{"id":801289,"date":"2026-08-03T14:38:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T14:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/801289\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T14:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T14:38:14","slug":"we-know-we-have-to-do-something-hansi-flick-talks-barcelonas-search-for-a-striker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/801289\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWe know we have to do something\u201d &#8211; Hansi Flick talks Barcelona\u2019s search for a striker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Barcelona manager Hansi Flick spoke to the press after the squad\u2019s final session of their training camp in England, and much of the conversation was about the club\u2019s search for a new striker.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Catalans are still dreaming of Juli\u00e1n \u00c1lvarez but have also been linked with a number of other names, and Ferran Torres\u2019 possible exit to PSG also increases the urgency to sign a number nine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Flick made it clear he does want a striker to be signed but was also very calm in his answer, saying he has \u201ccomplete confidence\u201d in sporting director Deco to get a deal over the line.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">\u201cIt depends on the team. We have to wait. I have complete confidence in Deco and we know we have to do something. It also depends on [what happens with] Ferran. We\u2019ll see what we do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Bar\u00e7a currently have Lamine Yamal, Raphinha, Dani Olmo, Ferm\u00edn L\u00f3pez, Ferran and new signings Anthony Gordon and Karim Adeyemi as forward options along with academy prospects Ebrima Tunkara and Hamza Abdelkarim, but Flick clearly wants a true striker profile to replace Robert Lewandowski.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">There is still a month to go in the transfer window and Bar\u00e7a are still three weeks away from their official debut against Elche in La Liga, so time isn\u2019t exactly running out (yet) and a lot could still happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barcelona manager Hansi Flick spoke to the press after the squad\u2019s final session of their training camp in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":801290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[49043,403,99],"class_list":["post-801289","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\/801289","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=801289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/801290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}