Barcelona are growing increasingly concerned about Chelsea’s interest in their central defender Ronald Araujo, according to well placed sources at Catalan paper Sport.
They claim that the Uruguayan loves Barcelona, and is happy to stay – but that as it stands, Chelsea are offering twice what the Blaugrana are to sign up the defender long term.
It still seems likely he stays put, but the pressure Chelsea are applying from their end will create plenty of doubt about his future.
Araujo has grown from a good prospect to a really solid player over the last 12 months of being thrown in at the deep end in a difficult time at Barcelona, and he probably sees his development best served by staying put at the club where he has risen through the ranks.
But money talks, and if the rumours are true, there’s no way he will be able to turn down sign a massive wage hike.
