{"id":2262,"date":"2016-09-01T19:17:54","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T19:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=2262"},"modified":"2016-09-01T19:17:54","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T19:17:54","slug":"barcelona-signs-striker-paco-alcacer-as-backup-for-suarez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2016\/09\/01\/barcelona-signs-striker-paco-alcacer-as-backup-for-suarez\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona signs striker Paco Alcacer as backup for Suarez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dhaka\u00a0 \u2013 Barcelona strengthened its already top-class attack by signing Spain striker Paco Alcacer from rival Spanish club Valencia on Tuesday in a deal worth at least 30 million euros ($33.5 million).Alcacer, who turned 23 on Tuesday, joins a Barcelona lineup featuring Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and Neymar. He will likely play a backup role to Suarez, filling the void created last year after the<br \/>\ndeparture of Pedro Rodriguez to Chelsea,UNB News Agency Reported.<br \/>\n<span id=\"more-104848\"><\/span>\u201cMessi, Neymar and Suarez are the three best players in the world,\u201d Alcacer said. \u201cIt will be a privilege to play with them. I hope I can<br \/>\ndo my part to do great things at Barca.\u201dAlcacer signed a five-year contract after passing a medical exam.Barcelona said it will pay 30 million euros ($33.5 million), plus a possible 2 million euros ($2.2 million) more in variables, to Valencia.The Liga champions also said they are loaning forward Munir El Haddadi to Valencia, which will have the option to buy his rights next summer for 12 million euros.Alcacer scored 43 goals in the past three seasons at Valencia.For Spain, Alcacer has scored six goals in 13 matches. He was dropped by former Spain coach Vicente del Bosque for this summer\u2019s European Championship, but new manager Julen Lopetegui has recalled Alcacer for this week\u2019s international matches, including Spain\u2019s first 2018 World Cup qualifier against Liechtenstein.He is Barcelona\u2019s sixth summer signing, along with fellow ex-Valencia midfielder Andre Gomes, Samuel Umtiti, Denis Suarez, Lucas Digne and goalkeeper Jasper<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dhaka&nbsp; &ndash; Barcelona strengthened its already top-class attack by signing Spain striker Paco Alcacer from rival Spanish club Valencia on Tuesday in a deal worth at least 30 million euros ($33.5 million).Alcacer, who turned 23 on Tuesday, joins a Barcelona lineup featuring Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and Neymar. He will likely play a backup role to Suarez, filling the void created last year after the departure of Pedro Rodriguez to Chelsea,UNB News Agency Reported. &ldquo;Messi, Neymar and Suarez are the three best players in the world,&rdquo; Alcacer said. &ldquo;It will<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2263,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2264,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262\/revisions\/2264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}