{"id":346128,"date":"2025-12-13T09:33:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T09:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/346128\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T09:33:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T09:33:07","slug":"chelsea-readying-winter-move-for-barcelona-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/346128\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea readying winter move for Barcelona star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t1<\/p>\n<p>A member of the midfield ranks at La Liga giants Barcelona has made his way back onto the transfer radar of English outfit Chelsea.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s according to Fichajes, who highlight Marc Casad\u00f3\u00a0as the player in question.<\/p>\n<p>Youngster Casad\u00f3\u00a0was of course hotly tipped for a move to west London this past summer, after Chelsea earmarked the 22-year-old as one of a number of potential signings from Hansi Flick\u2019s squad.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, no such move was forthcoming, but the Stamford Bridge brass have evidently not lost sight of Casad\u00f3.<\/p>\n<p>As per a report from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fichajes.net\/noticias\/chelsea-vuelve-carga-marc-casado-20251211.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Fichajes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The London club\u2019s strategy under Enzo Maresca includes strengthening the midfield, and Casad\u00f3 would fit into that plan.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The Spanish international has for his part fallen somewhat out of favour under Barcelona headmaster Hansi Flick across the season to date.<\/p>\n<p>All told, despite the seemingly endless injury problems in the Blaugrana\u2019s midfield ranks, Casad\u00f3 has been afforded a starting berth in just six of his side\u2019s La Liga fixtures.<\/p>\n<p>It nevertheless remains to be seen, though, if the Camp Nou brass would be open to a sale.<\/p>\n<p>Conor Laird \u2013 GSFN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1 A member of the midfield ranks at La Liga giants Barcelona has made his way back onto&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-346128","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}