Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu has suggested that La Liga play host three games per season overseas. The prospect of staging games abroad has been contentious in Spain ever since La Liga signed a 15-year agreement with entertainment company Relevent Sports designed to promote the sport and La Liga in North America in August last […]
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It appears that Liverpool were so put off by Barcelona’s pursuit of Philippe Coutinho that the Premier League took preventative measures from the Spanish side raiding the club again. During the negotiations last January when Liverpool reluctantly sanctioned the sale of Coutinho to Barca for £142 million, Liverpool sporting director Michael Edwards insisted on a […]
Former Borussia Dortmund star Ousmane Dembele is turning into an nightmare signing for Barcelona, but the club might not be able to afford to sell the 21-year-old. According to German newspaper Die Welt, if Barcelona sell Dembele before his contract expires they will have to pay the full €147 million due on his contract. Barcelona […]
Manchester City and Paris St-Germain “are cheating and should be sanctioned”, according to La Liga following financial conduct allegations. German news magazine Der Spiegel says City and PSG overvalued sponsorship deals to help meet Uefa’s Financial Fair Play (FFP) rules. And it says that in 2014 the clubs negotiated with Fifa president Gianni Infantino, who […]
According to recently acquired emails from Football Leaks, 16 of Europe’s biggest clubs, including Juventus, Real Madrid, Barcelona, Manchester United and Bayern Munich have been negotiating to form a Super League. This idea had been floated in the open before, but according to the trans-national investigation resulting from hacked emails obtained by Der Spiegel, there […]
La Liga are launching a campaign hoping to show that American fans are behind its plan to host a regular-season game in the United States. The league and its US partners on Thursday began asking fans to sign an online petition to show their support for the planned Barcelona-Girona game near Miami in January. ‘In […]
Another interesting week in the Champions League where Juventus and Dortmund showed that they are a class above the rest and where European royalty like Real Madrid and Manchester United showed they are a long way from being contenders. Here is a recap of this weeks’s Champions League matchday 3 games: Group A Borussia Dortmund […]
Lionel Messi produced a Wembley masterpiece to condemn Tottenham to their second successive Champions League defeat as they were beaten by Barcelona at Wembley. Messi was the magnificent orchestrator behind a superb attacking display from the Catalans that eventually proved too much for spirited Spurs, who also lost their opening Group B game to Inter […]
Lionel Messi has admitted Barcelona have defensive problems just days before they face Tottenham at Wembley. ‘We know we have to be stronger defensively,’ he said after Barcelona failed to win for the third match running. ‘Last season we were difficult to score against and now teams score against us from the slightest chance. ‘We […]