Ansu Fati has extended his contract with Barcelona until 2027, the club announced on Wednesday, shortly after their 1-0 victory over Dynamo Kiev in the Champions League.<\/p>\n
Fati, who has recently returned after almost a year out with a knee injury, will have a release clause in his new deal set at one billion euros.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cFC Barcelona and the player Ansu Fati have reached an agreement to renew his contract until 30 June 2027. The buy-out clause is set at 1 billion euros,\u201d a club statement read.<\/span><\/p>\n Fati, along with Spanish midfielder Pedri, is widely regarded as the most exciting talent in an emerging group of Barcelona youngsters.<\/span><\/p>\n The club\u2019s statement described Fati as \u201ccurrently one of football\u2019s hottest properties\u201d and \u201cone of the squad\u2019s players with the brightest future\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n After losing Lionel Messi to Paris Saint-Germain in the summer, the 18-year-old has taken the Argentinian\u2019s iconic number 10 shirt at Barca and his return from injury has lifted the mood in recent weeks.<\/span><\/p>\n He marked his comeback with a goal against Levante last month and scored his second of the season against Valencia on Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n The teenager, who turns 19 on October 31, is still being eased back to full fitness and began on the bench against Dynamo on Wednesday, presumably with a view to starting in the Clasico against Real Madrid at Camp Nou this weekend.<\/span><\/p>\n Born in Bissau, Fati joined La Masia in 2012 and made his debut for the first team in 2019, aged 16.<\/span><\/p>\n The forward has broken a series of records, including becoming the youngest ever Barcelona player to score in La Liga, score at Camp Nou and play in the Champions League.<\/span><\/p>\n Fati scored his first Champions League goal against Inter Milan aged 17, breaking a tournament record that had stood since 1997.<\/span><\/p>\n In total, he has made 47 appearances for Barcelona, scoring 15 goals.<\/span><\/p>\n AFP<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ansu Fati has extended his contract with Barcelona until 2027, the club announced on Wednesday, shortly after their 1-0 victory over Dynamo Kiev in the Champions League. Fati, who has recently returned after almost a year out with a knee injury, will have a release clause in his new deal set at one billion euros. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5613,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3404,588,586],"class_list":["post-5595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-andy-fati","tag-barcelona","tag-la-liga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5595"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5597,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5595\/revisions\/5597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}