The winter transfer window in European football has officially closed, but the legend of the Barcelona transfer is still shocking. In the past winter transfer window, the poor and depressed Barcelona has not only completed a number of reinforcements, but also sent away many marginal players, which can be described as a model of the transfer operation of the down-and-out giants. However, the most outstanding thing is still in the last day, Barcelona sent away the third goalkeeper of the first team, and introduced the Bundesliga and Premier League double gold boots Aubameyang for free, which greatly strengthened the current team lineup.
On February 2, local time, Barcelona officially announced that Gabonese strong Pierre-Aubameyang officially joined the club, and the player will sign a contract with the team until June 30, 2025, and can choose to leave the team freely in the summer of 2023.
This seems like an ordinary transfer, but behind it is countless riots in Barcelona.
First of all, Aubameyang itself still has a 1.5-year contract with Arsenal, so Barcelona want to bring in this player under normal circumstances need to pay a large transfer fee and player signing bonuses and various commissions, but also to give such a star player a huge salary to complete the introduction.
But Barcelona's transfer department, not knowing what method was used, allowed Aubameyang to complete the termination of the contract with Arsenal, and Arsenal also paid the player's salary for the next six months. That is to say, Barcelona was able to bring in this player for free, and the player was willing to sign with Barcelona for the first six months of the monthly salary of 5,000 euros after getting the salary for the next six months, which can be said that everything is so incredible, but in the winter window of Barcelona, it happened.
It should be known that Aubameyang's annual salary at Arsenal is as high as 14 million euros, and his half-year salary in Barcelona is even less than the more than a week he earned in the Premier League, but even so, the American sheep who are not happy in the competition still choose to hold hands with the Red and Blue Army that extend an olive branch. It is worth mentioning that Aubameyang is the only Bundesliga and Premier League golden boot in history, and Barcelona's free introduction of Gabonese can be described as a big bargain.
Despite this, the introduction of Ferran Torres, Alves and Traoré still made Barcelona's salary cap very tight, so On the last day of the transfer window, Barcelona chose to loan the team's third goalkeeper, Injaki Penha, to Galatasaray, Turkey, allowing the players to continue to grow while freeing up part of the salary space.
Combined with the winter window, Barcelona spent only 55 million euros on Ferran Torres' transfer fee, and spent no dime on the other three players, and was able to complete all the registrations in an incredible way, which is really rare.
Had such a sporting director in Bartomeu's time, Barcelona would not be able to get rid of high-paid and low-performing players such as Dembele and Umtiti now.