{"id":54009,"date":"2025-08-08T07:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T07:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/54009\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T07:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T07:49:09","slug":"barcelona-will-not-sign-unless-left-footed-defender-meets-financial-and-quality-demands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/54009\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona will not sign unless left-footed defender meets financial and quality demands"},"content":{"rendered":"

FC Barcelona is expected to lose Inigo Martinez this summer<\/a>. Recent reports have clarified that much, and the club will now need to figure out an alternative plan. While a new signing is not guaranteed, it is not completely ruled out either.<\/p>\n

According to a recent update provided by SPORT<\/a>, Bar\u00e7a seems to have a very specific profile in mind if they are to sign a new player. For starters, the player would have to be left-footed and also have a defensive profile.<\/p>\n

Barcelona has very specific demands\"JEDDAH,Inigo Martinez is expected to leave Barcelona this summer. (Photo by Yasser Bakhsh\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

The club is reportedly looking for a left-footed central defender who can also operate as a full-back. However, the deal would need to be a financially viable one, considering that the club is already dealing with some limitations in that regard.<\/p>\n

However, it is true that Hansi Flick has always wanted to reinforce the full-back position, and this could now be an opportunity to do so.<\/p>\n

Moreover, Bar\u00e7a would reportedly only move for a player who can offer a high enough quality to contribute to the squad. Until and unless both the financial and quality-based demands are met, La Blaugrana will not be moving for any player.<\/p>\n

For now, the club has Ronald Araujo, Andreas Christensen, Pau Cubarsi, and Eric Garcia as centre-back options. Among them, there is not a single left-footed player, and that is why the club could look specifically for a player who possesses that trait.<\/p>\n

At the same time, however, a player who has that trait is Gerard Martin. Interestingly, he was tested out by Hansi Flick during preseason as a centre-back, and the Spaniard proved that he could play in that position and offers a kind of versatility<\/a> that Flick seems to admire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FC Barcelona is expected to lose Inigo Martinez this summer. Recent reports have clarified that much, and the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-54009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54009","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=54009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}