Ferran Torres left Barcelona for Paris Saint-Germain on 15 August. The package is around €50 million, he has signed to 2031, and he wears the number 9 at a club that won the Champions League last season.
He asked for it. Torres told Barcelona he wanted the move once PSG made their interest concrete, and Barcelona, with his contract due to expire in the summer of 2027 and their registration room tight, sanctioned it rather than fight it.
Luis Enrique is the reason. Torres called him a father figure in football and said so publicly on the way out, having played under him for Spain, and the pull of that reunion did more here than the money.
He leaves as a World Cup winner and the man who scored the only goal of the final against Argentina in extra time, which is a strange line to have on a Barcelona exit. In four and a half years at the club he was never quite trusted as the first choice forward and never quite dropped either, which is roughly what €55 million from Manchester City in December 2021 bought.
For Barcelona it is a sale that helped their summer arithmetic more than it hurt their attack. For PSG it is a forward who has scored in a World Cup final for a fee that would not buy a top six Premier League striker.