{"id":16446,"date":"2024-03-23T00:50:59","date_gmt":"2024-03-23T00:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=16446"},"modified":"2024-03-23T00:50:59","modified_gmt":"2024-03-23T00:50:59","slug":"atletico-moves-to-spoil-barcelonas-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/23\/atletico-moves-to-spoil-barcelonas-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Atletico moves to spoil Barcelona&#8217;s plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Atletico Madrid has expressed interest in signing 22-year-old Villarreal playmaker Alejandro Baena.<br \/>\nBaena is also considered one of Barcelona&#8217;s potential targets next summer, but Atletico&#8217;s entry into the mix may limit the Catalan club&#8217;s ability to keep up with the Rojiblancos financially. Atletico have added Baena to their shortlist of midfielders, which also includes Real Sociedad&#8217;s Mikel Merino, Valencia&#8217;s Javi Guerra and Girona&#8217;s Alex Garcia.<br \/>\nBut it remains to be seen whether Atletico Madrid is able to bear the costs of contracting with Baena, who has a release clause in his new contract, which extends until 2028, worth 60 million euros.<br \/>\nAtletico Madrid is seeking to reduce the team&#8217;s age, because many of the players in the current squad are over thirty years old.<br \/>\nBaena is considered one of Villarreal&#8217;s most important players this season, as he scored 5 goals and provided 13 assists in 47 matches in all competitions.<br \/>\nAlejandro Baena played 107 matches with Villarreal, and is currently on the Spanish national team roster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies Atletico Madrid has expressed interest in signing 22-year-old Villarreal playmaker Alejandro Baena. Baena is also considered one of Barcelona&#8217;s potential targets next summer, but Atletico&#8217;s entry into the mix may limit the Catalan club&#8217;s ability to keep up with the Rojiblancos financially. Atletico have added Baena to their shortlist of midfielders, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16448,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16446\/revisions\/16448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}