{"id":66314,"date":"2026-08-05T18:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T18:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/66314\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T18:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T18:05:09","slug":"barcelona-have-no-plans-to-loan-out-la-masia-talent-amid-la-liga-interest-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/66314\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona have no plans to loan out La Masia talent amid La Liga interest – report"},"content":{"rendered":"

Barcelona had a convoluted goalkeeping situation<\/a> to sort out at the beginning of the summer transfer window.<\/p>\n

The club had the likes of Joan Garcia, Wojciech Szczesny, Marc-Andre ter Stegen, Inaki Pena, Aron Yaakobishvili, Diego Kochen and Ander Astralaga in and around the first-team scheme of things.<\/p>\n

Among those seven, Garcia and Szczesny were locked in as number one and number two, leaving Deco to sort out the situation of the rest of those players.<\/p>\n

The sporting director has done a great job of handling the situation, securing exits for Ter Stegen, Pena, Kochen and Astralaga.<\/p>\n

Racing turn their attention to Yaakobishvili<\/p>\n

Now, according to AS<\/a>, Barcelona are not considering a loan move for highly rated goalkeeper Aron Yaakobishvili despite interest from Racing Santander.<\/p>\n

The Spanish club have identified the Hungarian as one of their preferred targets after abandoning their pursuit of Athletic Club goalkeeper Julen Agirrezabala.<\/p>\n

However, Barcelona are not prepared to sanction his departure.<\/p>\n

Racing had made the Basque club shot-stopper their first-choice signing this summer, but the operation collapsed due to Athletic Club\u2019s financial demands.<\/p>\n

The newly-promoted La Liga club identified Yaakobishvili as one of the alternatives, trying to sign him on loan.<\/p>\n

Barcelona counting on the youngster<\/p>\n

Yaakobishvili is currently part of Hansi Flick\u2019s pre-season squad and continues to train with the first team following Marc-Andre ter Stegen\u2019s departure to Ajax.<\/p>\n

The Hungarian goalkeeper is viewed as part of the club\u2019s long-term plans, making a loan move difficult at this stage of the window.<\/p>\n

Bar\u00e7a need a third-choice goalkeeper to be in the squad behind Garcia and Szczesny, and it looks like the 20-year-old is likely to get the nod<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"AronYaakobishvili (R) likely to become Barcelona\u2019s third-choice in goal. (Photo by Eric Alonso\/Getty Images for DFB)<\/p>\n

Would it be wiser to loan him out?<\/p>\n

As a third-choice goalkeeper, it is highly unlikely that Yaakobishvili will get any game time in the first team this upcoming season.<\/p>\n

The 20-year-old might benefit more from playing regularly for a club like Racing, who are now in the first division.<\/p>\n

Although the club\u2019s desire to keep him can be seen as a vote of confidence, the wiser choice might be to let him go elsewhere on loan and play regularly.<\/p>\n

Szczesny is in his final year, and he could hang up his boots at the end of the campaign. Having a Yaakobishvili with experience could save Barcelona from investing in the market.<\/p>\n

The Blaugrana need to make the best decision, not just for them but also for the 20-year-old Hungarian, and it remains to be seen how the club handle his situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barcelona had a convoluted goalkeeping situation to sort out at the beginning of the summer transfer window. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4831,92,222,223,15653],"class_list":["post-66314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-barcelona","tag-aron-yaakobishvili","tag-barcelona","tag-barcelona-news","tag-fc-barcelona","tag-racing-santander"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66314","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=66314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}