Jo\u00e3o Cancelo has added a singular chapter to a well-travelled career after Barcelona secured back-to-back La Liga titles in 2025\/26. The full back, whose technical ability allows him to operate on both flanks, has primarily been deployed on the left and played a decisive role as Bar\u00e7a wrapped up the title with a 2\u20130 El Cl\u00e1sico win over Real Madrid.<\/p>\n
On Sunday night Cancelo made his 13th La Liga appearance of the season and his ninth start as Barcelona clinched the championship. That appearance completed a run of domestic winners\u2019 medals across Europe\u2019s principal competitions: the Primeira Liga at Benfica, Serie A with Juventus in 2018\u201319, three Premier League titles with Man City in 2020\u201321, 2021\u201322 and 2022\u201323, a Bundesliga medal during a loan at Bayern Munich in 2023 and now La Liga with Barcelona in 2025\u201326. No player before him has won all four of Europe\u2019s major leagues; the only comparable record has been achieved by Carlo Ancelotti as a manager.<\/p>\n
Cancelo\u2019s path has mixed permanent transfers with a series of high-profile loans. He spent 2007\u201314 at Benfica before moving to Valencia (2014\u201317), a loan to Inter in 2017\u201318 and Juventus in 2018\u201319, then a memorable spell at Manchester City from 2019\u201323. He was out on loan for the second half of 2022\u201323 and that move opened the door for his Bayern winners\u2019 medal. He is now nearing the end of his second temporary stay at Barcelona, having also been on loan there in 2023\u201324. Barcelona failed to retain the La Liga title that season and subsequently parted ways with manager Xavi Hern\u00e1ndez. Then came Hansi Flick.<\/p>\n
Reports in AS say Cancelo wants to remain in Catalonia, but Barcelona remain hamstrung by financial constraints and will prioritise other positions this summer. Hansi Flick has made clear he would welcome a compromise with Al Hilal to secure a permanent transfer, reflecting the impact Cancelo has had since arriving in the winter window.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jo\u00e3o Cancelo completed a unique sweep of Europe’s top four leagues after Barcelona clinched La Liga.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13752,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1017,646],"tags":[1668],"class_list":["post-13753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-barcelona","category-trophy","tag-joao-cancelo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}