Wolfsburg have signed Aleksandr Hleb on a one-year loan from Barcelona, the La Liga club have announced on their website.

The 30-year-old Belarus international has been sent out on loan for the last two seasons, at Stuttgart and Birmingham City, having played 36 competitive games for Barça during the 2008/09 campaign after joining the Catalan club from Arsenal.

A statement on the Barça website read: "The player, currently recovering from an injury, will be incorporated into the German team in October, [Barcelona vice-president] Josep Maria Bartomeu has confirmed."

Hleb becomes the 12th new arrival at Wolfsburg this summer.