{"id":35960,"date":"2026-06-06T17:30:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T17:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/35960\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T17:30:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T17:30:28","slug":"exclusive-barcelona-midfielder-had-agreement-with-ligue-1-club-but-superagent-puts-move-on-hold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/35960\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: Barcelona midfielder had agreement with Ligue 1 club but superagent puts move on hold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Marc Casado has emerged as one of the leading candidates to leave FC Barcelona this summer, having fallen down the pecking order under Hansi Flick this past season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The La Masia graduate has reluctantly <a href=\"https:\/\/barcauniversal.com\/barcelona-homegrown-star-accepts-his-fate-and-ready-to-walk-away-this-summer-in-search-of-regular-football\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">accepted his fate and is ready to move on<\/a> in the upcoming transfer window. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In fact, it appeared <a href=\"https:\/\/barcauniversal.com\/exclusive-barcelona-midfielders-summer-move-to-monaco-95-done-transfer-expected-to-be-completed-this-week\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">like a transfer to AS Monaco in Ligue 1<\/a>, where he would reunite with Ansu Fati, was seemingly on the cards. <\/p>\n<p>Jorge Mendes has paused the operation<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, as exclusively revealed to Bar\u00e7a Universal by journalist Miquel Blazquez, Jorge Mendes, who represents Casado, has currently put the operation to take him to Monaco on hold.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/real-madrid-cf-v-fc-barcelona-laliga-ea-sports-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Marc Casado of FC Barcelona\" class=\"wp-image-197879\"  \/>Casado had an agreement with Monaco. (Photo by Angel Martinez\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The midfielder had reached an agreement with the Ligue 1 giants, and the Blaugrana too had an agreement in place with the French club for the transfer some days ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, Mendes pressed pause on the operation as the superagent is planning to offer the midfielder to Al Hilal as part of a potential deal involving Joao Cancelo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Saudi Arabian giants are holding out for a fee to let Cancelo join Barcelona permanently, while holding an interest in Casado.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And, Mendes is hoping to leverage that to engineer a move wherein the La Masia graduate signs for Al Hilal while Bar\u00e7a get Cancelo.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ca-osasuna-v-fc-barcelona-laliga-ea-sports-15-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Joao Cancelo of FC Barcelona\" class=\"wp-image-200238\"  \/>Barcelona want to sign Cancelo permanently. (Photo by Juan Manuel Serrano Arce\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>All possibilities remain<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite reports suggesting that <a href=\"https:\/\/barcauniversal.com\/as-monaco-pull-out-of-race-to-sign-barcelona-academy-graduate-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Monaco had decided to pull out of the transfer race<\/a> for Casado, our information is that the move is still not completely ruled out at this point.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The midfielder\u2019s priority remains to continue in Europe, but at the same time, the financial proposal from Saudi Arabia is tempting him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, there may be a possibility of Casado moving to Saudi Arabia now and returning to Europe at a later point in his career. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All possibilities remain open as the homegrown midfielder appears set to leave Barcelona before next season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marc Casado has emerged as one of the leading candidates to leave FC Barcelona this summer, having fallen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[182,2303,92,222,223,937,1866],"class_list":["post-35960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-barcelona","tag-al-hilal","tag-as-monaco","tag-barcelona","tag-barcelona-news","tag-fc-barcelona","tag-joao-cancelo","tag-marc-casado"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35960","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=35960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}