{"id":95517,"date":"2025-06-09T17:29:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T15:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weisetech.dev\/fc-barcelona-noticias\/en\/clement-lenglet-terminates-his-contract-with-fc-barcelona-and-is-free-to-sign-for-atletico-madrid_312998_102\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T09:35:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T07:35:14","slug":"clement-lenglet-terminates-his-contract-with-fc-barcelona-and-is-free-to-sign-for-atletico-madrid_312998_102","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fcbarcelonanoticias.com\/en\/transfers\/clement-lenglet-terminates-his-contract-with-fc-barcelona-and-is-free-to-sign-for-atletico-madrid_312998_102.html","title":{"rendered":"Lenglet is no longer a ‘cul\u00e9’: official termination"},"content":{"rendered":"

FC Barcelona and Cl\u00e9ment Lenglet agree to terminate his contract. The French center-back is now free and preparing to sign with Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid. “Here are the details of the agreement and its repercussions”<\/h2> \r\n
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After years of back and forth \u2014more like a summer soap opera than a professional defender\u2014 Cl\u00e9ment Lenglet<\/strong> and FC Barcelona<\/a><\/strong> have made their contractual divorce official. The Frenchman is free to sign with Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid<\/strong>, his last loaned team. An announced, necessary and, curiously, beneficial ending for everyone.<\/p>

End of cycle: Bar\u00e7a and Lenglet break their bond<\/h2>

Cl\u00e9ment Lenglet<\/a><\/strong> is no longer a player of FC Barcelona<\/strong>. The club and the French defender have reached an agreement in principle to terminate the contract that linked them until 2027.<\/strong> Behind are 160 official matches, three titles and a story increasingly distant from that exciting signing in 2018. What promised to be a perfect marriage ended up being a relationship of convenience\u2026 economic.<\/p>

The termination will allow the player to sign as a free agent with Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid<\/strong>, a team with which he has played this last season and where he has been a useful piece for Simeone<\/strong>. A verbal \u201cyes, I do\u201d<\/strong> that could become official before June 15,<\/strong> just in time to play the Club World Cup<\/strong> with the ‘colchoneros’.<\/p>

From promise to salary burden: a textbook case<\/h2>

Lenglet arrived at Bar\u00e7a in the midst of the post-Neymar effervescence, when the club still lived as if money sprouted from the lawn. His contract, with an annual salary of 16 million euros gross<\/strong>, became over the years more of a shackle than a medal.<\/p>

Neither Hansi Flick<\/strong> nor the current sports management counted on him, and his loan to Atl\u00e9tico (after two others to Tottenham and Aston Villa)<\/strong> was evidence that Bar\u00e7a saw him more as a file than as a project. Releasing salary mass was as urgent as it was inevitable.<\/p>

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Related<\/p>

Atl\u00e9tico sets the pace for Lenglet: complex conditions for Bar\u00e7a <\/a> <\/h4> <\/div> <\/section><\/div>

Everyone wins\u2026 or at least no one loses<\/h2>

The operation has been an exercise in realism: Lenglet accepted<\/p>

a strong salary reduction, Bar\u00e7a pays only a part of what is owed, and Atl\u00e9tico takes an experienced central defender without transfer cost. A love triangle resolved with pragmatism.<\/p>

The agreement leaves Bar\u00e7a with a little more financial air and Atl\u00e9tico with a token ready to perform from the first day of preseason. Lenglet, meanwhile, finally finds stability in a club where he has already proven to be useful, although not stellar.<\/p>

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Lenglet, from Camp Nou to Metropolitano<\/h2>

Lenglet’s journey at Bar\u00e7a went from more to less, like a wine that promised reserve but ended up in tetrapack. His departure leaves no tears or grudges, only the feeling that everything has followed its natural course.<\/p>

In an era where financial fair play is the new VAR, this type of departure is more a matter of survival than strategy. Lenglet will continue his career at Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid, and Bar\u00e7a continues to rebuild piece by piece, contract by contract.<\/p>

Cl\u00e9ment Lenglet’s honors at FC Barcelona: titles and legacy<\/h2>

He was not the most mediatic, nor the most acclaimed. But Cl\u00e9ment Lenglet knew how to leave his mark on the defense of FC Barcelona. Between ups and downs, the French defender accumulated minutes, titles and matches with a constancy that, in modern football, is almost a rarity.<\/p>

Cl\u00e9ment Lenglet’s titles with FC Barcelona<\/strong><\/p>

Cl\u00e9ment Lenglet was part of the FC Barcelona squad from the 2018-2019 season to the 2021-2022 season, a period of lights and shadows for both the club and the player. However, in that interval, the French central defender contributed to the achievement of three official titles:<\/p>