Hansi Flick already had Lamine Yamal and Raphinha waiting up front when Barcelona’s board set out to reshape the rest of the attack this summer. Anthony Gordon, Karim Adeyemi and Jesse Bisiwu arrived through three separate deals, spanning an immediate replacement, a proven finisher in his prime and a teenager signed for what he might become. Gordon, in fact, was the club’s first official signing of the 2026/27 season.
Gordon was the first of the three through the door, announced on May 29, 2026, on a five-year contract with Newcastle United that runs through 2031. He is a 25-year-old English left winger, and his 152 appearances, 39 goals and 21 assists at Newcastle, including a team-high 17 goals last season, formed the production base Barcelona bought before his departure. England’s Thomas Tuchel had already called him into the national side off the back of that same campaign.
Adeyemi followed in late July, signed from Borussia Dortmund on July 23, 2026, on a deal running to June 2031. The fee was set at 22 million euros with up to 7 million more in add-ons, close to R$167.5 million in total, and Barcelona agreed to hand Dortmund 20% of any future resale, a structure that has become part of how modern transfer contracts get written.
At 24, the German winger already holds the outright Bundesliga speed record, clocked at 36.65 km/h back in 2023, and he can operate off either flank or through the middle as a central striker. Across his career with Red Bull Salzburg and Dortmund he put together 69 goals and 49 assists, a tally that stands out even measured against how attacking output gets weighed by expected goals.
“The main reason I’m here is Flick, I’ve talked to him from the first moment and he had explained to me what he needed and what he wanted from me and I’m here for whatever I need,” Adeyemi said.
The relationship goes back further than this transfer. Flick gave Adeyemi his senior Germany debut in 2021, in a match against Armenia in which the forward scored, and it was Flick and sporting director Deco who pushed the deal through this summer.
Bisiwu is the outlier of the three, an 18-year-old Belgian forward signed from Club Brugge in the summer of 2026, born January 22, 2008, and younger than either of Barcelona’s other new arrivals by several years. The club’s own profile describes him as a player who stands out for his dribbling and his powerful running, and it does not disclose the length of his contract.
He was named to the tournament squad at the 2025 European Under-17 Championship, where Belgium reached the semifinals, and he scored three goals in 14 UEFA Youth League appearances for Club Brugge’s under-19 side across the 2024/25 and 2025/26 seasons. He also logged 36 games for Club NXT, Brugge’s development team, in Belgium’s second division, a tally from a separate competition entirely.
Adeyemi’s arrival carries its own asterisk. He was left out of Germany’s squad for the 2026 World Cup after recurring injuries disrupted his consistency at Dortmund.
Taken together, the sequence of the three deals traces the reformulation of Flick’s attack: Gordon’s arrival on May 29 and Adeyemi’s on July 23 came weeks apart, while Bisiwu, born in 2008, was signed last as part of the same rebuild alongside Yamal and Raphinha.
Barcelona’s paperwork on the youngest of the three remains the least detailed of the trio. The club has confirmed Bisiwu’s move from Club Brugge and published his official player profile, but it has not said how long his contract runs, unlike the multi-year terms already disclosed for Gordon and Adeyemi.
