{"id":22696,"date":"2026-05-13T14:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T14:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/22696\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T14:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T14:12:12","slug":"should-barcelona-send-toni-fernandez-and-xavi-espart-out-on-loan-next-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/22696\/","title":{"rendered":"Should Barcelona send Toni Fernandez and Xavi Espart out on loan next season?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Barcelona have reportedly offered Real Oviedo the chance to sign exciting youngsters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barcablaugranes.com\/barca-atletic\/119166\/hes-a-great-option-for-next-season-hansi-flick-has-good-news-for-barcelona-teen-xavi-espart\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Xavi Espart<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barcablaugranes.com\/barca-atletic\/119286\/toni-fernandez-stunner-not-enough-as-barcelona-atletic-miss-out-on-promotion-play-off-place\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toni Fernandez<\/a> on loan for next season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The two players are currently in and around the first team and have been tipped to make the breakthrough into the senior squad in the future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">According to Diario Sport, the Catalans are eager for both players to continue their development by going out on loan next season in order to play regular first-team minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Real Oviedo have been offered the chance to land the duo following their relegation from La Liga. The Asturian side look set to finish bottom as they are currently seven points adrift with just three games left.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Interestingly, the report adds that Barca are thinking about trying to include a clause to ensure both players must feature for at least \u201c66% of the minutes of the season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barcablaugranes.com\/barcelona-uefa-champions-league\/114978\/new-philipp-lahm-xavi-espart-has-a-blast-on-his-dream-debut-for-barcelona\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Espart<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barcablaugranes.com\/barcelona-la-liga\/104009\/toni-fernandez-speaks-out-after-making-la-liga-debut-for-barcelona-against-girona\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fernandez<\/a> have already debuted for Barca\u2019s first-team but there\u2019s no clear pathway into Flick\u2019s side at present due to the intense competition for places.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">So today\u2019s Barca Blaugranes Question of the Day is:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Should Barcelona send Toni Fernandez and Xavi Espart out on loan next season?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Now it\u2019s over to you! Feel free to share your thoughts, predictions, opinions and answers in the comments section below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barcelona have reportedly offered Real Oviedo the chance to sign exciting youngsters Xavi Espart and Toni Fernandez on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9269,92,948,1890,1596],"class_list":["post-22696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-barcelona","tag-barca-atletic","tag-barcelona","tag-barcelona-team-news","tag-barcelona-transfer-rumors-news","tag-cant-del-blog-barcelona-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}