{"id":112905,"date":"2025-08-02T12:03:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T12:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/112905\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T12:03:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T12:03:10","slug":"i-would-sign-him-tomorrow-al-ittihad-chief-ramon-planes-on-barcelonas-ronald-araujo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/112905\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I would sign him tomorrow\u2019 &#8211; Al-Ittihad chief Ramon Planes on Barcelona\u2019s Ronald Araujo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"oiZOid\">Former Barcelona chief <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barcablaugranes.com\/2025\/2\/5\/24359255\/i-have-to-ask-al-ittihad-chief-ramon-planes-talks-frenkie-de-jong-interest-and-unai-hernandez-move\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ramon Planes has made no secret of the fact<\/a> that he\u2019s been eyeing the club\u2019s stars since moving to the Saudi Pro League with Al-Ittihad.<\/p>\n<p id=\"lLDPaB\">Planes has now said that he would love to snap up Ronald Araujo if he became available as he thinks so highly of the Uruguay international.<\/p>\n<p id=\"odKeGQ\">\u201cI would sign him tomorrow. He\u2019s one of the best center backs in the world,\u201d he told Marca.<\/p>\n<p id=\"0iBJNt\">Araujo has been linked with a move away from Barcelona this summer, but it does appear he will stay at the club.<\/p>\n<p id=\"J3razB\">Juventus had been mentioned as possible admirers but a move to the Serie A side has failed to materialise.<\/p>\n<p id=\"5CIMtI\">Yet there\u2019s still talk that Barcelona could make one more sale before the window closes for financial reasons.<\/p>\n<p id=\"j0LlXA\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.barcablaugranes.com\/2025\/6\/22\/24453553\/deco-confirms-barcelona-defender-amid-ronald-araujo-andreas-christensen-exit-talk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Deco has also said that one of Barca\u2019s center-backs need to leave<\/a>, fuelling speculation that either Araujo or Andreas Christensen could be sold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Barcelona chief Ramon Planes has made no secret of the fact that he\u2019s been eyeing the club\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":112906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[30014,1392,1394,1386,1396,2618,1395,10082,2617,204,10200,2773,71336,5824,66643,24685,1391,196,1409,221,62,14825,67,132,68,10198],"class_list":{"0":"post-112905","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-al","9":"tag-araujo","10":"tag-barca","11":"tag-barcelona","12":"tag-barcelona-la-liga","13":"tag-barcelona-team-news","14":"tag-blaugranes","15":"tag-chief","16":"tag-fc-barcelona-transfer-rumors-news","17":"tag-front-page","18":"tag-him","19":"tag-i","20":"tag-ittihad","21":"tag-on","22":"tag-planes","23":"tag-ramon","24":"tag-ronald","25":"tag-s","26":"tag-sign","27":"tag-soccer","28":"tag-sports","29":"tag-tomorrow","30":"tag-united-states","31":"tag-unitedstates","32":"tag-us","33":"tag-would"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114959076805812423","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112905","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=112905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}