{"id":409,"date":"2025-01-07T22:03:46","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T14:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/?p=409"},"modified":"2025-01-07T22:03:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T14:03:46","slug":"barcelona-keeping-an-eye-on-villarreal-star-with-a-view-to-summer-transfer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/07\/barcelona-keeping-an-eye-on-villarreal-star-with-a-view-to-summer-transfer\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona \u2018keeping an eye\u2019 on Villarreal star with a view to summer transfer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-15-1024x768.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-15-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-15-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-15-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-15.png 1240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The powers that be at Barcelona are continuing to keep a close eye on developments surrounding a leading member of the attacking ranks at La Liga rivals Villarreal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s according to Diario Sport, who point towards \u00c1lex Baena as the player in question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Baena, for his part, has long been making a name for himself as one of the standout talents in all of Spanish football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After dazzling on his way to five goals and a remarkable 18 assists across the length of the 2023\/24 campaign, the 23-year-old has since followed up with a further nine direct goal contributions in 17 appearances this season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And such ongoing excellence on Baena\u2019s part has understandably begun to pique attentions amongst La Liga\u2019s leading clubs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As per a report from Sport:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018Barcelona likes him a lot and only the bad economic situation stops a solid offer in the short term.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not only that, but Baena himself has made clear on more than one occasion in the past that he would be open to a potential Camp Nou switch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The powers that be at Barcelona are continuing to keep  [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409","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\/409","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=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":411,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions\/411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}