{"id":122366,"date":"2025-08-06T01:35:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T01:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/122366\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T01:35:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T01:35:09","slug":"barcelona-close-their-squad-ahead-of-the-2025-26-season-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/122366\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona close their squad ahead of the 2025\/26 season &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With their Asia trip done and dusted, albeit at the cost of the entire team facing fatigue and jet lag, Barcelona are now bracing themselves for the new season.<\/p>\n<p>The club have performed brilliantly during pre-season so far and are confident of registering their new signings \u2013 Joan Garcia, Roony Bardghji and Marcus Rashford.<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona close their roster for the new season<\/p>\n<p>Keeping that in mind, Barcelona appear to have completed their squad building for the season ahead and are not expected to tinker too much with the squad.<\/p>\n<p>This is according to <a href=\"https:\/\/as.com\/futbol\/primera\/el-barcelona-cierra-su-plantilla-con-un-asterisco-n\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">AS<\/a>, which suggests that Barcelona have finalised the squad for the 2025\/26 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The club believe they have adequate depth in the team, with every position being covered by at least two players and in some instances, even three. <\/p>\n<p>So, even though there were some suggestions of another new addition, none will be made.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GP12122-1920x1080-1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Marc Casado\" class=\"wp-image-174769\"  \/>Marc Casado has been linked with a move away from Barcelona. (Picture courtesy: FC Barcelona Official Website)<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona, though, would ideally like to cut down on surpluses, which is why players such as Andreas Christensen and Marc Casado have been linked with a move away from the club.<\/p>\n<p>That said, the Catalans have not officially put anyone up for sale, though they are open to listening to offers if an attractive proposal comes along.<\/p>\n<p>The case of Casado is very interesting, as the young midfielder may no longer enjoy the same prominence in the Barcelona team last season.<\/p>\n<p>This is due to two key factors \u2013 the return of Marc Bernal, who is regarded as the more favourable option despite his lack of experience, and Gavi\u2019s return to form.<\/p>\n<p>Gavi has, in fact, been one of Barcelona\u2019s best players in pre-season and <a href=\"https:\/\/barcauniversal.com\/barcelona-midfield-sensation-at-risk-of-losing-his-starting-place-next-season-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">may even challenge Frenkie de Jong\u2019s role<\/a> as a first-team regular next season.<\/p>\n<p>Keeping that in mind, Casado\u2019s future may still be open. But other than that, Barcelona\u2019s squad for next season is closed, with no meaningful signings or departures expected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With their Asia trip done and dusted, albeit at the cost of the entire team facing fatigue and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":61253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[1386,4444,5727,42523,221,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-122366","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-marc-casado","12":"tag-soccer","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114979256612425914","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122366","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=122366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}