Barcelona scouting 19-year-old Ligue 1 'pearl' as Dani Olmo registration saga continues

Barcelona are allegedly keeping a adjacent oculus connected the advancement of Monaco sensation Eliesse Ben Seghir amid their struggles to re-register Dani Olmo with La Liga.

At present, Olmo cannot correspond La Blaugrana domestically aft the nine failed for a 3rd clip to registry him with La Liga for the 2nd fractional of the 2024-25 campaign.

Barcelona initially ran into difficulties trying to registry Olmo past summertime owed to breaching wage headdress regulations, which they worked astir by allocating the wages of the injured Andreas Christensen to Olmo.

Now, the Catalan giants are said to person brokered a €100m (£82.9m) woody to merchantability immoderate of their Camp Nou VIP boxes to a Qatari fund, supposedly presenting La Liga with grounds of that transaction.

However, the governing assemblage is not satisfied that Barcelona has met the indispensable regulations, leaving them astatine superior hazard of losing Olmo if claims that helium tin permission for escaped owed to a clause successful his declaration are accurate.

Barcelona plotting determination for 'Moroccan pearl' Ben Seghir

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Olmo's cause has moved to downplay speech that his lawsuit could permission Camp Nou, insisting that the erstwhile RB Leipzig antheral wants to proceed astatine Barcelona nary substance what, but it remains to beryllium seen however the registration saga volition conclude.

Should La Blaugrana and Olmo beryllium forced to spell their abstracted ways, Goal - via Mundo Deportivo - claims that Hansi Flick's broadside could effort to lure Ben Seghir to Camp Nou arsenic his successor.

The 19-year-old is seemingly 'under the magnifying glass' of the Catalan giants, who are pursuing a recruitment strategy focused connected younker and besides promoting the champion endowment successful the La Masia ranks.

Barcelona person reportedly been pursuing Ben Seghir since helium played 70 minutes successful Monaco's 2-1 Champions League triumph implicit the Blaugrana connected September 19, and the teen antecedently named 2 erstwhile Catalan stars arsenic his footballing idols.

"Neymar is my relation model. I emotion his state and his benignant of play. All the young players spot themselves reflected successful him. And, of course, there's Messi , whose quality to flooded an full squad is incredible," Ben Seghir told Onze Mondial.

Who is Barcelona-linked Ben Seghir?

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Promoted from the Monegasques younker strategy since joining the nine successful 2020, Ben Seghir is predominantly a near winger, but the 19-year-old is besides comfy successful the fig 10 relation and arsenic a centre-forward.

Ben Seghir is presently enjoying a breakthrough run astatine the Stade Louis II, banking 11 extremity contributions successful 23 appearances crossed each competitions, 7 of his ain and 4 assists.

A erstwhile France younker international, the 2005-born merchandise has since pledged allegiance to Morocco and was a portion of their bronze-medal winning squad astatine the 2024 Paris Olympics.

A January swoop volition beryllium challenging for the cash-strapped Catalans, arsenic Ben Seghir remains contracted to Les Monegasques until the summertime of 2027, having extended his declaration past January.

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