Barcelona have taken one other step in direction of securing Hamza Abdelkarim’s future, with Spanish journalist Juli Claramunt reporting that the Egyptian ahead’s agent met with the membership on Monday to proceed negotiations over an improved contract.
The talks come after Barça made clear plans to overtake Abdelkarim’s present settlement and dramatically improve his €15 million launch clause.
The membership needs that figure raised to €150 million, reflecting the speedy rise of a participant who completed pre-season as Barcelona’s main goalscorer.
But Abdelkarim has barely featured since aggressive soccer started. After three matches of the 2026/27 marketing campaign, he has performed simply 4 minutes for Hansi Flick’s first workforce.
Barcelona decided to guard Abdelkarim
As such, Flick has intentionally saved Abdelkarim away from the highlight whereas the switch window remained open.
His performances in pre-season had already attracted consideration, and Barcelona have been unwilling to show themselves to the potential for one other membership triggering a launch clause that was utterly out of line together with his rising worth.
Merely put, Barcelona wished to keep away from Abdelkarim exploding onto the scene in official matches earlier than his contractual scenario had been addressed.
The membership had already planned an improvement, however the depth of the ultimate days of the switch window pushed the negotiations again.
With the market now closed, Barça can focus on securing the ahead’s place throughout the squad.
The proposed €150m launch clause would symbolize a 900% improve from the present €15m determine.
Al Ahly may obtain considerably extra money
There are additionally monetary situations connected to Abdelkarim’s transfer from Al Ahly that Barcelona should contemplate.
In accordance with WinWin (h/t SPORT), the Egyptian membership will obtain €750,000 as soon as Abdelkarim makes 5 official first-team appearances, supplied he performs at the very least 45 minutes in every match.
That quantity can rise by means of extra appearance-related funds to a most of €2m.
Al Ahly are additionally due €300,000 as soon as the ahead reaches 5 objectives, with additional bonuses probably taking that determine to €1.5m.
It’s to be famous that Barcelona initially paid €1.5m in mounted charges for the participant, that means the general value may finally attain €6.5m if each provision is triggered.
