Barcelona ask Eric Garcia to stay at the club depsite lack of playing time

Eric Garcia is set to stay at Barcelona. At least, that is the intention of the club, who have changed the idea of a possible exit of the centre-back this winter to keeping him after his goal against Benfica.

Both ‘Marca’ and ‘SER’ assure that it has been Hansi Flick's decision to keep the defender, who so far is not having too much prominence in the squad.

The German coach does not want to lose a player who can play both in the centre of defence, his natural position, and in midfield, when he has played as a holding midfielder.

On top of that, Christensen is still out with his injury and Inigo Martinez is injured for the next three weeks, which affects the rotation of central defenders.

This is bad news for the two clubs that had been interested in the centre-back. Both Girona, where he spent last season on loan, and Cesc Fabregas' Como.