Barcelona ranked among the busiest of Europe’s giants this summer, and their priority was obvious: rebuild the frontline. They kicked off the window by landing England’s Anthony Gordon from Newcastle in a deal worth 70 million euros, plus a further 10 million in add-ons, tying him down until 2031.<\/p>\n
Karim Adeyemi followed. The Germany forward arrived from Borussia Dortmund for 22 million euros fixed plus 7 million in variables, also signing until 2031, handing Hansi Flick the extra pace and attacking depth he craved.<\/p>\n
Two more names arrived to bolster the squad. Barca snapped up talented Egyptian Hamza Abdelkarim on a permanent basis from Al Ahly, and brought back Joao Cancelo from Saudi side Al Hilal.<\/p>\n
Several outgoings eased the wage bill, most notably Robert Lewandowski when his contract expired, along with defenders including loanee Ronald Araujo. That freed up room to spend. Rather than reinforce elsewhere, the board poured most of it into the final third, before pulling off one of the summer’s biggest coups.<\/p>\n
The Catalans struck an agreement with Manchester City for Rodri, a deal worth roughly 76.5 million euros in total, snatching the Spain midfielder from under Real Madrid’s noses.<\/p>\n
Not everything went their way. Barcelona missed out on the one signing their fans dreamed of, Atletico Madrid striker Julian Alvarez, and pivoted to Brazil’s Gabriel Jesus from Arsenal instead.<\/p>\n
President Joan Laporta revealed that Barcelona had tabled an offer topping 100 million euros. Atletico refused to budge. They even released a statement putting the chance of Alvarez joining Barcelona at “zero per cent”, ending one of the window’s most gripping sagas without the happy finish the Catalans wanted.<\/p>\n
Here are all the deals the Catalan club completed in the concluded mercato:<\/p>\n
Those joining Barcelona<\/p>\n
PlayerClubDeal valueAnthony GordonNewcastle80 million eurosKarim Adeyemi\u00a0Dortmund\u00a022 million euros\u00a0Jesse BesuoClub Brugge8.5 million eurosRodriManchester City60 million eurosHamza Abdelkarim\u00a0Al Ahly\u00a01.5 million euros\u00a0Joao Cancelo\u00a0Al Hilal\u00a0Free transfer\u00a0Dominik Livakovic \u00a0Fenerbahce\u00a02 million eurosGabriel Jesus\u00a0Arsenal\u00a010 million euros<\/p>\n
Those leaving Barcelona<\/p>\n
PlayerClubDeal valueRobert LewandowskiChicago Fire\u00a0Contract expiryAnder AstralagaAtletico MadridFree transferAnsu Fati\u00a0Monaco\u00a011 million eurosInaki Pena\u00a0Panathinaikos\u00a03 million eurosDiego Kochen\u00a0Lyngby BK\u00a0LoanRonald AraujoLiverpoolLoanFerran Torres\u00a0Paris Saint-Germain\u00a045 million euros\u00a0Joffre TorrentsAjaxFree transferTommy Marques\u00a0Braga\u00a011 million euros\u00a0Hector Fort\u00a0Real Sociedad\u00a08.5 million eurosMarc Casado\u00a0Deportivo La CorunaLoanGerard FernandezMallorca4 million eurosAron YaakobishviliAlmeriaLoanAlvaro CortesRoyal Antwerp3.5 million eurosToni FernandezVeneziaLoan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barcelona ranked among the busiest of Europe’s giants this summer, and their priority was obvious: rebuild the frontline.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1822,179,92,21258,1885,1818,82,272,1139,83,95],"class_list":["post-79402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-madrid","tag-athletic-bilbao","tag-atletico-madrid","tag-barcelona","tag-coventry-city","tag-everton","tag-liverpool","tag-madrid","tag-manchester-city","tag-real-betis","tag-real-madrid","tag-valencia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79402","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=79402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}