Barcelona star set to leave club
Javier Mascherano is set to leave Barcelona after nearly eight years. The Argentinian is most likely to join Chinese Super League side Hebei China Fortune.
The 33-year-old won as many as 18 trophies with the club, including four La Liga and two Champions League titles.
He had joined the club in 2010 from Liverpool for  £17m, and in 334 appearances, scored a solitary goal.
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According to the official Barcelona club website, Mascherano will be given a formal farewell by the club in the Auditori 1899, an event that will be attended by club president Josep Maria Bartomeu, as well as the first team squad.
There was a joke inside the club that Mascherano had, in his long career at Barcelona, never scored a single goal for the club. The defender famously ended the drought last season, when he scored off a penalty against Osasuna.
Mascherano will follow the ceremony with an appearance at the club’s Copa del Rey clash against Espanyol.
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