Messi983
Senior Member
Deulofeu's current contract expires in 2019. Even if his clause would be 100M and if he'll play good next season with our history of selling players I don't believe we'd be able to get more than 20M for him. If he'll play bad then we'll be happy to even recuperate 12M we paid for him. But if we renew his contract now until let's say 2021 and he won't work out we'll probably just have to loan him out for the rest of his contract while paying part of his wages. That's why I wouldn't renew his contract (give him more money and add more years) now just to raise his clause. I doubt he'll be worth 20M for other teams next year and if he'll be then I'd just take that money and use it to buy a better player. If he'll become an important player for us we can negotiate his contract during the season or next summer.
I know people are scared about our players low release clauses after what happened with Neymar but I'm not. Players that are happy and wants to stay here can have 1€ clause and they won't leave. Players that wants to leave can have 500M release clause and we'll eventually let them leave for 10-20 times less than that because we are not P$G prison to keep players against their will.
About Roberto: I think he will get a new contract over the next few months. But he'll get a renewal because his importance within the team is growing and we want to reward him and not because we'd be affraid to lose him so we'd have to give him a higher clause to prevent that. He had many opportunities to leave but he decided to stay, fight for his chances and use them the best he could even if he had to play 5 or 6 different positions. There is no way he'd leave now that he's not only part of the first team but can also establish himself as our starter and he's also liked and respected between teammates and fans.
