The Barça club will pay Manchester City around 450,000 euros for the midfielder, which would become the most expensive transfer in the history of women’s football.
The FC Barcelona and Manchester City have reached an agreement for the transfer of the player Keira Walsh. The English midfielder will sign a contract with the Catalan club until June 30, 2025. According to the British press, the transfer would be around €450,000, a record figure in women’s football.
Once the qualifying matches for the World Cup with England have been played, the player will arrive in Barcelona shortly to join her new team. to their 25 years, Walsh is considered one of the world’s foremost midfielders in the making of the game.
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His City debut was in 2014, when he was just 17 yearsand since then it has been key in the core both in the team and in the English national team. In the recent triumph of the ‘lionesses’ in the European Championship she was chosen Best Player of the Final who pitted them against Germany.
His track record at club level also consists of four Leagues and three Cups. With extensive experience in Champions League With Manchester City, in the 2020-21 season he faced Barça in the quarter-final tie that opted for the Barça side by an aggregate of 4-2.
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If that transfer figure is officially confirmed, Walsh would represent the most expensive sale in women’s football history. Until now, the ranking was led by the signing of the Danish Pernille Harder for Chelsea, who paid 350,000 euros to Wolfsburg in 2020.
With the English international, Barça reinforces the creative zone of the center of the field after the serious injury to Alexia Putellas. Her mishap led to Markel Zubizarreta and his team to search the market again after the already closed incorporations of Lucy Bronce, Geyse Ferreira, Salma Paralluelo and Nuria Rábano.