{"id":65394,"date":"2026-08-21T03:22:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T03:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/65394"},"modified":"2026-08-21T03:23:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T03:23:00","slug":"barca-seal-cancelo-return-to-bolster-defence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/65394","title":{"rendered":"Barca seal Cancelo return to bolster defence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:16px;line-height:1.6\">\n<p><strong>Barcelona have signed defender Joao Cancelo on a free transfer, the Spanish champions said Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe full-back arrives as a free agent and signs on until June 30, 2029,\u201d said Barca in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Portugal international Cancelo terminated his contract with Saudi Arabian side Al Hilal in order to return to Camp Nou.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old has previously spent two loan spells with Barca, including in the second half of last season, helping Hansi Flick\u2019s side retain La Liga.<\/p>\n<p>Cancelo played in Portugal, Spain and Italy before joining Manchester City in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The defender was loaned to Bayern Munich and then Barcelona in the 2023\/24 campaign before joining Al Hilal in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Cancelo follows Rodri, Anthony Gordon and Karim Adeyemi to Barca this summer, with the Catalan giants still looking to sign a striker after the departures of Robert Lewandowski and Ferran Torres.<\/p>\n<p>Barca were hoping to sign Atletico Madrid\u2019s Julian Alvarez but have to look elsewhere with the Rojiblancos refusing to let the Argentina international move.<\/p>\n<p>Flick\u2019s team begin their La Liga campaign on Sunday at Elche.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/arynews.tv\/barca-seal-cancelo-return-to-bolster-defence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona have signed defender Joao Cancelo on a free transfer, the Spanish champions said Thursday. \u201cThe full-back arrives as a free agent and signs on until June 30, 2029,\u201d said Barca in a statement. Portugal international Cancelo terminated his contract with Saudi Arabian side Al Hilal in order to return to Camp Nou. The 32-year-old has previously spent two loan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65395,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":16,"label":"Pakistan"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-125-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"frkhokhar@gmail.com","author_link":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/author\/frkhokhargmail-com"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":16,"name":"Pakistan","slug":"pakistan","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":16,"taxonomy":"category","description":"All about Pakistan","parent":0,"count":3208,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":16,"category_count":3208,"category_description":"All about Pakistan","cat_name":"Pakistan","category_nicename":"pakistan","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65396,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65394\/revisions\/65396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}