Rakitic signs contract and will wear number 4 shirt
Barça's latest signing puts pen to paper at the Camp Nou for five-year deal.
26-year-old Ivan Rakitic is officially a Barça player after signing his new five-year contract with the Club at the Camp Nou this morning . The Croat passed his medical at the Ciutat Esportiva before signing the contract in the presence of Club President Josep Maria Bartomeu, Vice-President Jordi Mestre and his family who accompanied him all morning.
In the official photo at the signing, Rakitic revealed he’d be taking the number 4 shirt in the squad, following in the footsteps of players such as Ronald Koeman, Josep Guardiola, Patrick Andersson and Rafa Márquez.