Barcelona seeks to strengthen its attack plot. In addition to the loan of Joao Félix, the Barça club is working on another operation to add one more player to the front. In the last hours, the option that Cavani could arrive yielded. Nevertheless, said movement seems very complicated, so the Barça sports management is working on another option. That The ‘covered’ player is Cedric Bakambú. The Congolese forward currently plays for Beijing Sinobo Guoan, a club with which he ends his contract next December, so his price would be very low.
Bakambú is an old acquaintance of the Spanish League, since he played for Villarreal for three seasons, from 2015 to 2018. With the Castellón club he played 105 games and scored 47 goals. The arrival of Bakambú would serve to fulfill Koeman’s request in order to reinforce the position of center forward. With his current club, he has 58 goals in 87 games, an average of 0.67 goals per game.
The contacts to sign Bakambú have taken place at the same time that the club has become interested in the loan of Joao Félix. The Atlético midfielder is a wish of Joan Laporta himself, to whom he has a great friendship with the player’s agent, Jorge Mendes. Barcelona has been evaluating this possibility for weeks, but it could not be faced until the salary mass was released.
