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Óscar Mingueza controlling the ball

WITH A RIGHT TO REPURCHASE

OFFICIAL: Barça transfers Mingueza to Celta

Published:2/08/2022 - 16:43h

Updated:2/08/2022 - 17:05h

Barça has formally announced the agreement with Celta de Vigo for the transfer of Óscar Mingueza. The club will reserve 50% of a future sale and will guarantee his priority in case of signing him back

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After sounding during several weeks like one of the possible drops for the season 2022-23, the FC Barcelona has announced that Óscar Mingueza no longer will follow linked to the Barcelona team. The defender did not have fit in the eleven of Xavi Hernández and had several proposals on the table for a new destination. Of all they, has opted for remaining in LaLiga.

In such sense, Mingueza will add to the rows of the Celtic of Vigo after reaching a deal that will allow to the Barcelona reserve a 50 % of a future sale as well as a right of repurchase that will give priority to the culés in case to want to 'fish him' of turn. Through his official portal, have explained that this movement was the following step after the principle of agreement attained with the Galician picture on 30 July.

The step of Mingueza by the Barça

Of this way, the defender has put end to his cycle in the Barcelona team, where formed from the category of Prebenjamín. Eventualmente Would arrive until the Barça Atlètic and would be called by the trainer for then, Ronald Koeman, to integrate to the dynamics of the first team, debuting on 24 November 2020 in a party of Champions in front of the Dinamo of Kiev.

In said meeting was key for the victory of the Barça by 0-4 in the Olimpiyskiy Stadium of the Ukrainian capital. Mingueza Split like titling in the eleven of the Dutch, that drew a line of five deep down in which they accompanied him Sergiño Dest, Clément Lenglet, Junior Firpo and Miralem Pjanic. His debut would remain marked with an assistance to Martin Braithwaite to the minute 57 to put the 0-2 partial in the marker.

Fulfilling with the functions of central defender or carrilero right, the one of Santa Perpetua of Mogoda contested 66 parties like culé, 46 of them in corresponding meetings to LaLiga, ten in Champions, six in the Glass of Rey, two in the Europe League and other so many in the Supercopa of Spain. Likewise, it added two goals, one of them in a Classical and gave five assistances. His only title conquered was the Glass in the season 2020-21.