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LaLiga: Atletico Madrid sign club star from Barcelona on one-year loan deal

La Liga champions Atletico Madrid have re-endorsed forward Antoine Griezmann from Barcelona on a one-year credit bargain.

Atletico Madrid announced they had re-signed France forward Antoine Griezmann on a season-long loan from Barcelona. On the other hand, Barcelona reached an agreement with Sevilla to sign Dutch forward Luuk de Jong on a season-long loan deal with the option of a permanent transfer.

Barcelona has agreed with Sevilla to sign Dutch forward Luuk de Jong on a season-long credit manage the choice of a long-lasting exchange, the club said in an articulation on Wednesday.

De Jong, 31, shows up at the Nou Camp after two seasons in Andalucia, where he helped Sevilla to the 2020 Europa League crown and scored 10 objectives in 69 LaLiga appearances.

Both the arrangements had been tossed into question with neither one of the sides declaring the move before the 12 PM CET cutoff time.

Nearby media said the postponement was brought about by an issue with LaLiga’s exchange enlistment framework, yet the association affirmed they had gotten all pertinent documentation on schedule and had not allowed an expansion for the arrangement to be finished.

Atletico will pay the player’s wages and there is a necessary proviso to make the exchange extremely durable.

The France global scored 133 objectives in 257 games for Atletico, leaving in 2019 after Barcelona paid his £107m buyout statement.

He is the eleventh player to leave monetarily striving Barcelona this mid year, including Lionel Messi.

Barcelona needed to allow their record-breaking to top goalscorer pass on to fit inside La Liga’s pay design, and Messi joined Paris St-Germain.

Griezmann is the third exchange cutoff time day deal from Barcelona. Right-back Emerson Royal joined Tottenham for £25.8m and adolescent midfielder Ilaix Moriba moved to RB Leipzig for £13.7m.

However, the 30-year-old scored only 35 objectives in 102 games and figured out how to win just won the Copa del Rey with Barca.

previous summer, Atletico marked striker Luis Suarez from Barcelona and he helped Diego Simeone’s side success La Liga.

On Tuesday, the club announced stalwarts Sergio Busquets and Jordi Alba have accepted to take a pay cut in order to aid the club’s Financial Fair Play parameters and ensure new signing Sergio Aguero could be formally registered with the Spanish Football League (LFP).

 

Griezmann originally left Atletico for Barcelona in 2019 at the end of a protracted transfer saga after his £103m (€120m) release clause was paid in full.

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