Champions League title on Saturday<\/a>.<\/p>\nIt was her fourth European crown with the club, winning 38 trophies in total, including 10 league titles.<\/p>\n
The midfielder scored a club record 232 goals in 507 appearances, and is second on the all-time appearance list – just nine behind Melanie Serrano on 516.<\/p>\n
Sources close to London City Lionesses, who finished sixth in their debut season in the Women’s Super League, say there is confidence they can strike a deal to bring Putellas to the club this summer. They have been in discussions with her for several months.<\/p>\n
Putellas won the World Cup with Spain in 2023 and was part of the squad that finished runners-up to England at Euro 2025.<\/p>\n
She was ruled out of Euro 2022 on the eve of the tournament with an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury and returned at the end of the following season.<\/p>\n
Since her return to full fitness, Putellas has shown the types of performances that earned her back-to-back Ballon d’Or accolades in 2021 and 2022.<\/p>\n
She leaves Barcelona as a legend of the club and it marks the end of a significant era for Pere Romeu’s side.<\/p>\n
“I said I wanted the final moment to come when I was at my best, giving everything and with 100 percent energy,” Putellas said on Instagram.<\/p>\n
“That’s it, now it’s time. It has been a perfect story…<\/p>\n
“[At six years old] I only saw men playing in the stadium and it would never have occurred to me that one day, in that very same place, more than 90,000 cules [Barcelona fans] would be shouting my name.<\/p>\n
“We have taken the women’s team further than we ever could have imagined.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two-time Ballon d’Or winner Alexia Putellas has announced she is leaving Barcelona after 14 years, with London City…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-696462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}