‘Esport3’ de Catalunya reveals that the economic proposal of the Parisian team sent to the Spanish-Ecuadorian defense is close to 200,000 euros per year.
The central defender Diego Almeida Crespo, who last Friday made his Ecuadorian nationality registration, continues to be the center of attention in Spain, his country of birth.
According to a report on Monday Esport3, from Catalunya, FC Barcelona tries to retain its 17-year-old player, who plays for Juvenil A, before the proposal he received from Paris Saint-Germain and another from Bayer Leverkusen.
The one born in Rubí, but of Ecuadorian parents, has a current contract with Barça until June 2023. The club, however, faced with the siege of PSG and Leverkusen has rushed a new contract to renew the defender’s bond and thus ensure that continue in the institution.
The news is reported by the Catalan media at the gates of Almeida’s first call-up to the Ecuadorian national team for the international friendly on Saturday, December 4, against El Salvador, in the American city of Houston.
“Diego Almeida has become one of the fashionable players in the Barça youth academy. The central defender, of Ecuadorian origin but born in Rubí, has recently received the call with the South American senior team, news that has increased the interest of some European clubs to sign him. A) Yes, PSG has sent him an economic proposal that is close to 200,000 euros per year (226,342 dollars) and it would substantially increase his current income at Barça. The French entity has also communicated to its representative, Rodrigo Messi, the intention of paying the training clause to the Barcelona team, “he said on Monday Esport3.
PSG’s interest in signing the Spanish-Ecuadorian was revealed by journalist Ivan San Antonio, from the newspaper Sport Barcelona, on November 17, through a note in the digital version of that newspaper.
“PSG, always attentive to everything that moves in Barcelona, has tempted the player with a great offer that improves the record of the player, born in Rubí 17 years ago. The Parisians want to repeat the operation that they already carried out with Xavi Simons and Kais Ruiz in their day and have presented a future project to the culé youth squad with the aim of taking him to France “, said the communicator, while expressing an alleged interest” from Italy ”for Almeida’s file.
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The 17-year-old footballer has already been examined by the culé coach Xavi Hernández during a training session with the first team, along with six other elements from Juvenil A, four members of Barça B and those from the squad led by Xavi, Iñaki Peña, Clément Lenglet , Samuel Umtiti, Óscar Mingueza, Riqui Puig and Luuk de Jong.
After that first casting At Xavi’s orders, the Rubí boy’s environment told EL UNIVERSO: “Diego loved it. It was a nice experience training with Xavi. The important thing is that he already knows that there is an Almeida on the squad ”.
Esport3 has said that, “faced with this situation” (proposals from PSG and Bayer Leverkusen), FC Barcelona summoned Diego Almeida’s representative “to offer him a counterproposal in the form of a new contract that will make him forget those external siren songs”.
And he adds: “The culé sports area has made him see that his future would happen rather by playing as a right back -in fact, last weekend he already did it with Juvenil A-, and that in this position they see options for him growth and that, even, they would study the possibility that this summer did the preseason with the first team ”.
The agent of the Spanish-Ecuadorian Almeida is Rodrigo Messi, head of the Kin Sport Management agency, based in Spain. (D)
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