The coach of Barça, Hansi Flick, has confirmed that the club will not sanction the departure of Eric Garcia before the transfer deadline.
Garcia, who returned to Barca from Manchester City in 2021, has been heavily linked with a to move in Girona after having enjoyed a good season 2023/24 on the road to Catalan fish.
Meanwhile, Barcelona have been looking for defensive reinforcements, with Bayer Leverkusen’s Jonathan Tah a prominent name on their shortlist in recent days.
But Flick has revealed that Garcia will stay for at least the first half of the 2024/25 season.
“Eric Garcia stays at Barça and the story is closed,” Flick said definitively in a press conference on Friday.
While reinforcements have been looked at at centre-back, Barcelona have looked towards a defensive midfielder in the final week of the window after the promising midfielder. Marc Bernal suffered an ACL injury. There are also concerns over Frenkie de Jong’s fitnesswhile Barça He failed in an attempt to take Stefan Bajcetic on loan from Liverpool.
Flick was asked how Barcelona he covered that gap and came up with the idea of using Garcia in midfield.
“We have two options, I leave you with these options: Marc Casado, and also Eric can play this position. He is more of a defender, but he also played here in the games when he came in, also in training and he did very well.”
Back to Barcelona The League action Saturday at Real Valladolid’s home.
