{"id":495934,"date":"2026-01-06T07:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T07:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/495934\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T07:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T07:01:09","slug":"barcelona-dressing-room-impressed-by-espanyol-star-carlos-romeros-performance-against-lamine-yamal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/495934\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona dressing room impressed by Espanyol star Carlos Romero\u2019s performance against Lamine Yamal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Espanyol have been enjoying a strong season and it seems that one of their players impressed the Barcelona dressing room during Saturday\u2019s Catalan derby.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">According to AS, the Barca players \u201cspoke with great admiration about Carlos Romero\u2019s performance\u201d after the game at the RCDE Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Romero came up against Lamine Yamal on Saturday night and did a good job against the teenager, ensuring he didn\u2019t have the impact he would have wanted against Espanyol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The stats show he didn\u2019t commit a single foul in the game, had the most touches of all Espanyol\u2019s players, won 50% of his duels and recovered five balls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Romero has been catching the eye fairly regularly for Espanyol this season, with AS suggesting he may now be a target for Barcelona, and scored a brilliant goal against Athletic Club in December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Romero is currently only on loan at Espanyol from Villarreal and has a contract with the Yellow Submarine that runs until 2029.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">His contract is believed to include a release clause set at around \u20ac45 million and he certainly looks like one to watch out for during the second half of the 2025-26 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Espanyol have been enjoying a strong season and it seems that one of their players impressed the Barcelona&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":495935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[1396,2618,87093,221,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-495934","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-barcelona-la-liga","9":"tag-barcelona-team-news","10":"tag-barcelona-transfer-rumors-news","11":"tag-soccer","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115846871959814352","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495934","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=495934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}