{"id":657951,"date":"2026-05-22T06:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T06:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/657951\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T06:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T06:33:10","slug":"barcelona-youngster-will-do-pre-season-under-hansi-flick-after-season-long-loan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/657951\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona youngster will do pre-season under Hansi Flick after season-long loan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hector Fort left Barcelona on loan in the summer hopping to garner minutes and <a href=\"https:\/\/barcauniversal.com\/he-cares-about-me-elche-defender-reveals-what-hansi-flick-told-him-after-barcelona-clash\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">further his development at Elche<\/a>, ultimately to force a return to Catalonia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A shoulder injury derailed a big part of his loan stint, but the numbers he put up in the remaining period have shown enough promise for Barcelona to consider a return.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The hurdle for Hansi Flick, however, is that Xavi Espart has also shown promise as a backup right-back and there is no room for both players.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fort\u2019s chance to impress\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As relayed by <a href=\"https:\/\/cadenaser.com\/nacional\/2026\/05\/21\/hamza-abdelkarim-revalorizacion-casi-instantanea-en-el-barca-cadena-ser\/?outputType=amp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Cadena SER<\/a> in a recent report, Fort has not done enough to secure a place in Hansi Flick\u2019s plans, but his performances have been enough to earn him an audition.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/fc-barcelona-v-daegu-fc-preseason-friendly-4-2-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"DAEGU, SOUTH KOREA - AUGUST 04: Hector Fort of FC Barcelona in action during the pre-season friendly between FC Barcelona and Daegu FC at Daegu Stadium on August 04, 2025 in Daegu, South Korea. (Photo by Han Myung-Gu\/Getty Images)\" class=\"wp-image-175137\"  \/>Hector Fort will be back under Flick\u2019s command in the summer. (Photo by Han Myung-Gu\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The young Spaniard, thus, will participate in Barcelona\u2019s preseason ahead of the new campaign and a decision will only be made thereafter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both Espart and Fort are thus likely to go directly head-to-head in a bid to impress Flick and earn a place in the first-team \u2013 something that will set up for an interesting high-stakes battle between the duo.<\/p>\n<p>Fort\u2019s loan spell<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hector Fort\u2019s loan stint at Elche was not earth-shattering, but the player showed significant promise in the opportunities he was handed when fit and available.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/elche-cf-v-real-madrid-cf-laliga-ea-sports-2-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Hector Fort, Elche star and Barcelona loanee\" class=\"wp-image-186349\"  \/>Hector Fort is currently on loan at Elche. (Photo by Angel Martinez\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was out from late December to late April and missed a significant part of the season. Yet, he racked up thirteen league appearances with seven starts and has two goals and two assists to his name.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He started and scored the team\u2019s only goal in Elche\u2019s recent clash against Real Betis. While he did not play a part in the subsequent game against Getafe, he could well play a part against Girona this weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hector Fort left Barcelona on loan in the summer hopping to garner minutes and further his development at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[418,49042,76599,268339,403,99,240354],"class_list":["post-657951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-barcelona","tag-barcelona-news","tag-elche","tag-hector-fort","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-xavi-espart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657951","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=657951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}