Barcelona has agreed a deal with Guangzhou Evergrande to sign Brazilian midfielder Paulinho for 40 million euros (US$47.19 million) Men's Nike Air VaporMax Grey White UK , the Spanish club said yesterday.
“The new Barcelona player will sign for the next four seasons (and) the player’s buyout clause is set at 120 million euros,” Barcelona said in a statement.
“Paulinho will undergo a club medical on Thursday (when) the signing of the contract and his official presentation will also take place.”
The 29-year-old is Barcelona’s first signing since it sold Neymar to Paris Saint-Germain earlier this month for a world-record 222 million euros, with the Catalans still looking to make further reinforcements.
Liverpool’s Philippe Coutinho and Borussia Dortmund’s Ousmane Dembele have both been targeted by Barcelona as it searches for a player capable of replacing Neymar’s spark on the left of the attack.
Coutinho has handed in a transfer request at Anfield. Barcelona has had two bids rejected for Coutinho and is poised to return with a third offer, according to reports in Spain.
The arrival of Coutinho’s Brazil teammate Paulinho will allow Barcelona to add more muscle and energy to a midfield which struggled to keep control of games last season.
“Paulinho is a player who stands out for being a powerful midfielder at 1.82-meter tall who can get into the box and play anywhere in the middle of the park. He has plenty of experience in the game on various continents,” Barcelona added.
The announcement of Barcelona’s third signing of the summer transfer window after Gerard Deulofeu and Nelson Semedo came just hours after the Catalans suffered a 1-3 home defeat to Real Madrid in the Spanish Super Cup first leg on Sunday.
Paulinho failed to make an impact in the English Premier League with Tottenham Hotspur after joining from Corinthians and departed to Guangzhou Evergrande in 2015 for 14 million euros. While in the Chinese top flight Paulinho found his best form Men's Nike Air VaporMax Black Gold UK , scoring 25 goals in 95 games for Guangzhou, and earned a recall to the Brazilian national side.
by Xinhua writer Li Ming
NEW YORK, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- As the renegotiation of the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is underway in Washington D.C., other U.S. trade partners are also watching it closely, which might be a template for the U.S. government's future trade talks.
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It's the first time that the office has included the deficit reduction as a specific objective for NAFTA, reflecting U.S. President Donald Trump's long-time belief that the bilateral deficit is a sign of a broken trade pact, which many economists see as groundless.
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The U.S. trade deficit is "a very direct reflection that we spend far far more than our income, we have to buy abroad because we are buying more things than we produce," he added.
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Famous for his tough in trade rhetoric, Trump has vowed to withdraw or amend any trade agreement that he thinks are widening the U.S. trade deficit and hurting U.S. manufacturing.
Describing the U.S.-South Korean FTA as a "horrible deal" Women's Nike Air Max TN Black Pink UK , Trump has called for a renegotiation of the five-year-old pact to narrow the trade deficit. In mid July, South Korea accepted a U.S. request to convene a special session of the joint committee on their bilateral agreement.
"I do think the NAFTA renegotiation will set certain limits for a renegotiation with South Korea," said Justin Fendos, professor at Dongseo University in South Korea and the associate director of the Tan School at Fudan University, in an interview with Xinhua on Wednesday.
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He anticipated that the renegotiation will only bring about "superficial changes to the current terms, something Trump can tote as a victory publicly."
In that case, the South Korea renegotiation will not be very significant either since the superficial nature of the NAFTA renegotiation will signal a lack of political will, he said.
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