Has Barcelona Found Its New Number 9 After Lewandowski?

Hamza Abdelkarim stated his lawsuit to go FC Barcelona's caller number 9 pinch a brace against Birmingham connected Friday.

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FC Barcelona had a caller fig deterioration its iconic number 9 garment connected Friday against Birmingham, for the first clip successful the post-Robert Lewandowski.

With the Pole having joined the Chicago Fire this summertime connected a free transportation pursuing 4 highly successful years successful Catalonia, the jersey donned by greats specified arsenic Luis Suarez, Samuel Eto’o and Ronaldo Nazario is vacant.

As a guidance to this, we’ve seen what truthful acold look to beryllium grounded pursuits of Julian Alvarez - aft he reportedly agreed to subordinate the Catalans for 5 years - and Bournemouth’s Junior Kroupi, who’s now retired for 3 to 4 months amid having to acquisition ft surgery.

Consequently then, Barça mightiness person to look in-house for its adjacent beforehand man, pinch a campaigner stepping guardant during Friday’s nonaccomplishment to Birmingham connected penalties.

Is Hamza Abdelkarim fresh to go Barcelona’s number 9?

With his indebtedness woody from Al Ahly made imperishable for a bargain $1.7 cardinal (€1.5 million) interest up of a World Cup run for Egypt, Hamza instantly joined Hansi Flick’s first squad group successful preseason training upon return to Catalonia.

As is communal each summer, Hamza is portion of a prime group of reserve and La Masia stars that get the chance to impressment the German, and who mightiness stay a portion of the elder fold arsenic we’ve antecedently seen pinch the likes of Marc Bernal and Marc Casado.

Through his 2 goals successful a 2-2 regular clip tie astatine St. Andrew’s Stadium, watched by erstwhile Birmingham academy merchandise and Real Madrid rival Jude Bellingham, Hamza surely took a measurement successful the correct guidance arsenic per becoming a portion of the furniture.

“Hamza is very humble and has a bully character. He ever tries to do his champion and has awesome potential. As a striker you person to look successful those situations wrong the container and coming he was there. That’s what I inquire of a nine,” said Flick station match.

While his first onslaught was a penalty, the second, arsenic implied by the manager, had Hamza pounce successful the box. Perfect positioning allowed him to deed location a rebound, erstwhile Roony Bardghji’s agelong scope changeable was parried into his path.

SPORT writes that contempt his young property of 18, the Egyptian is simply a “very mature player” pinch awesome beingness conditions and an “extraordinary goalscoring ability”.

Barcelona reportedly has nary uncertainty that he will footwear connected astatine the Spotify Camp Nou. Yet the mobility remains arsenic to whether he is the 9 they person been searching for yet failing to present successful fruitless pursuits connected the transportation marketplace - particularly erstwhile Ferran Torres is being linked to Paris Saint-Germain.