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A few years ago, when asked FC Barcelona specialists who were going to be the next big defender of the club, the majority of the answers led us to Ronald Araujo. Imposing, powerful, strong, strong in duels, the defender trained in Boston River in Uruguay and arrived at the Masia to perfect his formation had a profile which was quite rare within the Academy and the Barça staff was already rubbing his hands. And it must be said that his first steps in the first team clearly went in this direction, impressive everyone and stirring as one of the executives of the Xavi team.
Only, today, the time when Araujo was considered to be the present and the future of Barça as the central defender is over. Pau Cubarsi passed to him in front and composes the central hinge holder alongside íñigo Martínez, author of an excellent season. Worse still, the defender of the Celeste even seems to have passed fourth in the hierarchy, since Eric Garcia has the favors of Hansi Flick lately as a lining of Cubarsi and Martinez. Tuesday evening, opposite Borussia Dortmund, Araujo therefore had the opportunity to get back on the right path, but he still missed. Fragile, slow, and author of a disastrous clearance which allowed Guirassy to score the third goal, Araujo made a very bad copy.
The match against PSG, a turning point in the history of Araujo at Barça
Inevitably, he is criticized in the Catalan press. “Match like that of Dortmund highlight the crisis of confidence that the Uruguayan is going through. The most worrying is that it is small in places where it has always been dominant, namely the surface. He is fragile on those who are his strengths ”explains for example Sportwhich adds that Flick tries as best they can to recover his best version. In Catalonia, it is estimated that Araujo's profile is not necessarily compatible with what the German is waiting for by its defenders. He finds it difficult to defend without a ball, to position himself higher and he also has less qualities on the foot than the other players who evolve in this post at Barça.
Since this match against PSG in the quarter -final return last season, during which he had been expelled, he never found the level hers. As if he had not looked up since, not helped by the physical seeds moreover. A drop in level combined with many rumors about its future which annoyed more than one in Barcelona, with an interminable soap opera which ended with an extension until 2031 … but with a low release clause, estimated at 65 million euros for the first two weeks of transfer window. And rumors concerning the interest of clubs like Juventus and Liverpool are going well. Suffice to say that we may be faced with the last weeks of Araujo under the Catalan tunic, and if some people already saw him as next Puyol or next bitter, he could go through the small door …
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