Barça continues to accelerate its great revolution with a new signing:
Jules Koundé
.
The French defender, who has been playing for the last few seasons in the ranks of Sevilla, thus becomes the sixth signing of the Barça club this summer, after the arrival at the Camp Nou of
Kessié, Christensen, Raphinha and Lewandowski
and the re-signing of Dembélé.
Seven, in the event that Pablo Torre, initially hired to play for Barça Atlètic, finally gets a place in the first team.
For now, the entity chaired by Joan Laporta has announced a
preliminary agreement with the Seville team
, pending only the pertinent medical review and the signing of the contracts.
The cost of the operation that has brought the Barcelona entity to the center-back is
50 million fixed euros, to which up to 10 million
more would be added if a series of variables are met, half of which would be, in principle, easy compliance.
With the arrival of Koundé, Barça continues to shore up a squad with which it would be more than ready to
compete for all possible titles next
season.
And, in turn, it represents a new blow to Chelsea, a club that, in principle, seemed to have everything in its favor to take over the Frenchman and which also won the game in the race to sign Raphinha.
The signing of the Frenchman, Xavi's preferred option to reinforce the
center of the Barça defense,
seems to rule out the incorporation of a footballer who has been making a lot of noise as a possible replacement for this player: Athletic center-back Íñigo Martínez.
However, it is still
possible that the club chaired by Joan Laporta
try to do it, if the desired conditions are met, with a player whose commitment to the Bilbao team ends on June 30 of next year.
Koundé, who prioritized at all times the option of joining Barça
over playing for Chelsea
, will initially sign a five-year contract, until June 30, 2027. And, given his youth and projection (the defender will fulfill 24 years old on November 12), it is very possible that the Barça entity sets a
termination clause of 1,000 million euros
, the same as Raphinha, Pedri and Ansu Fati have.
The player landed this Thursday afternoon at El Prat airport, after leaving Sevilla's concentration in Portugal and, in principle, will not travel to the United States to join a team
that will play the last friendly
of his tour of North American lands in the early hours of next Saturday to Sunday against the New York Red Bulls at the Red Bull Arena in Harrison, New Jersey.
As soon as the match is over, the Barcelona team will start the trip back to Barcelona to continue with the training plan set by their coach, Xavi Hernández.
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