Jordi Alba Set To Sign New Contract At Barca

By Joshua Walters

Barcelona defender Jordi Alba is set to sign a new deal which is expected to run out in 2024.

Negotiations, over the past weeks, have moved faster with both parties said to be making headway in the agreement of the new terms. 

Barcelona delayed initially in presenting the left-back with a new deal, forcing the player to voice out his frsutrations over the development since he saw himself as an important player for the club.

Sports reported that Barcelona are now ready to cmmit the player to another deal, and said club president, Josep Mario Barytomeu, is speeding up the process as he wish to compolet the negotiations before the end of the ongoing season.

Jordi Alba is expected to sign the dotted lines to a five-year deal, barring any development contrary to the negotiation.

Alba, 29, started contract extension talks with the club in November last year, and reports indicate that the Spaniard has now agreed to the content of the new deal. 

Alba joined Barcelona from Valencia in 2012 on a five-year contract for a transfer fee of €14 million. 

The former youth player of the club has been an integral figure since joining the first team as he has played twenty-four LaLiga games and scored one goal, excluding seven assists, and a goal in six Champions League appearances this season.

Alba spent seven years at the club’s youth side, La Masia, between 1998-2005, before joining Cornella and also Valencia.