{"id":15752,"date":"2025-07-22T19:03:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T13:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=619548"},"modified":"2025-07-22T19:03:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T13:33:51","slug":"no-proposal-for-denzel-dumfries-barca-focus-on-jules-koundes-new-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/no-proposal-for-denzel-dumfries-barca-focus-on-jules-koundes-new-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"No proposal for Denzel Dumfries; Barca focus on Jules Kound\u00e9\u2019s new deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona are focused on Jules Kound\u00e9\u2019s new deal and feel he along with Eric Garcia can be a great option at Right-back for next season. Barcelona have been offered Denzel Dumfries whose release clause of \u20ac25 million is valid until July 31. Barcelona aren\u2019t making any contacts with Inter Milan for the right-back as they have prioritised Kound\u00e9\u2019s new deal.<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona are currently focused on securing a new contract for Jules Kound\u00e9, viewing the French defender as a key part of their future plans. The club believes Kound\u00e9, alongside Eric Garcia, can form a reliable right-back pairing for the upcoming season, reducing the urgency to pursue reinforcements in that position.<\/p>\n<p>Despite being offered Inter Milan\u2019s Denzel Dumfries \u2014 who is available for \u20ac25 million until July 31 due to a release clause \u2014 the Catalan giants have shown no interest in opening talks. Instead, all efforts are being channelled towards finalising Kound\u00e9\u2019s extension, a move that underlines the club\u2019s trust in his versatility and long-term value.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Garcia, who spent last season on loan at Girona, has also impressed the coaching staff, further strengthening Barcelona\u2019s belief that internal solutions can address their defensive needs. While Dumfries remains on the market, Barcelona are not expected to shift focus from their current plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona are focused on Jules Kound\u00e9\u2019s new deal and feel he along with Eric Garcia can be a great option at Right-back for next season. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":36832,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[661,3686,1823,3796,564,422,3991],"class_list":["post-15752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-barcelona","tag-david-ornstein","tag-fabrizio-romano","tag-football","tag-hansi-flick","tag-inter-milan","tag-summer-transfer-window"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15752","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=15752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}