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Barcelona complete loan signing of Valencia defender Murillo

The Catalan club will sign the centre-back until the end of the season

 El central colombiano aseguró que algún día jugaría en el Barça cuando estaba cedido en Las Palmas / | EFE
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Valencia defender Jeison Murillo is now a Barcelona player. The two clubs have reached an agreement for the Colombian centre-back to move to Camp Nou on loan until the end of 2018-19 season. Now Barça just need to sign the agreement with Los Che and Murillo needs to pass a medical. 

Barça have been weighing up a short-term move for a centre-back and have decided on Murillo after Chelsea snubbed their advances for Danish international Christensen, who was the first option. The Catalan club wanted to finalise a deal as soon as possible and the availability of Murillo -- he's not playing at Mestalla -- helped rush things through. 

 

After saying goodbye to his teammates at Paterna -- he didn't take part in training -- Murillo set off Barcelona, where he could have a medical as soon as Thursday afternoon.