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Barcelona’s mission to signal a brand new goalkeeper in the summertime is basically stemmed from the learnings after Marc-Andre Ter Stegen’s season-ending harm.
With solely Inaki Pena as a backup possibility, the Blaugrana have been compelled to enter the market and signal Wojciech Szczesny who had just lately retired. The Polish star, nevertheless, will depart in June and there’s a want for a long-term alternative.
Whether or not or not the Catalans signal a brand new participant in the summertime will largely boil right down to the teen’s performances in aim this season and Ter Stegen’s restoration. At current, the scouting is nicely underway.
An possibility in England
As relayed in a current report by SPORT, Brighton and Hove Albion goalkeeper Bart Verbruggen has emerged as a possible goal for Barcelona and is on the membership’s radar.
Barcelona present curiosity in Verbruggen. (Photograph by Matt McNulty/Getty Photos)
Simply 22 years of age, the teen has already established himself because the mainstay for each Brighton and the Dutch nationwide crew. He moved to England in 2023 in a switch price €20 million and has proven nice high quality since then.
In seven Premier League appearances thus far this season, Verbruggen has conceded 1.6 objectives per sport and averages a surprising 3.3 saves each 90 minutes. In that period, he has additionally overseen two clear sheets.
Verbruggen is simply one of many gamers being scouted by the Catalans and his present contract at Brighton runs till 2028. Nevertheless, Joan Laporta and Co. see him as a viable goal in financial phrases.
In spite of everything, their prime goal, Porto’s Diogo Costa, is on the radars of Chelsea, Manchester Metropolis and Bayern Munich and can probably price north of €50 million, a sum not possible in Catalonia in the intervening time.
