{"id":2591,"date":"2026-09-11T15:27:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T15:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/?p=2591"},"modified":"2026-09-11T15:27:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T15:27:22","slug":"barcelona-in-advanced-negotiations-over-five-year-renewal-for-la-masia-midfielder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/?p=2591","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona in advanced negotiations over five-year renewal for La Masia midfielder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Having announced the contract renewal of Hamza Abdelkarim earlier today, <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/barcelona-5\">FC Barcelona<\/a> are now moving ahead swiftly in their bid to secure the future of another promising youngster, <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/player\/brian-farinas-553268\">Brian Farinas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>After all, Farinas is now a first-team player with a senior registration in <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/competition\/laliga-10\/fixtures\">La Liga<\/a> and the No. 4 shirt, previously worn by Ronald Araujo.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Now, according to journalist <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MatteMoretto\/status\/2098421382451261521\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Matteo Moretto<\/a>, Barcelona are in advanced negotiations to renew Farinas\u2019 contract by five more years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Now, it is believed that the conversations between the two parties are in an advanced stage, and an agreement is getting closer, which would see Farinas commit his future to Bar\u00e7a beyond 2030.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>This represents a major turnaround of fortunes for Farinas, considering that he was very close to leaving Barcelona in the summer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Indeed, the <em>La Masia<\/em> midfielder appeared set to sign for Girona earlier in the summer before manager Hansi Flick pulled the plug on the deal, following Frenkie de Jong\u2019s injury at the World Cup.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Having seen him closely during the pre-season, the German tactician was won over by the youngster and decided to keep him in the squad as part of his plans for the season.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>New deal imminent for Farinas. (Photo by Timothy Rogers\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>This also meant that Bar\u00e7a decided to part ways with Tommy Marques, who had been in the first-team dynamics for most of the last season.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Farinas has yet to make his official first-team debut for Barcelona but he has been named in the matchday squad for four of five matches this season in all competitions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>But Bar\u00e7a see him as an important prospect for the future and are all set to secure his long-term future at the club.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/news\/barcelona-in-advanced-negotiations-over-five-year-renewal-for-la-masia-midfielder-43441887\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having announced the contract renewal of Hamza Abdelkarim earlier today, FC Barcelona are now moving&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2Fv22Fphotobooth2Fcms2Fen2F434418873Fdate2026-09-11.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}