Barça has decided that Vitor Roque will end the season at Ath. Paranaense and he will join on January 1, 2024
It has been agreed with ‘Furacao’ that, if in the end there is a margin in the culé salary limit, ‘Tigrinho’ will anticipate his landing this summer
Vitor Roque will be culé now. He will sign for the next seven seasons (6 + 1 years), but will finish the 2023 campaign at Ath. paranaense. This is how the two clubs have defined it in the player’s transfer agreement, estimated at 30 million euros plus 31 in variables. Therefore, all parties work with the scenario that the young 18-year-old striker joins Xavi Hernández’s team on the first day of the winter market, in January 2024.
Barcelona, however, has left a door open with ‘Furacao’. If you get enough margin in the first team salary cap, ‘Tigrinho’ would anticipate its landing in the Catalan capital this summer.
This is a scenario that right now seems distant, because it would depend on making several departures (some of them not even scheduled at the moment), in a very negative scenario for Barça’s interests, because javier thebes He extended the 40% rule (that is, for every 100 million non-extraordinary income, only 40 can be used to sign up players) throughout this contracting window.
Barça is confident that, this coming autumn, LaLiga will end up making the Financial Fair Play more flexiblewhich would allow the registration of the Brazilian ‘9 in January and the carrying out of some other operation to reinforce the first team.
Thus, Vitor Roque would be a luxury reinforcement for Xavi Hernández for the second part of the season, when all the titles are played: since it could participate in the home run of the Spanish Super Cup and in the key qualifying rounds of the Copa del Rey, without counting the round of 16 of the Champions League where it is assumed that this time Barça will be there and the longest part of the league.
In the hypothetical case that javier thebes remains irreducible, does not give in and maintains the same Financial Fair Play regime that exists today, Barcelona would be prevented from registering new players in January. ‘Tigrinho’ would also leave Ath. paranaense.
So, as SPORT has learned, a loan would be sought until June 30 at a LaLiga or European football clubso that he was acclimatizing thinking about his arrival in the summer of 2024.
Everything indicates that Vitor Roque will continue to wear the ‘9 of Ath. Paranaense until Sunday, December 3 when the 38th round of the Brasileirao ends and the curtain falls on the season in Brazil.
The ‘Furacao’ remains alive on three fronts: He continues to fight to be in Libertadores positions in the league; Bolívar will be measured in the round of 16 of the Copa Libertadores; and, next Wednesday playing at home, they have to overcome a goal difference against Flamengo in the second leg of the quarterfinals of the Copa do Brasil after losing 2-1 at the Maracana.
At the moment, since January, between the commitments of the South American Under-20, his debut with Brazil and the different matches with his team, He has already accumulated 39 games in which he has scored 26 goals and has given six assists.
Coinciding with the final phase of his transfer to Barça, ‘Tigrinho’ It has shown its full potential. In the last six games, he has accumulated six goals and two assists. He is in spectacular shape.