{"id":286381,"date":"2025-10-08T11:23:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T11:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/286381\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T11:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T11:23:09","slug":"barcelona-likely-to-explore-the-possibility-of-signing-a-versatile-full-back-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/286381\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona likely to explore the possibility of signing a versatile full-back in January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The disappointing defeat to Sevilla on Sunday evening in La Liga has sparked FC Barcelona manager Hansi Flick into action.<\/p>\n<p>The German tactician intends to make use of the ongoing two-week international break to assess and discuss several things with the various departments associated with the Catalans\u2019 first team, reports <a href=\"https:\/\/as.com\/futbol\/flick-mas-intervencionista-que-nunca-f202510-n\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">AS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A new full-back in January?<\/p>\n<p>As part of this, Flick will also meet <a href=\"https:\/\/barcauniversal.com\/barcelona-director-delivers-honest-assessment-after-consecutive-losses-were-not-as-magnificent-as-last-season\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Barcelona director Deco<\/a> and the rest of the sporting leadership to analyse the situation and discuss the next course of action.<\/p>\n<p>The idea of strengthening the squad in the short and medium term will be explored.<\/p>\n<p>In this regard, the possibility of strengthening the squad in the January transfer window with a versatile full-back is on the table, the report claims.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/fc-barcelona-v-rayo-vallecano-laliga-ea-sports-4-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Bojan and Deco, Barcelona executives\" class=\"wp-image-179832\"  \/>Flick will meet with Deco to assess the squad. (Photo by David Ramos\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>The belief is that neither Jules Kounde nor Alejandro Balde has a fully reliable substitute in the right-back and left-back positions, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Garcia has served as an effective option on the right side of the defence, but he has also been the team\u2019s most reliable centre-back this season, which is where Flick will need him.<\/p>\n<p>As for the left side, Gerard Martin did well in some matches during Balde\u2019s injury-enforced absence, but the significant difference in the level between the two was apparent.<\/p>\n<p>As such, Barcelona will likely explore the possibility of bringing in a versatile full-back, someone who can operate on both flanks like former star Joao Cancelo did, in the upcoming winter transfer window.<\/p>\n<p>It does not guarantee that a signing will be made, but Flick, Deco &amp; co. will discuss the matter and look for a possible solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The disappointing defeat to Sevilla on Sunday evening in La Liga has sparked FC Barcelona manager Hansi Flick&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":286382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[1386,4444,33612,5727,5729,221,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-286381","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-deco","11":"tag-fc-barcelona","12":"tag-hansi-flick","13":"tag-soccer","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115338294450502216","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286381","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=286381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}