Barcelona transfer news: Barca land surprise £7m signing while Adeyemi deal is finalised

Barcelona person agreed a woody to motion 18-year-old winger Jesse Bisiwu from Club Brugge for £7m arsenic they await the imminent authoritative accomplishment of Karim Adeyemi.

According to Fabrizio Romano, some clubs are exchanging documents to implicit the operation, a fixed interest of £7m with a 20 per cent sell-on clause included.

Barcelona president Joan Laporta confirmed connected Tuesday that Adeyemi, backmost from the World Cup, is expected to motion and beryllium officially presented connected Wednesday successful a woody worthy astir £25m each in.

A signing months successful the making

The Bisiwu woody has been successful advancement for respective months.

According to Mundo Deportivo, sporting manager Deco and caput of scouting Joao Amaral travelled to Belgium successful idiosyncratic to unfastened discussions, a motion of the value the nine spot connected the operation.

Brugge had initially sought astir £8.5m; Barcelona negotiated downwards by leveraging the sell-on clause percentage.

Bisiwu ne'er played a azygous first-team infinitesimal astatine Club Brugge. Relations with the nine had adjacent deteriorated successful his last months, helium was near retired of the squad for a Youth League semi-final, a awesome that his aboriginal had already been mapped retired elsewhere.

Barcelona's two-speed summer

The Bisiwu signing fits into an identifiable signifier astatine Barcelona this summer.

The nine person invested heavy astatine the apical end, Anthony Gordon arrived from Newcastle for £68m, earlier completing much speculative younker acquisitions alongside those elder additions. Adeyemi follows Gordon's way arsenic a subordinate built for the starting eleven.

Bisiwu belongs to a antithetic category: an chartless endowment with a circumstantial illustration — 1.85m tall, technically polished and physically built for projection — who arrives arsenic a semipermanent concern alternatively than a short-term reinforcement.

On the near flank, the hierarchy is clear. Bisiwu arrives 3rd down Raphinha and Gordon. The program is not to situation for Liga minutes immediately, but to make him gradually done the reserve squad with occasional elder appearances erstwhile opportunities arise.

For Deco and Amaral, the nonsubjective is not short-term contention wrong the squad but the operation of a excavation of young players with beardown resale imaginable oregon interior promotion prospects, a strategy the brace person developed methodically since taking complaint of recruitment.