Deal sealed with Oriol Romeu for Barca return

Oriol Romeu is one step away from becoming a new FC Barcelona player. The Blaugrana are at an advanced stage of negotiations with Girona, with the transfer expected to be completed in the next few hours, while all the details have already been agreed with the midfielder.

There will be an amicable agreement between the two Catalan clubs and Oriol Romeu will return to Barca, after training there between 2004 and 2011. The midfielder even made his first-team debut for the first team, appearing in two games in the 2010/11 season: one in LaLiga and the other in the Spanish Super Cup.

After leaving the Catalan capital he headed for Chelsea, returned to LaLiga for a season with Valencia, left the following season for Stuttgart and made a name for himself at Southampton, where he spent seven seasons. Last year he returned to Catalonia and signed for Girona, where he became the team's leader and an indispensable part of Míchel's sporting project.

So, after the departure of Sergio Busquets, Xavi Hernandez has a replacement for the former captain in the team's pivot role. The financial situation that the club is going through has forced the sporting management to go for a more 'low cost' profile, but the arrival of Oriol Romeu has achieved the approval and approval of all the members of the sporting set-up.

The player, who will turn 32 in September, will become FC Barcelona's third signing of the season, after Ilkay Gündogan and Iñigo Martínez. The player from Ulldecona will join the Blaugrana pre-season soon and the club's intention is that he can already be present during the team's tour in the United States to acclimatise himself to the new dressing room and Barça's style of play again.