{"id":162639,"date":"2025-08-21T02:15:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T02:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/162639\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T02:15:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T02:15:09","slug":"deco-meets-barcelona-captains-new-agent-to-finalise-renewal-until-2028-with-option-for-another-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/162639\/","title":{"rendered":"Deco meets Barcelona captain&#8217;s new agent to finalise renewal until 2028 with option for another year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/barcauniversal.com\/barcelona-midfield-heavyweight-secures-a-new-agent-initial-talks-held-with-club-over-renewal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">As reported earlier today<\/a>, Barcelona midfielder and captain Frenkie de Jong has fully broken off ties with his former agent, Ali Dursun, and joined forces with a new representative.<\/p>\n<p>With the Dutchman\u2019s contract renewal a pressing matter that Bar\u00e7a intend to resolve soon, initial talks have taken place with his new agent.<\/p>\n<p>Fresh meeting with Deco and De Jong\u2019s agent to finalise renewal<\/p>\n<p>Now, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elchiringuitotv\/status\/1958169485078106273\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jose Alvarez on El Chiringuito TV<\/a>, a fresh meeting took place between Barcelona director Deco and De Jong\u2019s new agent, Sebastien Delure, to finalise his contract renewal.<\/p>\n<p>De Jong\u2019s current deal runs out in under a year, on June 30, 2026. The plan is for him to sign a new extension until the summer of 2028 with an option for a further year embedded in the agreement.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"625\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/fc-barcelona-v-fc-internazionale-milano-uefa-champions-league-2024-25-semi-final-first-leg-1024x625..jpeg\" alt=\"BARCELONA, SPAIN - APRIL 30: Frenkie de Jong of FC Barcelona during the UEFA Champions League 2024\/25 Semi Final First Leg match between FC Barcelona and FC Internazionale Milano at Estadi Olimpic Lluis Companys on April 30, 2025 in Barcelona, Spain. (Photo by Carl Recine\/Getty Images)\" class=\"wp-image-174973\"  \/>Contract extension getting closer. (Photo by Carl Recine\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>De Jong has had ups and downs throughout his time at Barcelona, but has always remained committed to succeeding at the club.<\/p>\n<p>Despite speculations over his future and some issues with the board, the 28-year-old has always maintained that he wished to stay put at the club.<\/p>\n<p>As such, a renewal was always likely to go through, with both parties having been in wait for the player to part ways with his former agent, Dursun.<\/p>\n<p>Now that it is done, things are progressing in the right direction with De Jong\u2019s new representative, Delure, meeting with Deco to further negotiations and finalise the player\u2019s new contract.<\/p>\n<p>Like with Jules Kounde\u2019s recent contract renewal, De Jong\u2019s extension, should it be finalised in the coming days, could help Barcelona in terms of easing the Fair Play burden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As reported earlier today, Barcelona midfielder and captain Frenkie de Jong has fully broken off ties with his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":162640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[1386,4444,5727,17372,221,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-162639","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-frenkie-de-jong","12":"tag-soccer","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115064348979700402","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162639","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=162639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}