Barcelona close in on signing 18-year-old Belgian pearl after €10m offer tabled

Barcelona scouted and signed Roony Bardghji last summer amid much hype, stealing the winger’s signing at a bargain fee as Lamine Yamal’s backup.

Unfortunately for him, however, the Catalans did not have many minutes to offer Bardghji and are even looking to sell the player this summer.

Concurrently, there is an ongoing operation to scout and sign a new young winger, one who can develop in the academy for a while and then make the jump up to the first team.

Club Brugge’s Jesse Bisiwu has emerged as a top target on that front with Deco and Joao Amaral already travelling to Belgium to discuss a potential move.

The offer hits Club Brugge

As reported in a recent update by SPORT, Barcelona have already made an offer of €10 million to Club Brugge for the player and are looking to seal an agreement at the earliest.

The Belgian club have rejected the initial offer but are not too far off with what they want.

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Contacts are ongoing between the two clubs and an agreement can be reached if Barcelona agree to allow Club Brugge to retain a high percentage of any future sale.

Bisiwu has already made it clear to his club that he will not renew his deal which expires next summer, and the club have been aware of his decision for a long time. They are thus open to him leaving and it is only the terms of the agreement that remain to be settled.

Deco and Amaral are directly handling all negotiations, and there is an agreement with the player to sign for four seasons.

After all, the young talent wanted only Barcelona and rejected several offers from the Premier League to fulfil his dream.

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What is the plan with Bisiwu?

Barcelona have had the young Belgian star on their radar for a long time, particularly from the Under-20 World Cup in Qatar where they even scouted Hamza Abdelkarim.

They see Bisiwu as a dynamic addition who can burst with pace, has great dribbling prowess and can prove to be a destructive left-footed winger.

As matters stand, the idea is that the new signing will join the subsidiary side and be part of their dynamics. The club, however, do see him as first-team quality and will look to utilise his potential as need be.