Barcelona agree £36.4m fee for former Tottenham midfielder Paulinho from Guangzhou Evergrande
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Barcelona have agreed a deal to sign Paulinho in a deal worth £36.4million.
The former Tottenham midfielder will move from Chinese Super League side Guangzhou Evergrande, where he has been plying his trade for two years.
A medical has been scheduled for Thursday with the player to be unveiled on the same day.
A buy-out clause in his new deal with the Blaugrana has been set at €120m (£109.2m).
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Barca have been chasing the Brazilian international all summer and initially opened bidding with a £17million approach.
But they will pay more than double that, as they enter the transfer market for the first time since Neymar's departure to Paris Saint-Germain.
Paulinho moved to China in 2015 after a disappointing spell with Spurs in the Premier League.
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After joining in a £17million deal from Corinthians, Paulinho struggled to make an impact at White Hart Lane.
He has, however, impressed during his short spell in China, earning a recall to the Brazilian national team in the process and catching the attention of Barcelona scouts.
Paulinho's international team-mate Philippe Coutinho remains a target for Barcelona, despite Liverpool insisting that they will not part with their prized possession.
The Reds turned down Coutinho's transfer request on Friday.
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Coutinho responded to a statement issued by Reds bosses FSG , which definitively started he would not be sold during the current transfer window under any circumstance for any price - by slapping in his demand to leave.
It is understood the player's representatives suggested privately he would be submitting the request at lunch time, and that duly followed, with the player himself sending an email to the club setting out a formal transfer request.
Coutinho missed Liverpool's opening game of the season at Watford through injury.