FC Barcelona has reached an agreement to sign a new first team player as reported by SPORT, citing anonymous sources.
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FC Barcelona has reached an agreement to sign a new first team player as reported by SPORT and Mundo Deportivo, citing anonymous sources.
The former Catalan newspaper’s reliable transfer market expert Carlos Monfort explains that Barça has agreed to pay Fenerbahce around $4.7 million (€4 million) for Dominik Livakovic.
Croatia World Cup star Livakovic should officially join the Blaugrana in 2027.
Then, it’s highly likely that he’ll be loaned out first, and later return to Catalonia a year from now to start the 2027/2028 season under Hansi Flick.
The 31-year-old is effectively a replacement for Wojciech Szczesny, who is currently number two in the goalkeeping pecking order behind Spain international Joan Garcia.
‘Tek’, as Szczesny is known to his companions, was brought in as a last-minute replacement outside the closed transfer market when Marc-Andre ter Stegen tore his ACL away at Villarreal pretty much as 2024/2025 got underway.
Ter Stegen has since had two loans out to Girona and Ajax, the latter of which he has just started now, and it appears that he has no way back into the fold at FC Barcelona with his contract set to expire in mid-2028.
Szczesny’s terms run down in just over 10 months on June 30, 2027, and he’s likely to go back into the retirement that Barça pulled him out of after hanging his gloves up at Juventus.
Livakovic will keep Joan Garcia on his toes at FC Barcelona
Though he didn’t play a single minute during Spain’s World Cup-winning campaign in North America this summer, as Unai Simon let in just one goal thanks to Pau Cubarsi’s Best Young Player exploits, Joan Garcia is the future of his club and country.
As an experienced goalkeeper himself with World Cup pedigree however, who has also been on loan at Girona and played in the Champions League, Livakovic will keep ex-Espanyol shotsopper Joan Garcia on his toes at the Spotify Camp Nou.
It’s always good to have back up too, as unfortunately you never know when Garcia might be unavailable as we saw during a key point of FC Barcelona’s 2025/2026 season under Flick.