{"id":565919,"date":"2026-03-28T05:35:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T05:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/565919\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T05:35:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T05:35:06","slug":"barcelona-will-consider-selling-22-year-old-defender-only-if-big-offers-arrive-romano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/565919\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona will consider selling 22-year-old defender only if big offers arrive &#8211; Romano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In recent days, there has been a lot of <a href=\"https:\/\/barcauniversal.com\/barcelona-not-ruling-out-the-sale-of-homegrown-defender-amid-man-united-liverpool-interest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">speculation about the future of FC Barcelona left-back Alejandro Balde<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It has been suggested that the Catalans\u2019 sporting director, Deco, is considering the sale of the 22-year-old La Masia graduate in the summer while working on bringing in a new player in his position, such as Alejandro Grimaldo.<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona not actively looking to sell Balde, but big offers will be studied<\/p>\n<p>Providing an update on the whole situation, reliable transfer expert <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FL_5pYYbpjg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Fabrizio Romano<\/a> reports that Barcelona are not actively trying to offload Balde in the summer.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the Blaugrana have not placed the left-back on the market and still consider him an important part of the project being built by Hansi Flick.<\/p>\n<p>However, the situation could change if big financial offers arrive for the 22-year-old, who is attracting strong interest from clubs in the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"694\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/fc-barcelona-v-eintracht-frankfurt-uefa-champions-league-2025-26-league-phase-md6-4-1024x694.jpg\" alt=\"Alejandro Balde of FC Barcelona\" class=\"wp-image-195591\"  \/>Balde\u2019s future hanging in the balance. (Photo by Judit Cartiel\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>Considering that Balde is a homegrown player, selling him for a big fee would be a huge boost for Barcelona in terms of Financial Fair Play.<\/p>\n<p>As such, if significant offers come along for the La Masia graduate in the summer, Barcelona will not turn them down right away and give them some consideration.<\/p>\n<p>As mentioned earlier, clubs in the Premier League are looking at Balde as an option for the upcoming transfer window.<\/p>\n<p>Reports suggest that <a href=\"https:\/\/barcauniversal.com\/manchester-city-manchester-united-make-enquiry-for-barcelona-academy-graduate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Manchester City, Manchester United, and Aston Villa have all enquired<\/a> about the 22-year-old defender\u2019s situation.<\/p>\n<p>For now, though, there are no offers and no negotiations, with Barcelona not actively pushing for the sale of their homegrown defender, who has a contract with the club until 2028.<\/p>\n<p>Currently sidelined with a hamstring injury, Balde has played 34 matches in all competitions this season, registering three assists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In recent days, there has been a lot of speculation about the future of FC Barcelona left-back Alejandro&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[39262,1205,36226,49,48,12546,561,82],"class_list":["post-565919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-alejandro-balde","tag-barcelona","tag-barcelona-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fc-barcelona","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565919","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=565919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}