Eric García and the 'Kun' Agüero: The last of all the signings between the City and Barça

"The FC Barcelona and Sergio 'Kun' Agüero have arrived to an agreement for his incorporation to the Club from 1 July, once finished his agreement with the Manchester City", prays part of the communiqué issued by the Catalan club for oficializar this Monday 31 May the arrival of the Argentinian forward. The exjugador of the Athletic of Madrid signed an agreement by two seasons, until the ending of the 2022/23 and has a clause of rescission of 100 million euros. However, he and the defender Eric García are the last involved in operations between the Barça and the 'citizens'.

The first, and remembers it the journalist Sergi Graell, was Sylvinho. The now technician of the Corinthians, left the city condal to travel to Manchester in the summer of 2009, closing like this a stage of 5 seasons in the group culé. Later, it would be Yaya Touré is to go out of the City Condal course to the Premier League of England, where found in the City the minutes that sued in the Camp Nou after the peak of Sergio Busquets in the first Catalan team.

Afterwards, it gave a contrary case with Denis Suárez, the one who began in the British country when being fichado of the quarry of the Celtic. A total of three seasons helped him to grow like footballer to arrive afterwards to the Barcelona group, in 2013, by 1,5 million euros. A similar situation to the one of García, the one who abandoned The Farm in 2017 and this Tuesday returned like one of the signings of Joan Laporta, the one who fulfils his second stage in the presidential of the FC Barcelona.

Claudio Bravo also would be one of these exjugadores culé that would put to the orders of Pep Guardiola, afterwards of the signing by the Barça of the German goalkeeper Marc-André ter Stegen, the one who until the day has the titularity of indisputable way. The Chilean had prominence in his first season, but with arrival of Ederson was relegado.

A 'jewel' that also carried

Another protagonist in operations between the City and the Catalans was Adrián Bernabé. Of agreement to the aiming by Graell, the footballer, the one who was a member of the juvenile B of the Barça, was one of the players called to be able to have presence in the first team. "The City was conscious of this and to the 17 years, made him an economic and sportive proposal difficult to reach by the Barcelona group", remembered.