Barcelona agree option to sign Yannick Carrasco for up to €20m after leaving Memphis Depay

Barcelona have includ­ed an option to sign Yan­nick Car­ras­co for a trans­fer fee of around €15million to €20million this sum­mer when Mem­phis Depay moves to Atleti­co Madrid.

Barça and Atleti­co Madrid have reached an agree­ment for Mem­phis, 28, to join the Madrid club lat­er this month, ESPN report­ed on Thurs­day. It is a deal that is said to be up to 4 mil­lion euros, includ­ing the pos­si­bil­i­ty of the rider.

Accord­ing to club offi­cials, Barça also man­aged to insert a buy­out option into part of the trans­fer fee so that Car­ras­co could join the club permanently.

Car­ras­co’s agent, Pini Zahabi, revealed ear­li­er this week that the two clubs are in talks about a pos­si­ble exchange trade for the two players.

But with Mem­phis and Barça’s con­tract expir­ing in June, Atleti­co ruled out the pos­si­bil­i­ty of a direct exchange this month, believ­ing Car­ras­co to be worth more.

The 29-year-old Car­ras­co is mak­ing his sec­ond career with Atléti­co after the Dalian pro­fes­sion­al in Chi­na. The Bel­gium nation­al team can play on the left wing or full-back, while Mem­phis can play all up front.

The lat­est in a series of trans­fers between Barça and Atléti­co. Antoine Griez­mann returned to Atleti­co per­ma­nent­ly after leav­ing Los Rohi­blan­cos in 2019 to join Barcelona.

Some play­ers have played for both teams in recent years, such as Luis Suarez, Arda Turan and David Villa.

Atléti­co, who beat Lev­ante 2–0 on Wednes­day to reach the Copa del Rey quar­ter-finals, will host Real Val­ladol­id in La Liga on Saturday.

That game may be too ear­ly for Mem­phis to make his debut as the trans­fer is yet to be final­ized, but he should be under con­tract for a league match against Osasuna on Jan­u­ary 29.

After beat­ing Real Madrid in the Super Cup over the week­end, Barça will trav­el to Ceu­ta in the third divi­sion for the Copa on Thurs­day and will host Getafe in La Liga on Sunday.

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