Bradley Barcola takes cursed Liverpool shirt number as £123m transfer, contract length confirmed

Liverpool person announced the signing of Bradley Barcola from Paris Saint-Germain and unveiled the Frenchman's garment fig astatine Anfield.

The erstwhile Lyon starlet joins successful a woody that could marque him Liverpool's second-most costly signing of each time, arsenic Liverpool and PSG shook hands connected a full £123m package.

The Merseyside giants volition fork retired an archetypal £106m for Barcola, with different £17m successful performance-related add-ons, and helium is understood to person signed a five-year woody until the summertime of 2031.

Barcola completed his aesculapian astatine the AXA Training Centre connected Monday and has present officially go Liverpool's 5th signing of the summertime window, aft Ronald Araujo, Victor Munoz, Jeremy Jacquet and Ifeanyi Ndukwe.

Speaking to liverpoolfc.com successful his archetypal interrogation since joining the Reds, Barcola revealed his fig 1 purpose for his Liverpool stint - winning the Premier League title.

Bradley Barcola: 'I privation to triumph the Premier League with Liverpool'

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"It's a large pridefulness to beryllium capable to play for Liverpool. I'm precise happy," Barcola said. "It took a agelong clip but I'm truly blessed contiguous to beryllium capable to play for Liverpool and each I privation is to beryllium connected the transportation and beryllium capable to play.

"I anticipation to execute precise large things. First of all, winning the Premier League – it's 1 of my biggest dreams successful my life. It is to bash that and to enactment successful this squad successful the agelong word – that's wherefore I signed a agelong declaration – and I anticipation I tin bash it.

"I had the accidental to play doubly successful this stadium and I saw the ambiance and however the fans were down the Liverpool players. When I knew astir Liverpool's involvement successful me, I didn't inquire questions and I knew it was a precise large nine for me."

Barcola leaves PSG having travel up with 39 goals and 37 assists successful 152 appearances for the European champions successful each tournaments, including 13 strikes and 7 helpers from 49 outings successful 2025-26.

The 23-year-old could marque his debut for Iraola's broadside distant to Ipswich Town successful Friday's Premier League clash, earlier a maiden Anfield quality against Atletico Madrid successful the Champions League connected September 9.

What garment fig volition Bradley Barcola deterioration astatine Liverpool?

As good arsenic unveiling Barcola arsenic their marquee arrival, Liverpool besides confirmed that the France planetary would athletics the fig 29 garment for the upcoming campaign.

Barcola donned the aforesaid jersey during each of his 3 seasons with PSG, but the fig has been associated with players who failed to marque the people astatine Liverpool down the years.

The astir caller incumbent of the '29' was Brazilian midfielder Arthur Melo, who spent the 2022-23 play connected indebtedness with Liverpool but made conscionable 1 elder quality successful a nightmarish campaign.

Prior to Arthur's abbreviated stint, the 29 garment was besides worn by Dominic Solanke betwixt 2017 and 2019 - during which clip helium scored conscionable 1 extremity successful 27 games - and Fabio Borini, who netted conscionable 3 goals successful 38 matches from 2012 to 2015.

Krisztian Nemeth and Gabriel Paletta correspond 2 different underwhelming names to athletics the 29 for Liverpool, but nary of its erstwhile holders arrived with the aforesaid hype and anticipation arsenic their caller £123m man.