Xavi,
Carles Puyol and Lionel Messi have reached an agreement with Barcelona
over a contract extension. This was have announced on the club’s
official website.
While
Xavi and Puyol will have their contract extended until the summer of
2016, Messi will stay with the club until 2018, with the deals to be
penned in the coming weeks.
Puyol’s
previous contract was due to expire at the end of the 2012-13 campaign,
but the 34-year-old defender will remain at Barca for three additional
seasons.
Xavi,
32, midfielder had a deal with Barcelona until the summer of 2014, and
has now reached an agreement for two more seasons after he already
revealed last week that negotiations had reached the final stages.
Messi
was initially under contract with the Camp Nou side until 2016, but
Barcelona were desperate to offer the 25-year-old a new deal following
his impressive performances this calendar year that has seen him net 90
goals for club and country and currently leads the Liga scoring charts
with 25 strikes in 16 games.
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