Barcelona signal Brazil ahead Kerolin from Manchester Metropolis for club-record £1.25m | Barcelona Girls

Barcelona have signed the Brazil ahead Kerolin from Manchester Metropolis for an undisclosed payment that sources say is within the area of £1.25m, which might signify the biggest sum obtained for a sale by a Girls’s Tremendous League facet.

The deal can be a club-record for Barcelona, and when it comes to a payment obtained by an English membership it eclipses the £1m that Liverpool obtained for the sale of Olivia Smith in Arsenal in 2025 and Melvine Malard’s newer £850,000 change from Manchester United to Chelsea.

Kerolin, 26, was a part of the Metropolis facet that received the WSL title and the Girls’s FA Cup final season and was with the membership for 18 months, after arriving from North Carolina Braveness in January 2025.

Metropolis have already added the England ahead Beth Mead to their squad this summer time, on a free switch from Arsenal.

The defending European champions Barcelona are understood to see Kerolin as a participant who can thrive within the Champions League and develop into an everyday goalscorer in that competitors along with her tempo and trickery on the ball.

An announcement from Barcelona, who mentioned goodbye to the Spain internationals Alexia Putellas, Mapi León, Ona Batlle and Salma Paralluelo this summer time, learn: “The signing of Kerolin Nicoli is one other clear assertion of FC Barcelona’s ambition. The membership stays dedicated to bringing collectively the very best gamers in world soccer with the purpose of staying on the high of the sport and persevering with to set the usual for excellence.

“The Brazilian worldwide arrives at probably the greatest moments of her profession to strengthen a squad constructed to compete for each trophy. Together with her expertise, creativity and talent to determine matches, Kerolin provides much more high quality to a group whose ambition stays unchanged: to problem for each title and, as soon as once more, attempt to win all of it.”