{"id":74042,"date":"2026-08-22T02:16:44","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T02:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/74042\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T02:16:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T02:16:44","slug":"barcelona-transfer-news-catalan-giants-agree-deal-for-31-year-old-but-theres-a-catch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/74042\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona transfer news: Catalan giants &#8216;agree deal&#8217; for 31-year-old &#8211; but there&#8217;s a catch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-muted sm-article-infos mb-0\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBy<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/team\/matt-law\/\" itemprop=\"url\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMatt<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLaw<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t|<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t21 Aug 2026 13:19, Last updated: 21 Aug 2026 13:20\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/football\/barcelona\/\" title=\"Barcelona\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Barcelona<\/a> have reportedly reached a verbal agreement with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/football\/fenerbahce\/\" title=\"Fenerbahce\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fenerbahce<\/a> goalkeeper\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/people\/dominik-livakovic\/\" title=\"Dominik Livakovic\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dominik Livakovic<\/a> over a move to Camp Nou.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old is a hugely experienced stopper, being capped on 79 occasions by Croatia, while he has close to 500 club career appearances to his name.<\/p>\n<p>Livakovic spent time on loan with both Girona and Dinamo Zagreb from Fenerbahce last season, but he has represented the Turkish giants on 74 occasions in all competitions.<\/p>\n<p>There has been a host of speculation surrounding the goalkeeper&#8217;s future this summer, with Barcelona said to have identified the Croatian as a leading target.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-img-id=\"163830\" class=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/https:\/\/sportsmole-media-prod.s3.gra.io.cloud.ovh.net\/uploads\/2026\/08\/imago1078792928-6a85b604184ab7.webp\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Imago \/ aal.photo<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona &#8216;reach verbal agreement&#8217; over\u00a0Livakovic deal<\/p>\n<p>According to transfer expert Fabrizio Romano, the La Liga champions have reached a verbal agreement with Livakovic over a move to Camp Nou.<\/p>\n<p>The report claims that Barcelona will pay an initial\u00a0\u20ac2m (\u00a31.7m) plus\u00a0\u20ac2m (\u00a31.7m) in add-ons for the goalkeeper, but he will not arrive until the summer of 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona allegedly intend to loan\u00a0Livakovic out for the season, with the goalkeeper then arriving as the number two to Joan Garcia next summer, after\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/people\/wojciech-szczesny\/\" title=\"Wojciech Szczesny\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wojciech Szczesny<\/a> has departed.<\/p>\n<p>Livakovic is set to spend the 2026-27 campaign on loan at another club.<\/p>\n<p>Marc-Andre ter Stegen has already left Barcelona this summer, with the German making a loan switch to Dutch giants Ajax at the start of August.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-img-id=\"153720\" class=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/https:\/\/sportsmole-media-prod.s3.gra.io.cloud.ovh.net\/uploads\/2025\/10\/imago1068297707-1-1-68fe5d1e05.webp\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Imago \/ Pressinphoto<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona&#8217;s summer transfer business is not finished<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona have made five signings this summer, boosting their squad with the arrivals of Anthony Gordon, Karim Adeyemi, Jesse Bisiwu, Rodri and Joao Cancelo.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/people\/hansi-flick\/\" title=\"Hansi Flick\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hansi Flick<\/a>&#8216;s side still want to sign another forward before the market closes, but a deal for Atletico Madrid&#8217;s Julian Alvarez is viewed as incredibly difficult.<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona will begin their 2026-27 La Liga campaign against Elche on Sunday night, before playing their gameweek one fixture against Athletic Bilbao on August 27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Matt Law | 21 Aug 2026 13:19, Last updated: 21 Aug 2026 13:20 Barcelona have reportedly reached&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[92,320,322,313,315,318,321,319,100,316,314,324,323,317],"class_list":["post-74042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-barcelona","tag-barcelona","tag-cycling","tag-epl","tag-football","tag-formula-1","tag-golf","tag-nfl","tag-olympics","tag-premier-league","tag-rugby","tag-sport","tag-sports-mole","tag-teams","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}