{"id":1165323,"date":"2026-08-23T19:40:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T19:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1165323\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T19:40:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T19:40:16","slug":"alejandro-balde-decides-to-leave-barcelona-as-man-utd-open-transfer-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1165323\/","title":{"rendered":"Alejandro Balde decides to LEAVE Barcelona as Man Utd open transfer talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:start\">Barcelona head coach Flick addressed the speculation surrounding Balde\u2019s future ahead of their opening fixture against Elche. While acknowledging the defender&#8217;s ability, Flick emphasised the need for total commitment. The German coach stated: &#8220;He\u2019s a player of immense quality, and it\u2019s important to know if he\u2019s confident he can compete in his position. That\u2019s what I want to see from all my players. Every day I observe what they do, their level, whether they demonstrate that they\u2019re at the level to play.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:start\">Flick continued to stress the importance of the collective over individual concerns during this period of transition. &#8220;Ultimately, we have to play as a team; only then will we achieve success. I need everyone to be one hundred percent,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barcelona head coach Flick addressed the speculation surrounding Balde\u2019s future ahead of their opening fixture against Elche. While&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1165324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[10],"tags":[316325,199,7325,98,101,79,2357,16,15],"class_list":["post-1165323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-a-balde","tag-barcelona","tag-laliga","tag-manchester-united","tag-premier-league","tag-sports","tag-transfers","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117146525772563063","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165323","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=1165323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1165324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1165323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1165323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1165323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}