Manchester City, Chelsea and Newcastle ‘rival Barcelona’ for Dutch teenage defender

Throughout the January switch window, FC Barcelona confirmed curiosity in younger Ruud Nijstad (18). The Catalan membership did not finalise the deal and will come to remorse it this summer season.

The curiosity within the Dutchman is a part of a brand new Barcelona technique specializing in younger gamers. Certainly, the La Liga champions are making a number of approaches for promising skills of a sure age: Hamza Abdelkarim (18) will quickly depart Al Ahly for Catalonia, as will Patricio Pacifico (19), whereas Ajay Tavares (16) and Juwenley Onstein (18) are additionally within the pipeline. There are additionally “discussions” for Jesse Bisiwu (18).

Nijstad is one other very younger goal (18) for the Spanish membership, and in line with Wfcgroningen, Barca have been making an attempt for a number of weeks to persuade the defender to not prolong his contract with Twente, which expires in June 2027.

Barca competing with the Premier League and Bundesliga for Nijstad

For his or her half, TEAMTalk report that quite a few golf equipment have joined FC Barcelona within the race for the Dutchman. Having made 10 appearances for Twente this season, the left-footer is of curiosity to Manchester Metropolis, in addition to Chelsea and Newcastle United within the Premier League.

Moreover, the Bundesliga have additionally noticed Nijstad: Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund and RB Leipzig have an interest within the participant.

As reported by the British outlet, FC Barcelona hesitated to spend £8.5m (€10m) on the defender this winter, as requested by Twente. And now, the gem may slip away from the Catalan membership.

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Barca to be overwhelmed by Chelsea, Manchester Metropolis or Bayern Munich?

Certainly, this technique of focusing on kids with excessive potential who haven’t but totally damaged by way of locations Barca in a market the place costs haven’t exploded.

The Spanish membership primarily need to recruit well, although some targets, similar to Alessandro Bastoni (Inter), require breaking the financial institution – Barca nonetheless don’t seem ready to finalise a deal for the Italian.

For Nijstad, the hope is that the participant shall be satisfied by the Catalan membership’s pitch, which plans to signal the defender and initially ship him to the reserve crew earlier than selling him to the primary crew if his early steps are passable.

TEAMTalk report that this plan has not satisfied the participant himself for now. FC Barcelona subsequently seem much more on the mercy of the competitors.