The German footballer will be Barcelona’s first signing for the new season.
He was Haaland’s best partner and Pep Guardiola’s favorite, now he says bye and joins Barcelona
The arrival of Ilkay Gündogan as a player is now official at Barcelona. The German opted for the Blaugrana proposal and will leave Manchester City after having arrived in 2016 in exchange for 27 million euros. Now, he will arrive as a free agent to the team tactically led by Xavi Hernández.
The Barça club has already formalized its signing in their respective official accounts. It will only be the turn of the signature and the presentation personally at the house of Barcelona. It is not known if it will be in the stadium, because remodeling works are still being carried out to improve the Spotify Camp Nou.
“If I was going to move, there is only one club in the world that made sense. It was Barcelona or nothing. Ever since he was a little boy, he dreamed of wearing that shirt one day. I am confident that I have a few more years left at the highest level, and I just want to help Barcelona get back to where it deserves to be”, Gündogan revealed when explaining why he chose Barça.
The message that he left Robert Lewandowski and Xavi
“It will be a reunion with my old friend Lewa, and I am excited to play under another coach whom I have admired for a long time. When Xavi and I talked about the project, it seemed so natural. I see so many similarities between us as characters and in the way we see the game, ”said the German in a letter that he wrote and revealed in ‘The Players Tribune’.