An FC Barcelona locker room heavyweight has agreed to move to the Saudi Professional League when his contract … Extra
Getty PhotographsAn FC Barcelona locker room heavyweight has agreed to move to the Saudi Professional League when his contract expires, in keeping with native reviews picked up by SPORT which cited nameless sources.
Marc-Andre ter Stegen has been linked with a transfer to the Center East amid the signing of Joan Garcia.
On worldwide responsibility with Germany, he claimed ignorance as per being probably bought forward of the 2025/2026, at a time when Garcia’s launch clause at Espanyol nonetheless hadn’t been paid.
Now that’s been executed, and Garcia has been introduced and unveiled on the Joan Gamper CT, the veteran’s days between the sticks as Hansi Flick’s primary are believed to be numbered.
With a contract till mid-2028, nonetheless, Ter Stegen isn’t obliged to go wherever and may make issues troublesome for President Joan Laporta and Sporting Director Deco to get him out of the door.
Robert Lewandowski’s pending exit from the Catalans needs to be much more amicable. Turning 37 in precisely a few months’ time, the deal he signed when becoming a member of from Bayern Munich in 2022 expires in simply over a 12 months and isn’t anticipated to be renewed given his age.
Already trying on the large image, although, Saudi retailers such because the Al-Riyadiyah newspaper report that ‘Lewa’ will change into one of many Professional League’s marquee signings in 2026, which has been confirmed by an nameless Gol Worldwide spokesperson.
Gol Worldwide is in fact the company headed by Lewandowski’s tremendous agent Pini Zahavi, with whom Laporta shares an ideal working relationship that helped convey the Pole to the Camp Nou again within the well-known summer season of the “financial levers”.
The talked about newspaper is evident that there have been no direct conversations between Lewandowski and Professional League representatives but, however they’re anticipated quickly forward of the ex-Pichichi winner becoming a member of one in every of its groups in 2026.
Robert Lewandowski will go away FC Barcelona a modern-day membership legend
Regardless of what his subsequent vacation spot is, Lewandowski will go away FC Barcelona as a modern-day membership legend. With two La Liga titles, two Spanish Tremendous Cups and a Copa del Rey to his title amid 101 objectives, he may add the Champions League to that tally if Hansi Flick and his males go all the best way to Budapest after which some subsequent time period.