AS Monaco has announced the arrival of 22-year-old Spanish international Ansu Fati on a season-long loan from FC Barcelona, including an option to make the move permanent at the end of the 2025–26 campaign.

Born in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau, on 31 October 2002, Ansu Fati moved to Andalusia at age six and began playing at local club CDF Herrera before progressing through Sevilla’s youth academy. In 2012, he joined FC Barcelona’s famed La Masia and made his senior debut for the club on 25 August 2019, aged just 16. On 10 December that year, he entered the history books as the youngest goalscorer in UEFA Champions League history – netting the winner in a 2–1 triumph over Inter Milan, aged 17 years and 40 days.

Fati completed the 2019–20 season with more than 30 appearances and eight goals, and was runner-up for the prestigious Golden Boy award. Over his Barcelona career, he featured in 123 matches, scored 29 goals, and contributed eight assists, helping the club to two La Liga titles (2023, 2025), two Copa del Rey triumphs (2021, 2025), and two Supercopa de España victories (2023, 2025).

To further his development, Fati spent the 2023–24 season on loan at Brighton & Hove Albion in the Premier League, where he made 27 appearances, scored four goals, and added one assist.

Internationally, Fati debuted for Spain in 2020, went on to play in the 2022 FIFA World Cup, and was part of the squad that won the UEFA Nations League in 2023.

This season, Ansu Fati will make his Ligue 1 debut in Monaco’s colours, bringing pace, creativity, and youth to an AS Monaco attack in search of renewed impetus.

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