{"id":29951,"date":"2024-11-04T23:33:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T22:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weisetech.dev\/fc-barcelona-noticias\/en\/the-big-challenge-facing-frenkie-jong-at-hansi-flick-barca_308398_102\/"},"modified":"2024-11-05T00:20:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T23:20:00","slug":"the-big-challenge-facing-frenkie-jong-at-hansi-flick-barca_308398_102","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fcbarcelonanoticias.com\/en\/fc-barcelona\/the-big-challenge-facing-frenkie-jong-at-hansi-flick-barca_308398_102.html","title":{"rendered":"The big challenge facing Frenkie de Jong at Hansi Flick’s Bar\u00e7a"},"content":{"rendered":"
Frenkie de Jong<\/strong> has a unique opportunity to redeem himself at FC Barcelona<\/strong>. Last season was a difficult one for the Dutchman, who missed several stretches of the season due to his ankle problems and found himself in the ‘eye of the storm’ due to the information that appeared in the press about his salary and his tense relationship with the Blaugrana club.<\/p> Now, under the orders of Hansi Flick<\/strong> in his new project on the Bar\u00e7a bench, the midfielder will seek to redeem himself in the eyes of the Barcelona fans. Since his arrival in Barcelona six seasons ago, the feeling with the footballer is that he has never reached the level he showed at Ajax <\/strong>and that led the Catalans to pay 80 million euros for his transfer.<\/p> The performance of the ’21’ at the club has been very irregular. As a pivot, as an interior or as a centre-back, the footballer has not finished standing out and year after year leaves more doubts than certainties. In fact, after Sergio Busquets<\/strong>‘ departure, everything pointed to Frenkie <\/strong>taking the reins of the midfield, but the Catalans opted to sign Oriol Romeu<\/strong> and when the Ulldecona native declined, Xavi <\/strong>preferred to bet on Christensen <\/strong>rather than play with De Jong<\/strong>.<\/p> Frenkie’s <\/strong>new chapter in the City had a ‘stormy’ start. The footballer could not be available to Flick <\/strong>from the start of his journey due to the ankle injury that kept him away from the dynamics of the group until just over two weeks ago. Once he recovered from this setback, the player played a few good minutes in the Cl\u00e1sico <\/strong>at the Bernab\u00e9u, but left much to be desired in the derby against Espanyol<\/strong>.<\/p> The Dutchman replaced Marc Casad\u00f3 <\/strong>and the team fell apart. A situation that puts his status as an undisputed starter in ‘check’, since the spectacular present of the youth squad player<\/a>, Pedri <\/strong>and Dani Olmo<\/strong> makes it difficult for the Bar\u00e7a coach to opt to take them out of the starting eleven to the detriment of a Frenkie <\/strong>who is forced to ‘press’ with a view to the next transfer markets.<\/p> A new beginning for Frenkie<\/h3>