{"id":45560,"date":"2026-08-08T03:41:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T03:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/liverpool-transfers-ronald-araujo-close-to-season-long-loan-from-barcelona\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T03:41:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T03:41:54","slug":"liverpool-transfers-ronald-araujo-close-to-season-long-loan-from-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/liverpool-transfers-ronald-araujo-close-to-season-long-loan-from-barcelona\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool transfers: Ronald Araujo close to season-long loan from Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/teams\/liverpool\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Liverpool<\/b><\/a><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\"> are close to signing Uruguay defender Ronald Araujo on a season-long loan from Barcelona.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The deal includes an option to buy Araujo, who is expected to link up with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/teams\/liverpool\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Liverpool<\/a> squad this weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 27-year-old centre-back has helped Barca win La Liga in three of the past four seasons, and ended last season as club captain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Araujo is under contract until 2031 but only made 11 league starts last season, with Gerard Martin and Pau Cubarsi emerging as their preferred central defensive pairing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After joining Barca from Uruguayan club Boston River in 2018, Araujo has made more than 200 appearances for the Spanish giants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/teams\/liverpool\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Liverpool<\/a> were looking to strengthen their defence after Ibrahima Konate left the Reds to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/crr8797ek15o\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">join Real Madrid on a free transfer.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/c4gxvvxldewo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool are close to signing Uruguay defender Ronald Araujo on a season-long loan from Barcelona. The deal includes an option to buy Araujo, who is expected to link up with the Liverpool squad this weekend. The 27-year-old centre-back has helped Barca win La Liga in three of the past four seasons, and ended last season [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45560"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45562,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45560\/revisions\/45562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}