Barcelona want record-breaking Premier League forward despite severe injury setback?

Barcelona person reportedly not pulled the plug connected a imaginable determination for Bournemouth attacker Junior Kroupi.

The 20-year-old suffered a superior wounded setback earlier this month, with the Bournemouth guardant expected to beryllium sidelined for up to 4 months aft breaking his ft whilst connected pre-season duty.

Focusing connected the Barcelona cause, Hansi Flick's broadside are presently successful England connected a week-long grooming campy and face disconnected against Championship broadside Birmingham City astatine St Andrew's @ Knighthead Park connected Friday night.

The Second City venue has sold retired for the sojourn of the five-time Champions League winners, who volition beryllium without 8 of their World Cup-winning Spaniards for the affable clash nether the lights.

That being said, determination is inactive plentifulness for the St Andrew's assemblage to beryllium excited about, with Karim Adeyemi successful enactment to marque his Barca debut aft securing a high-profile summertime power from Borussia Dortmund.

Barcelona stay keen connected Bournemouth's Kroupi?

According to Spanish outlet SPORT, Barcelona are not retired of the contention for Bournemouth leader Kroupi contempt his cruel wounded setback sustained whilst retired connected a pre-season campy with the Cherries.

The study claims that Barca nine president Joan Laporta is inactive a monolithic advocator for the thought of bringing the 20-year-old to Camp Nou, wherever the Spanish giants are looking to the capable the guardant void caused by Robert Lewandowski's departure.

Laporta is supposedly specified a instrumentality of Kroupi that helium mightiness adjacent similar his nine to motion the Frenchman implicit Atletico Madrid and Argentina superstar Julian Alvarez, who is proving highly hard to prize distant from the Metropolitano.

It is understood that Barca presumption Kroupi arsenic a semipermanent investment, meaning that they are consenting to woody with the player's existent wounded problems to reap the rewards of his accomplishment implicit the people of the adjacent fewer years.

Bournemouth person repeatedly stated that the youngster is practically untouchable this summer, with the South Coast nine reportedly placing an eye-watering £85m valuation connected the attacker.

Record-breaking Kroupi

Finding the nett connected 13 occasions crossed 35 top-flight matches past play for Bournemouth, Kroupi became the highest-scoring teen successful a azygous run successful the Premier League's history.

After taking to arguably the champion league successful satellite shot similar a duck to water, it is nary astonishment that the 20-year-old is being courted by immoderate of Europe's biggest clubs, including Spanish champions Barcelona.

Flick's broadside are present plotting Champions League glory aft keeping Real Madrid astatine bay connected the home country implicit the past 2 years, and Kroupi could beryllium a monolithic portion of that Catalonian project.