{"id":101057,"date":"2025-07-29T03:37:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T03:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/101057\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T03:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T03:37:08","slug":"mallorca-pushing-to-beat-girona-to-barcelona-attacking-prodigys-signing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/101057\/","title":{"rendered":"Mallorca pushing to beat Girona to Barcelona attacking prodigy&#8217;s signing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jan Virgili was very much in contention to be on FC Barcelona\u2019s pre-season tour of Asia, having been training with the first-team squad over the past couple of weeks.<\/p>\n<p>However, the 19-year-old was ultimately left behind by manager Hansi Flick following the arrivals of attackers like Marcus Rashford and Roony Bardghji.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, rumours of a possible departure for Virgili have been doing the rounds, with Mallorca one of the clubs interested.<\/p>\n<p>Mallorca want to push as Girona show interest<\/p>\n<p>However, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/as.com\/futbol\/proximo-objetivo-jan-virgili-n\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">AS<\/a>, Barcelona\u2019s Catalan rivals, Girona, have also shown an interest in signing Jan Virgili.<\/p>\n<p>As such, Mallorca want to push for the 19-year-old winger\u2019s signing and beat their La Liga rivals in the transfer race.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/aston-villa-v-fc-barcelona-uefa-youth-league-3-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-173938\"  \/>What next for Jan Virgili? (Photo by Dan Mullan\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>Mallorca manager Jagoba Arrasate\u2019s main concern is the lack of depth in wide attacking positions. And, Virgili has emerged as their first target to reinforce the department.<\/p>\n<p>With no room in the first team following the arrivals of Rashford and Bardghji, and Bar\u00e7a Atletic currently competing in the RFEF Segunda Division, there is a real risk that his development could stagnate at the reserve level.<\/p>\n<p>As such, a move to Mallorca would be viewed positively by all parties, though Girona have also expressed interest.<\/p>\n<p>Mallorca, though, are also looking at Gabri Martinez, a 22-year-old left winger currently playing for Braga, as an alternative.<\/p>\n<p>It remains to be seen if Virgili leaves Barcelona this summer or not. In case of a permanent transfer, the La Liga champions are <a href=\"https:\/\/barcauniversal.com\/barcelona-open-to-selling-to-youth-prodigy-but-with-strings-attached\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">likely to insist<\/a> on the presence of a future sell-on clause and buyback options.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan Virgili was very much in contention to be on FC Barcelona\u2019s pre-season tour of Asia, having been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":101058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[1386,4444,5727,26825,33510,33248,221,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-101057","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-barcelona","9":"tag-barcelona-news","10":"tag-fc-barcelona","11":"tag-girona","12":"tag-jan-virgili","13":"tag-mallorca","14":"tag-soccer","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114934437936260893","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}