Borussia Dortmund’s French starlet Ousmane Dembele brought an end to protracted transfer talks by agreeing a five-year deal with Barcelona for a fee of £96.8 million plus add-ons, the Spanish giants announced Friday.
“Visca Barça, Visca Catalunya!” Dembele tweeted in Catalan, meaning ‘Long live Barca, long live Catalonia’.
Dembele, 20, moves from Dortmund, where he has been suspended since he boycotted training on August 10 in protest after the German club rejected Barca’s first bid.
The fee is the second biggest transfer in history after Neymar’s £200.6 million move from Barca to Paris Saint-Germain earlier this month.
It will surpass the highest transfer by a French player, currently held by Paul Pogba in his £89 million move from Juventus to Manchester United last year.
The gallery above looks at the top 10 most expensive transfers of all-time.