 On 31 January 2012 he signed a contract extension with the "Blaugrana", keeping him at the club until June 2015, and also switched permanently to the first team, being assigned jersey number 23.Cuenca spent the first half of the 2012–13 season nursing a knee injury.On 31 January 2013, he was loaned to Eredivisie side AFC Ajax until the end of the campaign.