{"id":504228,"date":"2026-01-09T17:36:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T17:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/504228\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T17:36:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T17:36:19","slug":"another-great-signing-by-deco-joan-laporta-confirms-joao-cancelos-barcelona-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/504228\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Another great signing by Deco\u2019 &#8211; Joan Laporta confirms Joao Cancelo\u2019s Barcelona move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Barcelona president Joan Laporta has confirmed that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barcablaugranes.com\/fc-barcelona-transfer-rumors-news\/109548\/hell-by-flying-to-barcelona-soon-deco-offers-joao-cancelo-transfer-update\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joao Cancelo<\/a> is set to return to the club for a second stint.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Laporta is happy to have the Portugal international back and thinks it\u2019s more great work from Deco.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cCancelo is another great signing by Deco. It\u2019s not easy to make signings in this market,\u201d he told Jijantes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cDeco has done a great job. I want to thank the player and his agent for their efforts. Cancelo is a great and very versatile player, and Hansi Flick has given his blessing to this transfer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201dHe arrives tomorrow and will undergo a medical examination, and if all goes well he will be with us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Cancelo has been keen to return to Barcelona, despite interest from Inter, and will give Flick more options defensively for the second half of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barcelona president Joan Laporta has confirmed that Joao Cancelo is set to return to the club for a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":504229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[1396,87093,221,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-504228","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-transfer-rumors-news","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115866355775983568","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504228","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=504228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}