{"id":648478,"date":"2024-11-15T11:20:35","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T16:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=648478"},"modified":"2024-11-15T11:20:35","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T16:20:35","slug":"deco-denies-barca-goalkeeper-rumours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/11\/15\/deco-denies-barca-goalkeeper-rumours\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I&#8217;m Not Sure I&#8217;d Join Barca&#8217; &#8211; Deco Shuts Down FC Barcelona Goalkeeper Rumours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FC Barcelona\u2019s Sporting Director, Deco, has answered questions regarding a potential new goalkeeper signing. Read on to find out who Bar\u00e7a is rumoured to be linked with and what stance they are taking.<\/p>\n<h2>Deco Denies Ter Stegen Replacement Links &#8211; \u201cI Wish Him To Win Titles At Porto\u201d<\/h2>\n<h3>A Question Of Time<\/h3>\n<p>Sporting Director and former player of FC Barcelona, Deco<em>,<\/em> has told reporters that the club is not intent on signing a goalkeeper to replace Marc-Andr\u00e9 ter Stegen. In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/amp\/s\/www.mundodeportivo.com\/futbol\/fc-barcelona\/20241114\/1002352673\/barca-prioriza-ter-stegen-enfria-diogo-costa-jonathan-tah.html%3ffacet=amp\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">interview with Mundo Deportivo<\/a>, the Portuguese legend said, \u201cOur priority is ter Stegen, who&#8217;s going to be under contract for the next three years.<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona have been without their first-choice goalkeeper and club captain, Ter Stegen, since September 22 and will continue to be <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/09\/24\/replace-marc-andre-ter-stegen-barcelona\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">until the end of the season<\/a>. The German ruptured his patella tendon on his right knee in a La Liga match against Villarreal CF.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/11\/01\/la-masia-heroes-el-clasico\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Who Are FC Barcelona\u2019s Eight La Masia Heroes That Won El Cl\u00e1sico?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There had been rumours that Los Culers were looking to sign Diogo Costa of FC Porto, as mentioned by Mundo Deportivo. Deco said of his fellow compatriot, \u201cIf I were Diogo Costa, I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;d join Bar\u00e7a to be a backup.&#8221; He then went on to wish the Portugal international all the best at another of his former clubs, saying, \u201cI wish him to win titles at Porto.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Make Do With What They Have<\/h3>\n<p>Bar\u00e7a brought Wojciech Szczesny out of retirement, after learning that Ter Stegen wouldn&#8217;t return until after the season&#8217;s end. The former Juventus and Arsenal goalkeeper has yet to make an appearance while he rediscovers his form and fitness after a summer off.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More<\/strong>:<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/11\/14\/barcelona-pedri-contract-renewal-hint\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\"> \u2018It Will Happen\u2019: Barcelona Tease Contract Extension For \u00a3149K P\/W Midfield Star<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Product of La Masia, I\u00f1aki Pe\u00f1a has been given the responsibility to be the man in between the posts meanwhile, keeping four clean sheets in ten matches so far. One of those being at the Santiago Bernab\u00e9u, as his team won 4-0 in El Cl\u00e1sico against Real Madrid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FC Barcelona\u2019s Sporting Director, Deco, has answered questions regarding a potential new goalkeeper signing. Read on to find out who Bar\u00e7a is rumoured to be linked with and what stance they are taking. Deco Denies Ter Stegen Replacement Links &#8211; \u201cI Wish Him To Win Titles At Porto\u201d A Question Of Time Sporting Director and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5302,"featured_media":647679,"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],"tags":[9504,2977],"class_list":["post-648478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-la-liga","category-barcelona","tag-diogo-costa","tag-marc-andre-ter-stegen"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648478","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\/5302"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}