Barcelona is one step away from Inaki Pena to the Promotion Club

Gilabola.com – After struggling to complete the process of lending Inaki Pena, Barcelona is now only a step away from their reserve goalkeeper.

The 26 -year -old player was not included in Hansi Flick’s plan this season, where new goalkeeper Joan Garcia and Wojciech Szczesny were in a more favored position.

The initial plan, Barca wanted to release the pen for free-with the remaining contract of the player who was only one year left. However, Barcelona then changed their plans.

As reported previously, Pena will now renew his contract for three additional years, namely until 2029, before he was loaned for one season.

Inaki Pena moved to Elche

Journalist Matteo Moretto revealed, Pena will join the La Liga promotion club, Elche, in this 2025 2026 season.

This development is quite surprising, considering that there are other more prestigious clubs, who are interested in the pen. For example, Celta Vigo, who has been eyeing the pen for a long time, even though they must first give room for other new players.

Likewise with Girona, who was said to be interested in bringing the pen this summer. Then, the previous pen also had the opportunity to move to Italy, where Como – which was trained by Cesc Fabregas, was after him, and it was very possible.

However, in Como, Pena will not immediately become the number of first players at the club, and must be able to compete to get minutes to play.

Barcelona wants to complete the registration of the players

However, La Masia’s dropout wanted to join the team where he could play at the highest level every week. It might play a big role in the pen’s decision to finally join Elche.

Unfortunately, more details about the transfer of this pen still need to be awaited, but with the current development it seems that the pen will indeed play for the new arrivals of La Liga.

The departure of the pen was able to open a wider space for Barca in terms of Financial Fair Play (FFP), because the Blaugrana was continuing to struggle to complete the registration of their delayed players.

Inaki Pena was born in Alicante, Valencia community, Spain, in 1999. He began his career in the world of football in the Alicante young team in 2004, when he was five years old.

Then, when he was 13 years old – precisely in 2012, Pena joined Barcelona from Villarreal. At that time, Pena was in the team that won the UEFA Youth League in the 2017 2018 season, even a starter in the final against Chelsea.