Fermín López renews with Barça until 2029

The Spanish international midfielder will have a clause of 500 million euros

The Spanish player Fermín López renewed this Thursday with FC Barcelona for the next five seasons after signing a new contract until 2029 and with a termination clause of 500 million euros, a very high figure that reflects the value that the international midfielder has right now. for the Blaugrana club and also for its current coach, the German Hansi Flick.

“FC Barcelona and first team player Fermín López have reached an agreement to renew his contract, which will bind him with the club until June 30, 2029. The termination clause is set at 500 million euros” , announced the Blaugrana club in a statement.

Fermín signed his new contract this Thursday at noon in a private event with the president of FC Barcelona, ​​Joan Laporta, the first vice president, Rafa Yuste, the director responsible for youth football, Joan Soler, and the club’s sports director, Deco.

“To talk about Fermín is to talk about character, personality and excellent technical quality. Also about progression,” says the Blaugrana club. A Fermín who has recently returned to the team after missing the start of the season due to an injury suffered in the summer, after playing with Spain in EURO 2024 and the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, in which he won the gold medal, and not have rest

Despite this, the number ’16’ has already played 6 games – 5 in LaLiga EA Sports and 1 in the ‘Champions’ – with 2 goal assists for his teammates, both in the Champions League match against Bayern Munich, which finished 4-1 for Barça, who also won in the Clásico at the Bernabéu (0-4) with 45 minutes of play for the team from El Campillo.

Fermín, however, missed 7 games this season due to an injury to the rectus femoris of his right leg suffered in mid-September. Now he is once again taking on an important role in the team, with Flick on the bench, similar to his emergence last season with Xavi Hernández, when he played 42 games – 31 in the League, 8 in the Champions League, 2 in the Cup del Rey and 1 from the Spanish Super Cup–.

In total, last year, he scored 11 goals in his first full year in the Blaugrana first team, which he joined after passing through Linares on loan in the previous 2022/23 campaign. But Fermín López, just 21 years old, arrived at La Masia in 2016 to be part of the Infantil A team.

Since then he has risen through the ranks of Blaugrana youth football. In the 2021/22 season he was part of the Juvenil A team that won the League and UEFA Youth League double, before that loan to Linares Deportivo where he was his team’s top scorer, despite being a midfielder, with 12 goals and 4 assists. .

Explosive midfielder, with a lot of physical display despite measuring 1.74 metres, the young Blaugrana footballer takes over the pitch as soon as he takes to the pitch. Furthermore, his goals coming from the second line, or assists after tireless struggles like the one he gave to Robert Lewandowski in the duel against Bayern, are the trademark of a Fermín who renews until 2029 and who will seek to be even more of a protagonist in Can Barça .