Paris \u2013 Spain\u2019s World Cup-winning captain Rodri arrived in Barcelona on Monday to sign a contract with the La Liga champions as one of the transfer sagas of the summer draws to its conclusion.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m very pleased to be here. The last few days have been intense, but I\u2019m glad everything\u2019s sorted. Of course, playing for Barcelona is a dream,\u201d the midfielder told journalists waiting for him at the airport.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t wait to be with my teammates, I already know many of them from the national team. It\u2019s time to get down to work and give it our all,\u201d the 30-year-old added.<\/p>\n
Rodri said his aims with Barcelona would be \u201cthe Champions League and whatever else comes our way.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 2024 Ballon d\u2019Or winner landed in Barcelona the day after Manchester City and his future employers reached an agreement on a transfer fee of around \u20ac75 million ($87 million), according to the Catalan press.<\/p>\n
A source within Barcelona said Sunday that the deal would be made official \u201cin the coming days.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rodri has struggled with injuries over the past two seasons but shone as Spain won their second World Cup in North America last month.<\/p>\n
After seven trophy-laden years at Manchester City, the former Atletico Madrid and Villarreal player was reported to be close to joining Real Madrid, before finally opting for their arch rivals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paris \u2013 Spain\u2019s World Cup-winning captain Rodri arrived in Barcelona on Monday to sign a contract with the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48732,5084,8,33,39767,2796],"class_list":["post-75895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-japan","tag-barcelona-fc","tag-fifa-world-cup","tag-japan","tag-nihon","tag-rodri","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}