{"id":34687,"date":"2026-06-04T14:09:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T14:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/34687\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T14:09:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T14:09:19","slug":"barcelona-hold-up-ansu-fatis-monaco-move-with-buy-back-clause-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/34687\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona Hold Up Ansu Fati\u2019s Monaco Move With Buy-Back Clause Demand"},"content":{"rendered":"

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FC Barcelona are currently stalling on Ansu Fati’s expected permanent transfer to AS Monaco because they want to maintain control over the forward by inserting a buyback clause into the deal, according to Mundo Deportivo.<\/p>\n

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FC Barcelona are currently stalling on Ansu Fati’s expected permanent transfer to AS Monaco because they want to maintain control over the forward by inserting a buyback clause into the deal, according to Mundo Deportivo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Market experts such as Fabrizio Romano have already reported<\/a> that the Ligue 1 outfit will exercise its $12.8 million (\u20ac11 million) buy option on Fati, who has agreed to join them<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The buy option was inserted when the La Masia product headed across the south of France to join Monaco on a loan deal last summer, which has proven successful for Fati.<\/p>\n

Fati has received the increased minutes he lacked under Hansi Flick<\/a>, while his 11 goals in 25 league outings helped Le Rocher qualify for the Conference League next term.<\/p>\n

Monaco want Fati to help them on the continent in 2026\/2027. And while reportedly<\/a> eliminating $19.8 million (\u20ac17 million) from the wage bill is important to Bar\u00e7a, who endeavor to return to the 1:1 under Financial Fair Play (FFP) limits, they\u2019re stalling for a reason.<\/p>\n

FC Barcelona want a buyback clause for Fati<\/p>\n

MD has contacted anonymous sources, who explained that Bar\u00e7a want \u201cto have the future of the homegrown player under control because they consider him an asset of greater economic value\u201d.<\/p>\n

This means inserting a buyback option into the permanent transfer\u2019s terms, or a percentage of a potential future sale so that there isn\u2019t criticism if Fati kicks on and is transferred for a premium.<\/p>\n

Football has a short memory. Yet we shouldn\u2019t forget that Fati is still only 23 and was the Lamine Yamal<\/a> of his day.<\/p>\n

Breaking through to the Bar\u00e7a first team in 2019 under Ernesto Valverde, he smashed a number of youngest goalscorer records for club and country in various competitions, and was given Lionel Messi<\/a>\u2019s number 10 shirt such was the confidence in his potential.<\/p>\n

A series of knee injuries blighted Fati\u2019s progress. Yet the Spaniard has confessed to being happy again in Monaco, and there is still a chance that he continues evolving.<\/p>\n

With a buyback option, Bar\u00e7a could bring him home one day, or at least make a profit if it\u2019s just a percentage of a future sale that gets hashed out at the negotiating table.<\/p>\n

As the Blaugrana have bought Anthony Gordon and also have Raphinha on the left wing, there is no place in Flick\u2019s squad for Ansu.<\/p>\n

Given he boasts an FC Barcelona contract until June 30, 2028, though, there\u2019s no risk of the Monaco talks breaking down and him leaving on a free for a third party yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FC Barcelona are currently stalling on Ansu Fati’s expected permanent transfer to AS Monaco because they want to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1893,9573,2303,92,223,930,11379,938,332,1866,94],"class_list":["post-34687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-barcelona","tag-ansu-fati","tag-anthony-gordon","tag-as-monaco","tag-barcelona","tag-fc-barcelona","tag-hansi-flick","tag-jorge-mendes","tag-lamine-yamal","tag-lionel-messi","tag-marc-casado","tag-raphinha"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}