{"id":648196,"date":"2024-11-05T10:41:04","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T15:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=648196"},"modified":"2024-11-05T10:41:47","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T15:41:47","slug":"barcelona-marc-casado-future-stance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/11\/05\/barcelona-marc-casado-future-stance\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona Make Stance Clear On &#8216;Untouchable&#8217; Breakout Star After Links To Premier League Move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona are enjoying an incredible start to the 2024\/25 season as they sit comfortably on top of the La Liga table after 12 matches and also <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/11\/01\/la-masia-heroes-el-clasico\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">defeated Real Madrid by a 4-0 margin<\/a>. During this spell, they&#8217;ve witnessed young midfielder Marc Casado linked with a potential move away, forcing them to make their intentions clear on his future.<\/p>\n<h2>Barcelona Clear Up Marc Casado&#8217;s Status<\/h2>\n<h3>Are Barcelona Looking To Sell Casado?<\/h3>\n<p>The young Spanish midfielder has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fichajes.net\/noticias\/nueva-joya-fc-barcelona-seduce-premier-league-20241102.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recently been linked<\/a> to a potential surprise move to the Premier League, with multiple clubs rumoured to be interested in signing him. But <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1853768586289983712\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fabrizio Romano<\/a> has cleared up these rumours by reporting that the Blaugrana have played down and rubbished these links.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/10\/11\/new-sports-city-to-bring-la-liga-club-revenue-on-par-with-fc-barcelona\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">New Sports City To Bring La Liga Club Revenue \u201cOn Par With FC Barcelona\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He adds that the Spanish club considers Casado to be an &#8220;untouchable&#8221; member of the squad after his impressive rise under Hansi Flick&#8217;s system. The journalist also states that both the head coach as well as sporting director Deco see him as a key part of the current project.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s further claimed that Barcelona had also inserted an \u00a383 million release clause when Casado signed a new long-term contract with the club in June, 2024. Which will make it tough for any team to sign him anytime soon.<\/p>\n<h3>How Has Casado Performed So Far This Season?<\/h3>\n<p>The 21-year-old midfielder has become a pivotal part of Barcelona&#8217;s midfield shape under Flick and has started in eight of their 12 La Liga matches so far in this campaign. He has mostly played in the midfield pivot as a no.8, but can also play deeper in a defensive midfield position to help his side.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/10\/18\/la-liga-president-world-record-offer\/\" target=\"_self\">Barcelona Rejected World Record Offer For Lamine Yamal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Casado has provided three assists in 10 league games for his side, which included a great assist in the major win over Real Madrid at the Santiago Bernabeu. He was hailed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.in\/football\/story\/_\/id\/42030147\/marc-casado-barcelona-la-lasia-real-madrid-clasico\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">as &#8220;classy&#8221;<\/a> for his role in Barcelona&#8217;s thrashing of the reigning Champions League winners, proving to be the club&#8217;s breakout star of the season with his impressive passing ability and defensive qualities. He&#8217;s as good as a regular starter for the La Liga heavyweights and they have no plans to offload him anytime soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona are enjoying an incredible start to the 2024\/25 season as they sit comfortably on top of the La Liga table after 12 matches and also defeated Real Madrid by a 4-0 margin. During this spell, they&#8217;ve witnessed young midfielder Marc Casado linked with a potential move away, forcing them to make their intentions clear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4218,"featured_media":648214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1365,7188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-la-liga","category-barcelona","category-rumours"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}