Hansi Flick tips Barcelona youngster for increased role next season
Hansi Flick tips Barcelona youngster for increased role next season Barcelona head coach Hansi Flick has late this week tipped an up-and-coming member of the club’s defensive ranks for an increasingly prominent role in his squad. The player in question? Xavi Espart.
Youngster Espart has for his part broken into the first-team picture in Catalunya’s capital over recent months. Owing to the personnel problems in Barcelona’s backline, the 18-year-old was called up to senior training, before being afforded a quartet of appearances by the aforementioned Hansi Flick. This included a start in a La Liga meeting with Sevilla, during which Espart shone bright from his berth at right-back.
So impressive did he look, that calls quickly mounted amongst the Barca fanbase for the young Spaniard to be cast into a leading role moving forward. And if the latest comments on the part of the Blaugrana’s headmaster are anything to go by, then precisely as much could be awaiting Espart in the 2026/27 campaign. Speaking during an appearance in front of the media on Friday, Hansi Flick explained: “Xavi Espart?
He is also delivering a good performance. I greatly appreciate what I see from him, and this is our way, how we want to handle him as well. For me, in the next season, he will be a very good option for this position, and of course, he is also an option for the upcoming matches.
” Conor Laird – GSFN