Barcelona president Joan Laporta said that teenage talent Dro Fernandez's decision to leave the club for a planned move to Paris Saint-Germain, despite having previously agreed a new deal with the Catalan giants, was "unpleasant".
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Barcelona president Joan Laporta said that teenage talent Dro Fernandez’s decision to leave the club for a planned move to Paris Saint-Germain, despite having previously agreed a new deal with the Catalan giants, was “unpleasant”.
Central midfielder Dro, 18, is poised to join French giants PSG, with Spanish media reporting that they will pay Barca slightly more than his six-million-euro ($7 million) release clause as a goodwill gesture.
“We will speak when it’s all done, it has been an unpleasant situation,” Laporta told Catalunya Radio late on Sunday.
“It came as a surprise because we had agreed on a different solution for when he turned 18,” continued the Barca chief.
“Surprisingly, his representative told us he couldn’t follow through on what we’d agreed to.”
Laporta indicated that Barca would be able to “change the situation as it was presented” to them, seemingly referring to receiving up to 8.5 million euros for Dro from PSG, rather than the figure stipulated in his release clause.
