FC Barcelona 120 mills Antoine Griezmann deal: Barcelona would have poured 120 M € to recruit Antoine Griezmann and the Spanish club is already doing a good deal

The rumors are persistent and the announcement should be official this Friday, July 12, 2019 according to several press information: Antoine Griezmann will become a player of FC Barcelona. The team even claims that the case is concluded. For the moment there has been no official confirmation. He will join his teammates world champions Ousmane Dembélé and Samuel Umtiti. Since the announcement of his departure from Atletico Madrid, this arrival in the club Barcelona is an open secret. But this transfer takes time because of the amount to be paid to make this transfer. To acquire the striker, FC Barcelona waited until the price of its release clause fell from 200 million to 120 million euros, since July 1.

FC Barcelona 120 mills Antoine Griezmann deal

By dragging an agreement with Atletico Madrid, FC Barcelona has saved time and money. Even if the sum - 120 million euros - may seem consistent, the Catalan club is already doing a good job. Two estimates of the value of the player confirm this observation: Antoine Griezmann would be worth 10 to 23 million more than the amount paid by the Spanish champion in title. According to the recognized CIES Football Observatory, based in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, the value of the 28-year-old French world champion would be 143.8 million euros. It is one of the 11 most expensive players in Europe, well ahead of Neymar whose value has dropped to 100 million euros. For its part, the German portal TransfertMarkt, specializing in football news, believes that Antoine Griezmann is worth 130 million euros.

This is the same process used by PSG to enlist Neymar in 2017. The Paris club had also paid a clause to buy the Brazilian player but it amounted to 220 million euros. In concrete terms, as recalled by RMC Sport, in this context, it is up to the player to announce to the club his intention to lift his clause. Then, the payment is made by the player himself or more surely by a third party with the agreement of the interested party, in this case FC Barcelona. If everything happens tomorrow, Antoine Griezmann could join his new teammates from Sunday, July 14 and fly on July 20 for a tour in Japan, says L'Equipe.