{"id":788958,"date":"2026-07-28T08:37:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T08:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/788958\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T08:37:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T08:37:11","slug":"joao-cancelo-set-to-rejoin-al-hilal-for-pre-season-as-defender-waits-on-barcelona-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/788958\/","title":{"rendered":"Joao Cancelo set to rejoin Al-Hilal for pre-season as defender waits on Barcelona move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.barcablaugranes.com\/fc-barcelona-transfer-rumors-news\/125835\/barcelona-hoping-to-complete-joao-cancelo-deal-after-portugals-world-cup-exit\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joao Cancelo<\/a> is set to link back up with Al-Hilal this week as the Saudi Pro League club continue pre-season preparations in Austria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The defender has been enjoying some time off after World Cup 2026 but is due back on Wednesday, according to the latest from <a href=\"https:\/\/arriyadiyah.com\/896669\/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%A1..-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%87%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%84-%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%82%D8%A8%D9%84-%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%88\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arriyadiyah<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Barcelona are still hoping to complete a permanent deal for Cancelo, following another successful loan stint last season, but are yet to reach an agreement with Al-Hilal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The report adds that Al-Hilal are open to offers to buy out Cancelo\u2019s contract which still has a year left to run.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Cancelo is also keen to move on and has made no secret of his affection for Barcelona. He arrived back at Barcelona for a second stint last winter and went on to play 23 matches, scoring twice and adding three assists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Portugal international forced his way into Hansi Flick\u2019s starting XI in the second half of the season and will be hoping an agreement can be reached this summer for him to continue with the club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joao Cancelo is set to link back up with Al-Hilal this week as the Saudi Pro League club&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":788959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[49043,403,99],"class_list":["post-788958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-barcelona-transfer-rumors-news","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788958","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=788958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/788959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}