football question! i know girona is a catalan club, but are they also "in-touch" with their catalan identity like barça is? from what i saw on their social media, they post a lot in catalan instead of spanish. like for example from what i understand espanyol despite also being catalan is more on the spanish side
Girona is very much "in touch", even more than Barça —even considering the super important role of Catalan identity in Barça and viceversa. As you said with social media (Barça does a lot of stuff in English and Spanish because they want to appeal to international fans, Girona sees their fans as people from Girona and Catalonia). Many Barça players also don't ever learn Catalan (like Messi, the dude spent most of his life here). Girona is very loved in Catalonia by fans of all clubs (by which I mean mostly Barça and other local clubs, probably not Espanyol or Real Madrid lol), and this is one of the reasons. For example, the Girona coach, who is from Madrid, has learned to speak Catalan and uses it to answer journalists' questions. He has been very criticised for learning Catalan in Spain, but is extremely loved for it in Catalonia. He has had to defend himself for learning Catalan, and has always been very respectful in doing so.
Espanyol as you say has always been the Spanish team. Ever since the Franco dictatorship, Barça and Espanyol were understood to be the teams of Catalanists and of Spanish nationalists, respectively (as we mentioned in this post quoting a Francoist official).
Soooo, today there has been a rumor that Barça want to sign Yangel Herrera from Girona for next season, but let me repeat, it's only a RUMOR, it's nothing official, and neither Fabrizio Romano has said anything
But let me say this, if they do indeed want to sign him, remember that the last time a Venezuelan player played for Barcelona, we won the Champions League🤫🤫🤫