{"id":792878,"date":"2026-07-30T07:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T07:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/792878\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T07:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T07:08:10","slug":"barcelona-had-two-bids-for-eli-junior-kroupi-turned-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/792878\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona had two bids for Eli Junior Kroupi turned down"},"content":{"rendered":"

FC Barcelona has submitted two offers to AFC Bournemouth to sign Eli Junior Kroupi, both rejected, according to L\u2019Equipe<\/a>. Bar\u00e7a are looking for a new striker after Robert Lewandowski left. Their pursuit of Juli\u00e1n Alvarez from Atl\u00e9tico Madrid seems to have hit a wall, and Kroupi had emerged as a top alternative before a foot injury ended any hopes of a deal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to the report, the forward was excited to join the Catalans and had made it known to his agents. However, Bournemouth see an opportunity to extract maximum value if they decide to let him go. The exact proposed fees were not revealed, but it is said they are both under 100 million euro.<\/p>\n

Kroupi is rated highly by Barcelona\u2019s sporting director, Deco, and is reportedly appreciated by manager Hansi Flick as well. Atl\u00e9tico have been firm in rejecting advances for Alvarez, who despite showing some signs of rebellion, has not committed to taking the next step and doing something more drastic, such as not reporting for training. Failing that, Barcelona may be forced to give up if nothing changes on that front.<\/p>\n

Kroupi was the plan B that could move to plan A if that\u2019s the case, but the Catalans were wary of overspending for a player who, despite his immense potential, scored 13 goals in the Premier League last season – a respectable total, but not worth an earth-shattering transfer fee.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, it is said Paris Saint-Germain are out of the running for Kroupi entirely, and have turned their attention towards Barcelona\u2019s own Ferran Torres. Such a sale would put Bar\u00e7a in an interesting situation, as they would presumably need to replace two strikers, not just one.<\/p>\n

And even though pessimism has set in over Alvarez, the Catalans have not given up quite yet. Barcelona will continue pushing and hoping Atl\u00e9ti finally fold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FC Barcelona has submitted two offers to AFC Bournemouth to sign Eli Junior Kroupi, both rejected, according to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":792879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[49043,403,99],"class_list":["post-792878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-barcelona-transfer-rumors-news","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}