{"id":10626,"date":"2025-06-13T14:01:39","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T18:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/barcelona-signs-joan-garcia-goalkeeper-arrives-for-e25m-from-espanyol\/"},"modified":"2025-06-13T14:01:39","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T18:01:39","slug":"barcelona-signs-joan-garcia-goalkeeper-arrives-for-e25m-from-espanyol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/barcelona-signs-joan-garcia-goalkeeper-arrives-for-e25m-from-espanyol\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona signs Joan Garc\u00eda: Goalkeeper arrives for \u20ac25M from Espanyol"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Barcelona Secures Joan Garc\u00eda After Paying Release Clause<\/h2>\n\nBarcelona is ready to sign Joan Garc\u00eda, after executing the 25 million euro release clause of the Espanyol goalkeeper. The transfer is expected to be finalized in the coming days.\n\nThe club ordered the payment of the clause on Friday. The League still needs to validate the operation before the agreement is completed.\n\nGarc\u00eda, 24 years old, has agreed to a six-year contract with Barcelona, which will extend until 2031. He will reinforce a position that currently includes Marc-Andr\u00e9 ter Stegen, Wojciech Szcz\u0119sny, and I\u00f1aki Pe\u00f1a.\n\nEspanyol would have preferred not to lose him to their city rival, but could not avoid the transfer given that the 25 million euro fee represents the release clause in his contract.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a4.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0613%2Fr1506251_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Joan Garc\u00eda es el nuevo fichaje del Barcelona\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\nGarc\u00eda, born in Catalonia, joined Espanyol in 2016 and progressed through the club&#8217;s youth system, debuting in the first team in 2021.\n\nHe helped Espanyol get promoted to LaLiga in 2024 and participated in all 38 league matches this season, securing their place in the league on the final matchday. He received praise for some of his performances.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona Secures Joan Garc\u00eda After Paying Release Clause Barcelona is ready to sign Joan Garc\u00eda, after executing the 25 million euro release clause of the Espanyol goalkeeper. The transfer is expected to be finalized in the coming days. The club ordered the payment of the clause on Friday. The League still needs to validate the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[156,2309,3359,394],"class_list":{"0":"post-10626","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-barcelona","9":"tag-espanyol","10":"tag-joan-garcia","11":"tag-transfer"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}