{"id":298770,"date":"2025-10-13T02:15:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T02:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/298770\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T02:15:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T02:15:11","slug":"barcelona-captains-new-deal-will-put-him-alongside-clubs-top-earners-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/298770\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona captain&#8217;s new deal will put him alongside club&#8217;s top earners &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lavanguardia.com\/deportes\/fc-barcelona\/20251012\/11149310\/frenkie-de-jong-asi-nuevo-contrato-firmara-2029-barca-renovacion-eric-garcia-siguiente.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">La Vanguardia<\/a>, Frenkie de Jong\u2019s new gross salary after signing his contract renewal will now be in line with Raphinha and Pedri, estimated between \u20ac18 and \u20ac20 million per season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Notably, the agreement, which will officially be <a href=\"https:\/\/barcauniversal.com\/barcelona-heavyweight-will-sign-his-new-contract-until-2029-next-week-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">completed on October 15th<\/a>, extends the Dutch midfielder\u2019s stay at the club until June 2029.<\/p>\n<p>It must be noted that Barcelona have clarified that De Jong\u2019s new deal will not include any deferred payments.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The player has already received the pending amounts from his previous contract, meaning his new agreement will begin with a clean slate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This move marks the end of a long-running issue surrounding his salary adjustments, which stemmed from his contract renewal back in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The club and De Jong have maintained a strong relationship for several months, with both parties satisfied with how discussions have progressed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/fc-barcelona-v-real-sociedad-laliga-ea-sports-17-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Frenkie de Jong, Barcelona player\" class=\"wp-image-180297\"  \/>Frenkie de Jong will sign a new contract until 2029. (Photo by Alex Caparros\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>With this renewal, the 28-year-old will now be among the club\u2019s top earners, though still below rising star Lamine Yamal, who currently leads the wage chart with around \u20ac40 million gross per season.<\/p>\n<p>Strong relationship between the two<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona have been firm in stating that the new contract will not involve any delayed payments, unlike his previous deal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to club sources, the midfielder has already been compensated for the deferred wages from recent seasons, with those amounts being settled between last year and the current one.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the renewal, the remaining repayments that were initially scheduled to continue until 2026 will now be evenly spread across the additional three years in the new contract.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This ensures financial stability for both the club and the player while simplifying the wage structure moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>With his salary now aligned with the squad\u2019s top performers, Barcelona are looking ahead with a balanced and motivated group, at least until 2029.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to La Vanguardia, Frenkie de Jong\u2019s new gross salary after signing his contract renewal will now be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":298771,"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-298770","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\/115364451113879221","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298770","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=298770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}