{"id":574,"date":"2026-04-10T23:14:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T23:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/574\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T23:14:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T23:14:17","slug":"barcelona-concerned-about-one-players-performance-this-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/574\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona \u2018concerned\u2019 about one player\u2019s performance this season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those behind the scenes at La Liga giants Barcelona have been left increasingly concerned by the level of performance produced by Jules Kound\u00e9 across the season to date.<\/p>\n<p>This come amid an ongoing dip in form on the part of the France international.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Kound\u00e9 was of course widely considered one of Barcelona\u2019s star performers across the length of the 2024\/25 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>From his berth at right-back, the former Sevilla man excelled on both sides of the ball, establishing himself as one of the standout players in world football in his role.<\/p>\n<p>Kound\u00e9, however, has since struggled to replicate such form this time round.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old has been singled out for regular criticism on the part of the Barcelona faithful, in particular for his efforts at the back.<\/p>\n<p>This comes chiefly owing to lapses in concentration, culminating in several high-profile goalscoring opportunities surrendered.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>And if the latest word stemming from the Spanish media is anything to go by, then Kound\u00e9\u2019s woes have evidently not gone overlooked on the part of the Camp Nou brass.<\/p>\n<p>As per a report from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mundodeportivo.com\/futbol\/fc-barcelona\/20260410\/1004168190\/conclusiones-peso-barca-derrota-dura.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Mundo Deportivo;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Mundo Deportivo&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Mundo Deportivo<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>\u2018There\u2019s concern at Bar\u00e7a about Kound\u00e9\u2019s role\u00a0this season,\u2019 with the defender viewed as \u2018softer and more erratic\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Conor Laird \u2013 GSFN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Those behind the scenes at La Liga giants Barcelona have been left increasingly concerned by the level of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[549,92,548],"class_list":{"0":"post-574","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-barcelona","8":"tag-barca","9":"tag-barcelona","10":"tag-jules-kounde"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574","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=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}