FC Barcelona have always had a knack for relying on their own youth products and academy graduates to provide quality depth and even at times become mainstays in the first team. While it is a sustainable measure in the long term, there are obvious hurdles within this concept as well.
Just like any other professional football player, the main goal of any aspiring individual is to feature for the very best team possible. Signing first-team contracts and getting to play top-division football is the dream scenario for most. While some achieve it, others are left in the shadows.
As has been most recently revealed by Albert Roge through Jijantes FC and also reported by SPORT, a similar fate befalls Barcelona keeper and La Masia graduate Arnau Tenas, who will consequently no longer be continuing with the Catalan club beyond the expiration of his current ongoing contract.
With his current contractual obligation to FC Barcelona set to expire within a mere few days on the 30th of June this year, the 22-year-old goalkeeper will be looking to establish his footballing career elsewhere.
Not exactly a surprising development it could be argued, as the player has been a part of the Barcelona system for almost 13 years now dating back to 2010, and has yet to make a single senior team appearance in official competitions.
Consistently brought up to train with the first team and more often than not also finds himself as an option on the bench, but the Spaniard remains unused as the third choice behind Marc Andre Ter Stegen and Inaki Pena who just recently made his La Liga debut against Real Valladolid.
His contributions to Barcelona Atletic remain prominent, but with his goal of being a first-team goalkeeper not likely to be fulfilled at Barcelona, he now will look to make his own way to a new destination where an entirely unknown challenge will potentially await him if the recent report is to be believed.
