{"id":1006531,"date":"2026-06-05T07:17:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T07:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1006531\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T07:17:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T07:17:16","slug":"life-after-alexia-putellas-mapi-leon-ona-batlle-what-next-for-barcelona-and-how-will-transfers-in-catalunya-impact-spains-2027-womens-world-cup-title-defence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1006531\/","title":{"rendered":"Life after Alexia Putellas, Mapi Leon &#038; Ona Batlle: What next for Barcelona and how will transfers in Catalunya impact Spain&#8217;s 2027 Women&#8217;s World Cup title defence?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not only do Barca need to replace a world-class right-back, centre-back and midfielder, then. They also need new leaders to step up. Fortunately, there are plenty of contenders for that, in Patri Guijarro, Aitana Bonmati and Irene Paredes, for example.<\/p>\n<p>And at a club that has dealt with departures before &#8211; losing Mariona Caldentey, Lucy Bronze, Keira Walsh and Sandra Panos before and during the 2024-25 season &#8211; and one that answered doubters in emphatic fashion this year, few will expect them to suddenly drop off.<\/p>\n<p>This is still a world-class team, with an unrivalled youth set-up and tons of winning experience. It will be tricky and there might be some bumps in the road, but Barca will be just fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Not only do Barca need to replace a world-class right-back, centre-back and midfielder, then. They also need new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1006532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5312],"tags":[278898,199,2000,299,278901,278899,278900,104,56966,1514,30157,67996],"class_list":["post-1006531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-a-putellas","tag-barcelona","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-liga-f","tag-m-leon","tag-o-batlle","tag-spain","tag-womens-champions-league","tag-world-cup","tag-world-cup-qualification-uefa","tag-wsl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116696281775175342","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1006532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}