{"id":68355,"date":"2026-08-09T18:43:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T18:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/68355\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T18:43:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T18:43:23","slug":"after-the-real-madrid-duo-arbeloa-sets-his-sights-on-a-barcelona-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/68355\/","title":{"rendered":"After the Real Madrid duo: Arbeloa sets his sights on a Barcelona player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The list of clubs wishing to secure the services of Hector Fort, whether on loan or on a permanent deal, continues to expand on an almost daily basis during the final stage of the transfer window.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Barring a surprise from German coach Hansi Flick, Fort is one of the candidates to leave the Catalan side in search of playing minutes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Last season the full-back spent on loan at Elche, where he recovered from a serious injury and produced a strong end to the campaign.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sport.es\/es\/noticias\/barca\/arbeloa-quiere-hector-fort-133217983\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sport newspaper<\/a> reported that Everton have not given up their interest in signing Fort. The surprise, though, came from a name familiar to La Liga: Alvaro Arbeloa, the Fulham coach.<\/p>\n<p>Arbeloa is continuing an extensive rebuild of the Fulham squad, leaning heavily on young talents from the Spanish league.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Just a few days ago, the English club announced the signing of Real Madrid duo Gonzalo Garcia and Cesar Palacios.<\/p>\n<p>Now the former Real Madrid coach does not want to miss out on the chance to sign one of Barcelona&#8217;s academy talents either.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Chasing a right-back, Arbeloa has asked the club&#8217;s management to enquire about the financial terms of the Fort deal, in order to assess the possibility of the player moving to the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>All of which points Fort towards a permanent departure, for a fee close to 10 million euros.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The list of clubs wishing to secure the services of Hector Fort, whether on loan or on a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[701,92,7236,26924,85,83,265],"class_list":["post-68355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-barcelona","tag-a-arbeloa","tag-barcelona","tag-fulham","tag-h-fort","tag-laliga","tag-real-madrid","tag-transfers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68355","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=68355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}