{"id":749,"date":"2025-03-04T21:58:15","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T13:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/?p=749"},"modified":"2025-03-04T21:58:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T13:58:15","slug":"szczesny-hints-at-barcelona-stay-as-he-is-open-to-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/04\/szczesny-hints-at-barcelona-stay-as-he-is-open-to-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"Szczesny hints at Barcelona stay as he is &#8216;open to everything&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-1.png 1000w, https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-1-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-1-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Barcelona goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny has expressed his openness to extending his stay at the Catalan club, citing his family&#8217;s happiness and his own enjoyment of his time at the Camp Nou.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wojciech Szczesny&#8217;s future at Barcelona has taken an unexpected turn as the former Juventus goalkeeper is now considering extending his stay beyond the initial year of his contract.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;If you asked me at the start of the season, I&#8217;d say I&#8217;ll be leaving Barca in June. But I love the time I&#8217;ve spent here,&#8221; Szczesny claimed in a recent interview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 35-year-old Polish goalkeeper, who came out of retirement to join Barcelona following Marc-Andre ter Stegen&#8217;s injury, has impressed since taking over as the club&#8217;s first-choice keeper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Szczesny&#8217;s good performances have not gone unnoticed, and Barca sporting director Deco recently hinted at the possibility of offering him a contract extension.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Polish international&#8217;s integration into Barcelona life extends beyond the pitch, as he explained, &#8220;My family is happy, my son loves his school, my wife loves being here\u2026 I&#8217;m open to everything&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Szczesny&#8217;s potential stay could have implications for the futures of Inaki Pena and the injured Ter Stegen, with the club reportedly waiting on Szczesny&#8217;s decision before making any moves in the goalkeeper market.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny has expressed hi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-749","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\/749","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=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":751,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions\/751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}