Barcelona activate the Braithwaite option and his agent is in Catalonia to negotiate Barcelona His release clause is set at 20m euros

Hasan Cetinkaya, the agent of Leganes forward Martin Braithwaite, is believed to be in the city of Barcelona to negotiate the player's transfer to Barcelona to replace Ousmane Dembele.

Given the length of Dembele's injury, Barcelona have been granted permission to make an emergency signing and Braithwaite is the player they're currently looking at.

That was reported by Mundo Deportivo earlier on Monday, before RAC1 broke the news of the player's agent being in the Catalan capital.

Cetinkaya has worked with the Blaugrana before, as he is also the agent of Frenkie de Jong.

Barcelona have 15 days to sign a player, but they want somebody sooner rather than later so that they can start working with Quique Setien and so that they can be available for the weekend's match against Eibar.

At Leganes, they will only let the 28-year-old player depart if his release clause of 20 million euros is paid.

If the Braithwaite option doesn't come to fruition then Barcelona know they also have the possibility of signing Angel Rodriguez from Getafe and Los Azulones may even be willing to negotiate on the terms of the transfer for the striker who has a release clause of 10m euros.