President Joan Laporta spoke about Barcelona’s intention to bring three new massive signings in January, in recent months the most talked about and written about were the names of Raheem Sterling and Dani Olmo, but the first signing in the winter transfer window could be the talented Karim Adeyemi.Both Marca and Mundo Deportivo broadcasted the exclusive information initially reported by German media Sport 1, which claims that the Camp Nou giant intends to offer 45 million USD in order to sign the teenage sensation from Red Bull Salzburg.If these allegations are to be believed, Barca mean serious business by offering twice as much as Transfermarkt estimates for Adeyemi. However, the Catalan club cannot take for granted that Adeyemi will sign even if Salzburg accepts the offer. The reason is the huge interest in the 19-year-old, most coming from Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund.Sat, 23.00: (1.40) BARCELONA (4.90) ESPANYOL (9.00)In the period between the ages of eight and ten, Adeyemi was a member of the Bavarian football academy, and he himself stated in the previous months that he would like to play at the Allianz Arena. Adeyemi was born in Munich, to a Nigerian father and Romanian mother. He is a youth international for Germany, having represented the Germany U16s, U17s, and U21s. He debuted with the senior Germany national team in a 6–0 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification win over Armenia on 5 September 2021, coming on as a late sub and scoring his side’s 6th goal in the 90’+1 minute.Barcelona are struggling with their attacking options this season and desperately need a goal scorer. There is a huge question of Sergio Aguero returning to the pitch, at all (heart arrhythmia), Martin Braithwaite is still recovering from a knee injury and should be back in January, the experiment with the loan of Luc de Jong from Seville proved to be unsuccessful and the club plans to send him back to Ramon Sanchez Pishuan in January already. To top it all off – at the same time, one of the biggest hopes in the offensive, Ansu Fati, picked up a knee injury after a great start of the season.Aguero’s heart condition will force him to early retirement, Spanish media reportsIf 11 goals and one assist in 13 games of the Austrian Bundesliga are not enough to grade the quality of a guy who grew up with Bayern, then his performances in the Champions League this season certainly are. After four rounds, Adeyemi already has three goals and one assist, but also the title of the only football player in the history of the European elite who won three penalties in one half. He did so against Sevilla in the first round of the group stage.Since the summer of 2019, when he started playing for Salzburg, Adeyemi has recorded 72 appearances, 25 goals and 17 assists in all competitions. It is obvious that this kid is growing up, becoming independent and is ready to take on one of the ‘top five’ leagues. We’ll see if Spanish La Liga will be ‘the one’.
