The Portugal international will also receive a significantly reduced salary
Now it’s official. Atletico Madrid loaned Joao Felix to Barcelona, until the end of the season, with no option to buy. Moreover, the Colchoneros revealed that the Portugal international had renewed his contract for two more seasons, thus becoming linked to the Spanish capital until June 2029 – he arrived in 2019. According to ‘Relevo’, the advanced player has agreed to cut the demand significantly to go to the Blaugrana.
“I am very happy to be here,” Felix told Barcelona media. It must be remembered that the striker did not count in Diego Simeone’s favour, as he did not play a single minute of action in pre-season and in official Atlético commitments. For their part, the Catalans publicly thanked Felix “for the financial effort and desire to wear this shirt”.
With no space in the squad, who paid €126m to Benfica in 2019/20, and after being loaned to Chelsea, Joao Felix heads to Catalonia, becoming the eleventh Portuguese to wear the “Cole” shirt. Earlier, at Camp Nou, Jorge Mendonça, Luis Figo, Vitor Baia, Fernando Cotto, Simao Sabrosa, Ricardo Quaresma, Deco, Andre Gomez, Nelson Semedo and Francisco Trincao lined up.
The “Golden Boy” of 2019, after winning the 2018/19 La Liga title with Benfica, scored 34 goals in 131 matches for Atletico Madrid, in four seasons, after adding four goals in 20 matches in which he played. for Chelsea last season.
Even without playing any matches this season, the striker, the 2020/21 Spanish champion, is part of coach Roberto Martinez’s squad for the Euro 2024 qualifiers against Slovakia and Luxembourg from the Portuguese national team, which won the Nations League. In 2019. With the “Quinas” shirt, he participated in the European Nations Championship 2020 and the World Cup 2022, where he participated in 31 international matches and scored five goals.
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