{"id":109169,"date":"2025-08-01T02:57:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T02:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/109169\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T02:57:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T02:57:08","slug":"girona-willing-to-sign-barcelona-midfield-outcast-but-only-on-two-conditions-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/109169\/","title":{"rendered":"Girona willing to sign Barcelona midfield outcast but only on two conditions &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the month of August finally here, Barcelona must now intensify their efforts to reduce the salary bill as they <a href=\"https:\/\/barcauniversal.com\/barcelona-do-not-need-to-return-to-11-fair-play-rule-in-order-to-register-new-signings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">look to register new signings, Joan Garcia and Marcus Rashford<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One of the players earmarked for a departure is Oriol Romeu, who is no longer a part of Barcelona\u2019s plans after falling behind in the pecking order.<\/p>\n<p>Romeu is coming on the back of a season-long loan spell at Girona, who remain interested in acquiring his services on a permanent deal.<\/p>\n<p>Girona\u2019s conditions to sign Romeu<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/totcosta\/status\/1950987325564952623\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Catalunya Radio<\/a>, Girona are ready to bring Romeu back to the club this summer, this time in a permanent deal.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Catalans are only considering a move for the veteran midfielder if Barcelona hand him a letter of freedom.<\/p>\n<p>A letter of freedom would essentially allow Romeu to leave the club for free, even though his contract at Camp Nou doesn\u2019t expire until 2026.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/girona-fc-v-villarreal-cf-la-liga-ea-sports-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Oriol Romeu\" class=\"wp-image-172480\"  \/>Return to Girona could be on the cards for Oriol Romeu. (Photo by Alex Caparros\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>Another key condition for Girona is that Romeu himself must settle for a lower salary if he is to rejoin the club.<\/p>\n<p>After moving to Barcelona two years back, Romeu has accustomed himself to a relatively higher salary package.<\/p>\n<p>But if he wants to join Girona, he must take a salary cut, as the club from Catalonia are not in a position to afford his current package at Bar\u00e7a.<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona, for their part, may consider the letter of freedom, considering the fact that Romeu wouldn\u2019t fetch too much in the transfer market anyway, given his age and receding form.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, it will be interesting to see how these two clubs negotiate and finalise the future of the veteran midfielder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the month of August finally here, Barcelona must now intensify their efforts to reduce the salary bill&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":109170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[1386,4444,5727,26825,69610,221,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-109169","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-barcelona","9":"tag-barcelona-news","10":"tag-fc-barcelona","11":"tag-girona","12":"tag-oriol-romeu","13":"tag-soccer","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114951267522805430","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}