Friday, June 13, 2025, 16:25
Joan García is already a new keeper of Barcelona. This Friday, the Barca club paid the 25 million euros of the Catalan goalkeeper clause to terminate his contract with Espanyol and to sign the 24 -year scan agile. Joan García arrives in Barça to be a starter, with the starting door certainly open to Marc-André ter Stegen, although the 33-year-old German goalkeeper has a contract until 2028.
Barcelona did not waste the market opportunities presented to Joan García after his brilliant season in Espanyol, where he was the key to the sustainability of the Blue and White team in Primera. The signing of Joan García was on the way to crystallization next week, but the events hurried on Friday morning and the player will be the Barça goalkeeper during the next six seasons, until 2031.
After four campaigns in Espanyol, the penultimate of them in the Second Division, the goalkeeper in the lower categories of the Perico Club forms De Sprong to Barça, with which he reached a principle of agreement almost three weeks ago, after the last day of the competition in the highest category. «If I leave, I make it proud to leave Espanyol first. Everyone knows the situation of the club and in which I am, “Joan García said after the game against Las Palmas on 24 May in Cornellà.
His words then sounded goodbye and reinforced the powerful rival of Espanyol in the city, where from the first moment a part of the Parakeet fans did not hesitate to attack the “traitor” Joan García for leaving Barça. The fact is that the Sallent de Llobregat goalkeeper was one of the worst paid players of the Espanyol team, with a salary of 300,000 euros gross per year, and in Barcelona will multiply his salary by 15, to four million per season.
Joan García, for whom they were also very interested in the prime minister, will see their spectacular progression rewarded, until, despite not being internationally, they will become one of the most prominent keepers of Spanish and European football. In the newly finished competition, he is the goalkeeper who made more stops (146), up to an average of almost four per match.
