Official: Barcelona have registered Ronald Araujo with La Liga

In a huge development, Barcelona have managed to complete the registration of key defender Ronald Araujo with La Liga.

The Uruguayan international had signed a new contract with the club back in April last year, but it had not been registered with the league yet.

As such, the 24-year-old was on his previous Barça Atletic contract which expired on June 30, following which he did not feature on La Liga’s official website as a first-team player for the club.

However, earlier today, the Blaugrana received a mammoth €120 million cash injection into the club by means of the sale of a 29.5% stake in Barça Vision.

It enabled them to press ahead with the registration of new signings as well as players whose contracts were not registered.

It was suggested that Barcelona would prioritise registering Araujo and Ilkay Gundogan first and now, the former has indeed been registered with La Liga.

This comes just an hour after it was officially confirmed that Gavi will be the club’s No. 6 moving forward after Barça encountered several problems with his first-team contract registration last season.

Xavi will now be able to call on him for the La Liga opener against Getafe on Sunday.