Barcelona will receive €300,000 from La Liga club if ‘fear clause’ for loanee is violated

Girona reaped the rewards of their summer business when they locked horns with Sheffield United in the recent friendly, as both Savinho and Barcelona loanee, Pablo Torre, got on the scoresheet to drive their new team to a 2-0 win.

Torre has moved to Girona on a season-long loan, and as per reports Barcelona have inserted the ‘fear clause’ in the agreement with their Catalan rivals. 

Divulging more details about the said fear clause, Mundo Deportivo claims that Girona will have to pay Barcelona a sum of €300,000 if they play the youngster against the Blaugrana next season.

This translates to a penalty of €600,000 if Girona use him against his parent club in both league games next season.

What is Barcelona’s fear clause?

As iterated earlier, Barcelona’s deal with Girona for the 20-year-old includes the aforementioned clause as it poses a direct threat to their pursuit of winning the La Liga title next season.

The Blaugrana are not entirely strangers to loanees causing problems against them.

Back in 2020, in the 8-2 defeat to Bayern Munich in the UEFA Champions League, a certain Philippe Coutinho, on loan with the Germans from the Blaugrana, scored two goals and provided an assist in just seven minutes.

Barcelona want to avoid such mishaps in the future, and hence, have put measures in place to prohibit Girona from using Torre against them as they had done with Ez Abde (CA Osasuna) and Nico Gonzalez (Valencia) last season.

So, in case Girona use Torre against Barcelona, they would have to pay a penalty of €300,000 for every match they do so.

Torre left to gain minutes

In all fairness, Torre’s departure to Girona aims to get important minutes under his belt in La Liga next season.

After all, the youngster had hardly played for the Barça first team during his debut season at the club.

It is more than evident that Xavi wants to see more of the 20-year-old, but considering the competition at hand, it would have been more than impossible for the player to break into the first team.

Considering the circumstances, the 20-year-old was allowed to leave, and given his performance against Sheffield United, it is likely that he will see significantly more game time than last season at his new club.