{"id":1576,"date":"2025-09-15T19:43:42","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T11:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/?p=1576"},"modified":"2025-09-15T19:43:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T11:43:42","slug":"we-need-to-be-a-bit-more-careful-deco-backs-flick-over-lamine-yamal-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/15\/we-need-to-be-a-bit-more-careful-deco-backs-flick-over-lamine-yamal-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We need to be a bit more careful&#8217; &#8211; Deco backs Flick over Lamine Yamal injury"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-21.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1577\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-21.png 1000w, https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-21-300x205.png 300w, https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-21-768x524.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Hansi Flick, who criticised the handling of Lamine Yamal&#8217;s fitness issues, has received the backing of Deco, Barcelona&#8217;s sporting director. The Portuguese official supports the German coach and urged Spain to be &#8220;a bit more careful&#8221; with the player.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deco, Barcelona&#8217;s sporting director, has thrown his weight behind Hansi Flick&#8217;s opinion regarding the management of Lamine Yamal&#8217;s fitness concerns by the Spanish national team, urging them to exercise &#8220;a bit more caution&#8221; with the young Barcelona forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We agree with what the manager said, because he is an important player for us and for the national team. We all need to be a bit more careful,&#8221; the Portuguese told the club&#8217;s media before Sunday&#8217;s match against Valencia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lamine Yamal was absent in the &#8216;Cules&#8217; curshing win over Valencia and doubtful for Thursday&#8217;s clash against Newcastle due to a groin issue that, according to the Barcelona coach, he was already suffering from during the two World Cup 2026 qualifying matches that Spain played against Bulgaria and Turkey on 4 and 7 September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this regard, Deco stated that he &#8220;agrees&#8221; with Flick, asserting that &#8220;we need to improve communication and protocols between clubs and national teams&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Players are subjected to too much strain, there are many things that need improving,&#8221; reflected the Barcelona sporting director.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hansi Flick, who criticised the handling of Lamine Yama [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1578,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576\/revisions\/1578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}