in the summer of 2013, Barca has been extremely gracious to him, and he has also repaid the Rossandre with his constantly improving and transforming performance on the field. Because of this, he has naturally become messi's best successor, and this situation of being both loved and hand-picked as a future successor makes almost everyone think that Neymar will definitely play at Camp Nou for a long time, and the Barca management, which also holds this view, has not set too exaggerated figures in terms of liquidated damages. However, whether it was succumbing to money or trying to avoid Messi's front, in the end Neymar was forcibly poached because the liquidated damages were set too low.
Although he brought as much as 222 million euros to Barca, the team's team building plan was suddenly disrupted, and the helmsman Bartomeu also began a series of "big money" acts, dembele, Coutinho and Griezmann alone, three blind and watery big purchases, allowing Barca to pay a huge amount of 400 million euros. So looking back now, Neymar's forcible poaching is the source of Barca's collapse and the beginning of the funny route. Then the second time I lost money due to the low penalty setting, it actually happened 1 year later. Umtiti, who joined Barca in 2016, has received attention from a number of giants, including Manchester United, in 2018 with two outstanding performances. Barca didn't need to worry too much or even take action on this, as Umtiti's contract didn't expire until the summer of 2021, so it wouldn't be too late to negotiate a contract extension a year later.
However, the bad is that in the Umtiti contract, the amount of liquidated damages was only 60 million euros, and this price was dug up to earn, to know that at that time, Umtiti's value valuation was already sixty or seventy million, and Van Dijk had just created a new record of more than 80 million center-back transfer fees in the winter window. As a result, Barca had to agree to the player's large salary increase request, send a big package contract, and use it to increase the liquidated damages to 500 million euros. As a result, Umtiti, who played in the World Cup with an injury, opened the super glassman mode, and Barca also suffered a huge loss. From the current point of view, if there was no 60 million liquidated damages at that time, then Barca would not need to rush to a salary increase to renew, and if they can wait a little longer, then after the outbreak of Umtiti's injury, Barca will not send the renewal package that made the team usher in a huge loss.