PSG stated the signing was “totally in step with the membership’s sporting technique, which is closely centered on youth and expertise”.

Fernandez stated his transfer was a “second of big satisfaction” and PSG was “an enormous membership that I’ve adopted since I used to be a toddler and the place some nice legends have made historical past”.

In a separate publish on Instagram, he wrote: “After practically 4 unforgettable seasons, right this moment I’ve to make one of the vital troublesome selections of my life: saying goodbye to the membership that has been my house lately.”

Requested about Fernandez’s future earlier this month, Barca coach Hansi Flick stated younger gamers wanted to “reside for” the membership and urged {the teenager} can be making a mistake if he moved to France.

“We give them the chance to coach with us, to develop, daily, with the perfect gamers on the earth. We give them the chance, we give them the help, consider in them, the arrogance,” he stated.

“If you wish to play for Barca, then [do it] 100% together with your complete coronary heart.

“That is what I wish to say to everybody who’s now with us, or sooner or later with us, this should be 100%.

“These colors, it’s important to reside for them, that is what I wish to see. All of the others I do not need, that is what I can say.

“Generally you don’t agree with what they’re doing, however they’re 18, they’re sufficiently old to make the choices, they’ve folks round them.”