MADRID, Jan 17: Eric Abidal has agreed a new one-year deal with Barcelona which ties him until 2013 with automatic options to extend it by two more years, the club said on Monday.

Negotiations on a new contract had been held up by changes in the tax law brought about by the recent change in government and by reported interest from Paris St Germain. Abidal joined the Catalan club in 2007 and his existing contract was due to expire at the end of the current campaign.-Reuters

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