Rodri dey go Barcelona as Manchester City agree £65 million deal - oda top transfers so far for 2026 summer window

Barcelona don agree deal to sign Spain captain Rodri from Manchester City for about £65 million.

Di 2024 Ballon d'Or winner dey set to sign four-year deal wit di Spanish champions and di transfer fit dey completed in few days time.

Rodri join Man City from Atletico Madrid for 2019 for £62.8m. Since den, e don play 298 matches through seven seasons and win 12 trophies including:

For di 2024-25 season, Rodri suffer serious knee injury wey make am miss almost all of dat season, plus anoda hamstring injury last season wey also keep am out for long time.

But e retun to im best for di 2026 World Cup as e lead Spain to win di tournament and imsef also win di best player.

Last week Man City bin reject Barcelona first offer of £38.5m for Rodri, and at some time e bin look like say Real Madrid fit sign di midfielder, but Barcelona step up dia efforts to complete di signing.

To replace Rodri, tori be say Man City fit go for 18-year-old Morocco mildfielder Ayyoub Bouaddi wey dey currently play for Lille for France, and di price fit reach £85 million.

Bouaddi dey play as deep-lying midfielder just like Rodri, and e dey expected say e go partner well wit Elliot Anderson if Man City sign am from Nottingham Forest for record £116 million.

Oda top transfers wey don hapun dis window

Di £100 million plus transfers: E don get at least four transfers (three for di English Premier League) wey reach or pass di £100 million mark, and sabi pipo say dis transfer window fit break di record of di highest amount of money wey clubs spend for one single window.

Di transfers na:

Morgan Rogers - from Aston Villa to Chelsea - £117 million

Elliot Anderson - from Nottingham Forest to Manchester City - £116 million

Yan Diomande - from RB Leipzig to Real Madrid - £107 million

Sandro Tonali - from Newcastle United to Tottenham Hotspur - £100 million including add ons.

We fit still see anoda £100 million plus transfer for dis window, as tori dey tok say Liverpool dey willing to pay up to dat amount to PSG in oda to sign talented French winger, Barcola.

Di £60 million plus transfers: Again di EPL dey top for dis category wit three out of di four ogbonge transfer deals wey pass 60 million pounds.

Here na some of dem:

Mateus Fernandes - from West Ham to Tottenham – £85 million

Bruno Guimaraes - from Newcastle to Arsenal – £75 million

Anthony Gordon - Newcastle to Barcelona – £69 million

Goncalo Ramos - from Paris Saint-Germain to AC Milan – £63.7 million

Di £50 million plus transfers: One of di surprising moves so far dis season na wen Crysencio Summerville move from West Ham to Al-Hilal of Saudi Arabia for 55 million pounds.

Even though say West Ham bin go relegation last season, but big clubs like Manchester United and FC Roma of Italy bin show interest to sign di talented winger from The Netherlands.

However, wit weekly pay of £300,000 afta tax per week, di Saudi deal dey too good to ignore for player wey dey just 24 years old.

Here na di oda £50m+ transfers:

Jeremy Jacquet - from Rennes to Liverpool – £55 million

Jan Paul van Hecke - from Brighton to Tottenham – £52 million

Maxence Lacroix - from Crystal Palace to Chelsea – £52 million

Johan Manzambi - from Freiburg to Aston Villa – £50.97 million

Di £40 million plus transfers: Marc Cucurella joining Real Madrid from Chelsea for just £47.5 million pounds suppose be one of di transfers of di season.

Di left fullback na one of di stars for di Spain national team as dem win di World Cup for July, and sabi pipo say na beta business Madrid pull off to get Cucurella for dat price.

Oda big transfers wey pass £40m na:

Marco Palestra - from Atalanta to Chelsea – £47 million

Luka Vuskovic - from Tottenham to Brighton – £46 million

Geovany Quenda - from Sporting Lisbon to Chelsea – £44 million

Ismael Saibari - from PSV to Bayern Munich – £42.8 million

Nathaniel Brown - from Eintracht Frankfurt to Bayern Munich – £42.8 million

Also, di transfer of Youri Tielemans from Aston Villa to Manchester United for just £35 million, na beta deal wey plenty football experts don praise.

Di Belgium playmaker na tested and trusted EPL player and e join di Red Devils perhaps to replace Casemiro wey comot wen im contract end last season, and e fit play ogbonge role for di Old Trafford boys as dem return to Champions League football dis season.