Hansi Flick backs Barcelona's 25-year-old prodigy keeper for the rest of the season
- After Ter Stegen's severe injury, FC Barcelona has been looking for options to cover the injury void.
- Hansi Flick backs Barcelona's 25-year-old prodigy keeper for the rest of the season.
FC Barcelona has been off to a spectacular start in the 2024/25 La Liga season. With 7 wins in 7 games, the Blaugrana club is on an incredible winning streak and has looked to be one of the best compared to recent years. Moreover, the most incredible part of Flick's Barca setup is that rather than looking at injury setbacks as problems, they have tackled them considering improvisations for the future.
Hansi Flick backs Barcelona's 25-year-old prodigy keeper for the rest of the season
This season so far, the Catalan club has had arguably the worst injury concerns for a side in European football, but still, they have been much better than others. Bringing like-to-like academy replacements for their injured stars, be it Marc Casado for Marc Bernal or Pablo Torre for Dani Olmo, Barcelona boss Flick has been uniting a team with special considerations for the future.
It appears that the German mastermind plans to repeat the same feat with prodigy keeper Inaki Pena. Even though the severe injury of the club's priority number 1, Ter Stegen, came as a rather difficult problem, the Blaugrana club's board has been tackling it in the most efficient way. Almost on the verge of bringing the 34-year-old veteran keeper Szczesny, Flick's main focus is on grooming and trusting Inaki Pena for the future.
As per reports from Diario SPORT, Hansi Flick's idea is to keep Iñaki Peña as the starting goalkeeper for the entire season. Having conveyed this idea to the goalkeeping staff, the manager wants to stick with the initial plan of bringing Szczesny as a second-choice keeper to their homegrown academy star, Pena.
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Barca's replacement signing of Wojciech Szczesny could turn out to be a masterstroke in the whole scenario. Bringing such a veteran on a 1-year deal to compete with Pena and Astralaga, the club could have an extremely brilliant keeping core formed for the future. Having already shown in the 1-and-a-half game what he is capable of, Flick trusting Inaki Pena could be the perfect solution for their future keeping options.
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