9:23 AM ET Sam Marsden Moises Llorens Barcelona vice president Eduard Romeu has said Lionel Messi‘s return to the club as a player would be financially possible next summer. Messi, 35, is out of contract with Paris Saint-Germain at the end of the season and could potentially move back to Barca on a free transfer. […]
While he’s used to leaving defenders flailing haplessly in his wake, former Real Madrid and Barcelona star Luis Figo broke new ground recently when he took part in a football match played at world record-breaking altitude. 2 Related Indeed, on Aug. 20, 2022, the 49-year-old Portuguese legend took part in a four-a-side game, organised by […]
The “butterfly effect” which Barcelona president Joan Laporta imagined when he mortgaged chunks of the club’s future so he could immediately invest a couple of hundred million euros in transfer fees and wages, was that of an isolated, unattractive footballing larva transforming into a beautiful, colourful, much-admired creature. However, the impact which the brutal injuries […]
Barcelona defender Ronald Araujo will undergo surgery this week on his right thigh and is at risk of missing the World Cup, sources have told ESPN. The Uruguay international got hurt in the early minutes of his country’s 1-0 defeat to Iran in a friendly on Friday. – Stream on ESPN+: LaLiga, Bundesliga, MLS, more […]
David Silva has played for Real Sociedad in LaLiga since 2020. Juan Manuel Serrano Arce/Getty Images Former Spain and Manchester City midfielder David Silva has been found guilty of hurting a woman during a brawl, a Spanish court has ruled. According to court documents seen by the Associated Press on Thursday, the incident occurred on June […]
Robert Lewandowski is on a mission to win the Ballon d’Or, with the striker even going public with the admission that he swapped Bayern Munich for Barcelona over the summer in a bid to improve his chances of finally claiming the award. 2 Related Lewandowski spent eight highly successful years in Germany and was positioned […]
5:15 AM ET Sam Marsden Moises Llorens Frenkie de Jong has said he never wanted to leave Barcelona in the summer despite pressure from the club to accept offers from Manchester United and Chelsea. Barca were ready to let De Jong go to ease their financial problems and even agreed a fee with United in […]
2:56 PM ET Sam Marsden Moises Llorens Barcelona have threatened to take legal action against a Spanish newspaper that leaked details of the club’s contract negotiations with Lionel Messi in 2020. On Wednesday, El Mundo released a series of requests Messi made to the club to renew his deal at Camp Nou as he moved […]
6:23 AM ET Sam Marsden Moises Llorens Real Madrid‘s Marco Asensio turned down the chance to categorically rule out a move to Barcelona after being linked with a sensational move across the Clasico divide. Asensio, 26, is out of contract with Madrid at the end of the season. While he has not ruled out extending […]
12:55 PM ET Alex Kirkland Rodrigo Faez Atletico Madrid released a statement on Tuesday condemning the racist chanting aimed at Vinicius Junior before the Madrid derby, saying they will ban club members who are identified as having been involved. A group of Atletico fans were filmed singing “Vinicius, you’re a monkey” before Sunday’s derby at […]