PSG have completed the signing of Barcelona forward Ferran Torres for a reported €50 million. The Blaugranas have now lost their Spanish striker even as they are still unable to replace the departed Lewandowski.
Ferran Torres has been a good signing for Barcelona over the past four seasons, having joined the Catalans in January 2022 from Manchester City. Although Barcelona have recouped much of the money they paid for him, letting a striker who contributed 21 goals and three assists in all competitions leave while they have no senior strikers on the list is not a wise choice.
Barcelona are currently pursuing Rodri as they look to bring in a midfielder to help their team get closer to recapturing the UEFA Champions League title once again after 10 years of falling short.
Signing Rodri is a brilliant move, but Barcelona are without a top striker as Lewandowski and now Ferran Torres have moved on. That puts them in a tight position as the European transfer market closes in just over two weeks.
After landing Rodri, Barcelona will ideally have to sign two strikers: one main striker to permanently replace Lewandowski and another who can always hop in for La Liga matches and cover when the main striker needs to rest or is injured, as that was the role Ferran played perfectly well at Barcelona.
By signing Ferran, PSG have a striker high in confidence after scoring the World Cup-winning goal to serve as a rotation option for their squad, as striker Goncalo Ramos left the club early this summer.
PSG get a striker who is approaching his prime years, confident, experienced, and yet still hungry to win the Champions League in a team already stacked with world-class talents.
Also, whoever Barcelona sign is not guaranteed to hit the heights Ferran was beginning to reach at the club. The club have recently failed when signing strikers like Griezmann and Vitor Roque, and if they are to do well this season, they cannot afford to get it wrong.
PSG have shown European clubs what it truly takes to dominate the Champions League in the 2020s, and that is to have enough quality players to properly share the workload so the team can maintain its core intensity in games.
And if Barcelona are to follow the blueprint of a team that has dominated European football over the past two years, they will be scampering to get a deal done for Rodri, a main striker, and a backup option in the final two weeks of the transfer window, and that’s not good enough.
