{"id":156612,"date":"2025-09-20T07:38:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T07:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/156612\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T07:38:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T07:38:17","slug":"barcelona-sporting-director-deco-confident-in-frenkie-de-jong-renewal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/156612\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona Sporting Director Deco confident in Frenkie de Jong renewal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Barcelona\u2019s sporting director Deco expressed optimism about securing Frenkie de Jong\u2019s contract extension while highlighting the club\u2019s ambitions for the season. Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lance.com.br\/futebol-internacional\/deco-faz-balanco-da-janela-do-barcelona-e-por-em-duvida-futuro-de-lewandowski.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lance<\/a>, he noted that negotiations with De Jong are moving well and emphasized the Dutch midfielder\u2019s importance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cWe are in conversations. I believe we will reach an agreement. He is an important player for us. I think he is happy at Barcelona, and we are also happy with him. So I don\u2019t think there will be any problem,\u201d Deco said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Deco also touched on Robert Lewandowski\u2019s situation, saying the veteran striker will likely make decisions year by year given his age.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cRobert was important and he still is for us. I also think that, given his age and his career, he will live year by year. There comes a time in a career when you don\u2019t make many long-term plans. I think he is focused on this year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Reflecting on the summer transfer window, Deco said the priority was to keep key players like Lamine Yamal, Raphinha, and Jules Kound\u00e9, while the arrival of goalkeeper Joan Garcia was prompted by Marc-Andr\u00e9 ter Stegen\u2019s past injuries. New signings Marcus Rashford and Roony Bardghji were praised for their versatility and potential, respectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Looking to the 2025\u201326 campaign, Deco named the UEFA Champions League as the primary goal, while acknowledging the strength of rivals such as Liverpool, Real Madrid, and Paris Saint-Germain. He highlighted the importance of progressing step by step, especially ahead of Barcelona\u2019s clash with Luis Enrique\u2019s PSG.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cIt will be a good and attractive game, but it is more of a qualification game. We have to go game by game. There\u2019s no use dreaming of the Champions League if you don\u2019t get through the group stage. It\u2019s a good game, but we will try to earn points to achieve our goal, which is to qualify,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barcelona\u2019s sporting director Deco expressed optimism about securing Frenkie de Jong\u2019s contract extension while highlighting the club\u2019s ambitions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[36227,49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-156612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-barcelona-transfer-rumors-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}