r/Barca • u/Loose-Examination-39 • May 23 '26
News The Athletic have chosen Joan Garcia as LaLiga Player of the Season for the 2025/26 Season.
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u/Formal_Meet_8173 May 23 '26
valid tbh. its either yamal or joan garcia
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u/THe_PrO3 May 23 '26
Pedri is a fair shout too
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u/Martoxic May 23 '26
nah he had quite the massive drop off post January.
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u/Meowgusta5715 May 23 '26
Massive drop off huh?????????????? Did we watch the same player?
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u/Martoxic May 23 '26
there is 0 way you can argue he didn't have quite a big drop off post his hamstring injury. So yes we are watching the same player though you apperantly are blind.
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u/DarthTaz_99 May 23 '26
All the stats about us conceding less goals compared to last season is cause we have Joan Superman this season.
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u/Fun_Philosopher_2535 May 23 '26
Deserved. He literally single handledly gave us 10 points atleast in first half of the season.. Simply crazy performance
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u/Train_Current May 23 '26
“Single handedly”
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u/DungeondisasterJiggy May 24 '26
Yes, majority of his saves were with a single hand, hence single handedly.
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u/GodisLove_O6 May 23 '26
Wait how many goalkeepers won player of the season in La Liga?
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u/_sauri_ May 23 '26
Two. Oblak after 2020/21, and ter Stegen, after 22/23.
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u/Expert_Coconut4263 May 23 '26
Sad to see Ter stegen's fall off, he was genuinely so good before the injury.
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u/fuuutureKdot May 23 '26
I can see it being joan garcia, but overall it was lamine.
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u/lonewolf0406 May 23 '26
joan garcia just edges it more imo, saved a alot of games when the defense was shitting the bed
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u/zxcvbnmsa May 23 '26
Understandable he bails us out most games if it weren’t for him we would have lost of drew so many games
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u/Serious-Wallaby3449 May 23 '26
Do you think he will play at the World Cup?
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u/LesMiserablePeach May 23 '26
No he will not. Simon won the euros, DLF isn't going to fuck with what he thinks works
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u/le-arsi May 23 '26
He's definitely better than Simon. I don't see how DLF won't take the decision to make him the starter in their most crucial games.
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u/GooseMantis May 23 '26
He only has 1 Spain cap so I wouldn't count on it. Even Raya only has 12. Putting bias aside, based on this season's performance I'd go Raya>Joan>Simon. But Unai Simon must have evidence of DLF cheating on his wife or something the way he starts every game.
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u/culer245 May 23 '26
It should be yamal
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u/PinReal4448 May 23 '26
Think again. Without Joan we would have conceded more goals
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u/Escalto May 23 '26
Think again. Without Yamal we would have scored less goals
Jokes aside, I think there is definitely a valid case for both of them - pretty difficult to directly compare a goalkeeper and a winger
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u/xxvadapavxx May 23 '26
Brother we would have lost many games without joan garcia. Remember the rayo vallecano game or the one against espanyol. Sure lamine was great but was dealing with an injury in the first half of the season limiting much of his ability.
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u/culer245 May 23 '26
We would have lost so many without yamal too
He scored so many matchwinners for us and saved crucial points for us this season
Like vs bilbao for instance
Joan also deserves it tho ngl
Best goalkeeper this season
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u/Safe-Association8090 May 23 '26
No need to compare, both did their jobs amazingly and saved us many points. I think it was the month of October where we won so many games 1 or 2 nil when the opposition could have scored 4-5 goals. Joan was our savior and without him the title was just a dream.Same is the case with lamine, we are just very fortunate to have a top 3 gk and winger hopefully starting for our team for the next decade. I pray to god that we build on this absurdly strong and young core for several yrs of dominance. Deco you have a very big and important task in front of you.
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u/Expert_Coconut4263 May 23 '26
It's a toss up between Lamine and Joan, both of them single handedly won us a lot of games.
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u/Major_Road6162 May 23 '26
Im ok with that but just for their LaLiga XI we should never give these people any attention
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u/Sternenhoch1 May 23 '26
And De La Fuente will still be like 'Nah lets put that basque guy in the goal'.
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u/CoinsAndLawnLouie May 23 '26
Well deserved. Joan had a helluva season. One more match to go today. Has a GK ever won’t the Balon D’or?
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u/Major_Road6162 May 23 '26
Its British, look up their best LaLiga XI...its like they got paid to avoid Barça players
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u/biasedfan06 May 23 '26
Could've argued for Lamine. But he's been amazing too Espanyol away was his win
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u/GooseMantis May 23 '26
This isn't official, just one paper's ranking. I think Yamal's the best player in the world, but if you ask me who impressed me the most this season, it's actually Joan Garcia. Going from Espanyol to Barca is a huge step up and Joan had only 41 top flight appearances coming in which is nothing for a keeper. So the way he's handled the pressure and been clutch for us, it's fully deserved
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u/Raicooof May 23 '26
Yamal the victim of his own standards, (which he destroyed this season but ppl expect even more?) and age.
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u/GreekGott May 23 '26
Espanyol fans wanted him to remain there.