Bakambu admits that Barça wanted to sign him in January

The FC Barcelona combed the market in search of a '9' that it could replace to Luis Suárez​ in January. The charrúa lesionó and had to go through the operating theatre to solve his problems in the knee. After the operation confirmed his drop for practically what remained of season, an enormous work for the culés. The staff remained without his only '9' and then the club thought in reinforcing with a forward that covered this gap.

Rodrigo Moreno was the favourite, but Valencia asked too much and did not arrive to an agreement by him. Also it sounded with strength Willian José, of the Real Sociedad, and listened a lot the name of Ángel Rodríguez, tip of the Getafe. But the blaugrana looked also to the outside and thought in an old known of LaLiga like Cédric Bakambu. The ex of the Villarreal went to the Sinobo Guoan in 2018 by 40 million euros and in the Camp Nou had good his reports.

With 29 years, the Congolese was of the like of the Barça, but no more than other footballers that had sounded. At the end, the Catalans decided no fichar to any forward and remained with what had. But little later lesionó Ousmane Dembélé for several months and this forced to the culés to go to by another forward. They went back to sound many of the attackers that already had sounded in January, but the one who finish arriving was Martin Braithwaite, of the that had spoken very little.

Several months after all this, Bakambu has remembered how was his almost signing by the Barcelona. The one of Vitry-south-Seine desveló that the contacts with the barcelonistas were very real and left clear that did not suppose him a big disappointment not finish dressing the elastic Barcelona. "On the Barça, ​​that wanted to me fichar in the last window of signings of winter, that no me ficharan not even supposed a disappointment for me", commented for 'RFI'.

The ex of the Villarreal explained how gave everything, since for him was a big surprise that a so big club interested by him in these moments. "It had been a good prize, no expected it to me, were the last hours of the market and had other more concrete possibilities, but no sucedió", affirmed. Nevertheless, in spite of everything, that the Barça asked after he and rondara his signing has finished resulting very positive for him and for his ego.

The interest of the Barça motivated to Bakambu

"Besides, be one of the options of the Barça is very halagador and motivates me for the future, because I always have in a corner of my head the return to Europe. Know that a so big club thought in me multiplies my motivation. China is not a retreat, only have 29 years!", it signalled. These words leave the open doors to his return to Europe and it will be necessary to be attentive to see which teams ask after he. If it has not lost the speed and power that showed in Castellón, definitely will have spare beaux.