{"id":15577,"date":"2025-06-18T19:05:28","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T13:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=607881"},"modified":"2025-06-18T19:05:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T13:35:28","slug":"joan-garcia-sends-goodbye-message-to-espanyol-as-the-deal-with-barcelona-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/joan-garcia-sends-goodbye-message-to-espanyol-as-the-deal-with-barcelona-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Joan Garc\u00eda sends goodbye message to Espanyol as the deal with Barcelona announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joan Garc\u00eda has officially left Espanyol and the deal with Barcelona have been announced. The goalkeeper sends a goodbye message to Espanyol fans in a video posted by him on his official Instagram handle. Garcia will be a new keeper of Barcelona and Hansi Flick will be more than happy as he was his first choice keeper.<\/p>\n<p>Joan Garc\u00eda has officially completed his move from Espanyol to FC Barcelona, marking a significant step in the young goalkeeper\u2019s career. The deal was formally announced by both clubs earlier today, ending weeks of speculation surrounding the 23-year-old\u2019s future.<\/p>\n<p>Garc\u00eda, who rose through Espanyol\u2019s youth ranks, shared a heartfelt goodbye message to fans via a video on his official Instagram handle. In the emotional post, he thanked the club and supporters for their unwavering support, calling Espanyol his \u201chome\u201d and expressing gratitude for the memories and opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>His transfer to Barcelona comes as a major boost for new head coach Hansi Flick, who had reportedly identified Garc\u00eda as his first-choice target between the posts. The German manager is expected to give Garc\u00eda a key role in his project as he looks to rebuild Barcelona\u2019s squad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joan Garc\u00eda has officially left Espanyol and the deal with Barcelona have been announced. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":36730,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[661,2900,1823,3796,3997,2503,564,4010,3919,3991],"class_list":["post-15577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-barcelona","tag-espanyol","tag-fabrizio-romano","tag-football","tag-football-transfers-latest","tag-goalkeeper","tag-hansi-flick","tag-joan-garcia","tag-la-liga","tag-summer-transfer-window"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}