Barça, close to closing two truly luxury signings

The most intense activity these days in the offices of the Barça basketball.

After announcing, in the last two days, up to a total of seven casualties (Miles Norris, Myles Cale, Juani Marcos, Tomas Satoransky, Willy Hernangómez, Youssuopha Fall and Nico Laprovittola, in addition to Jan Vesely, who announced his retirement days ago at the end of the season), and in the absence of knowing what will happen to Will Clyburnwith a +1 option in their contract, the Barça team is working, in parallel, in the incorporation section.

In the absence of official confirmation, the signings of the centers would already be closed Moses Wright and Josh Nebothe power forward Olivier Nkamhoua and the base Justin Robinsonand very close to completing that of the also base Umoja Gibson.

Therefore, some reinforcement would be missing in the forward position, especially if Clyburn finally ends up leaving the team.

In this sense, two names related to the Barça team emerged yesterday. And they weren’t just any players, but two of the best forwards in the Euroleague.

Chronologically, he was the second to appear on stage, but he was the real ‘bomb’ of the afternoon and he dropped it Lucas Clemente, contributor to Mundo Deportivo, who reported, through his ‘X’ account, that Barça had taken the lead in signing the Baskonia forward, Timothé Luwawu-Cabarrot, a player who had already been linked to Barça on previous occasions, but who had several offers from other Euroleague teams (ASVEL, Real Madrid,…) and seemed far from the Barça club’s reach.

And the Frenchman (31 years old and 1.98 meters tall) has had an excellent season with the Vitorian team, finishing as the top scorer in the Endesa League and posting averages of 18.1 points, 3.8 rebounds and 16.6 average rating.

In the Euroleague, his numbers have been very similar: 18.2 points, 3.4 rebounds and 16.4 efficiency, placing him among the best players in the competition.

According to this information, The agreement between the player and the Catalan team is total, awaiting the position adopted by Baskonia, which would have the right of first refusal.

Furthermore, he also adds that with the arrival of Pedro Martínez, Real Madrid, very interested in the Frenchman, I would have rejected the option of incorporating him.

But before the TLC ‘bomb’, another name came to the fore as a future prospect for Barça: Isaac Bonga.

The athletic German forward has experience in the NBA and this last season he played for Partizan Belgrade, where he averaged 9.9 points, 5.6 rebounds and a PIR of 14.3 in the Euroleague.

Like Luwawu-Cabarrot, Bonga has also been linked to Barça on several occasions, but like the Frenchman, the fact of having several proposals from ‘top’ teams in the Euroleague, such as Panathinaikosand the player’s initial desire to explore his options of returning to the NBA, seemed to rule him out as a possible addition to the Barça team.

But yesterday the account specialized in the current situation of the Barça team’s basketball team ‘FCB Basket News’ he announced that Barça had reached an agreement with Isaac Bonga and that, if there were no last-minute setbacks, the German forward would be a Barça player next season.

If confirmed, they would be two truly luxurious additions for a Barça 2026/27 that in the coming days he must begin to announce the new additions and reveal, above all, the name of the next Barcelona coach.