According to ESPN FC, sources close to Liverpool say that Barcelona’s claims they were quoted a price of €200 million for Philippe Coutinho are false. At a news conference on Saturday, a day after the Spanish transfer window closed, Barcelona sporting director Robert and director Albert Soler told reporters that Coutinho was too expensive and […]
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Barcelona claim that Liverpool were willing to sell Philippe Coutinho on the Spanish transfer deadline day. Speaking at a press conference on Saturday, Barcelona’s director of professional sports Albert Soler said the Merseyside club demanded €200 million (£185m) to make the deal happen. Soler said: ‘Yesterday, after weeks of offers and talks, Liverpool valued a […]
Ousmane Dembele has become the most expensive player in Barcelona’s history after signing a five-year deal with the Catalan club on Monday. Barca announced on Friday that they had reached an agreement with Borussia Dortmund to sign the France international for an initial fee worth €105 million. That could rise to €145m with add-ons, which […]
Barcelona have announced the signing of Ousmane Dembele from Borussia Dortmund. The Catalan club confirmed the news on their Twitter page, with a mocked-up image of Dembele in a Barca shirt, and in a statement on their website they called him ‘one of the best on the continent’. He arrives as a replacement up front […]
The cold war between the Barcelona board and the Barca dressing room intensified on Tuesday night when Lionel Messi published pictures of himself with Neymar on social media, just hours after the club confirmed they were suing the Brazilian forward. ‘He’s back’ read Messi’s message below a photograph taken at the birthday celebration of Neymar’s […]
Tick-tock, tick-tock… nowhere in football is the transfer market clock counting down louder than at Barcelona. And no one is sweating more than Barcelona president Josep Bartomeu and his board of directors. They have nine days to, in the words of one prominent Spanish radio journalist on Monday night, ‘stop making fools of themselves’, save […]
Barcelona are facing an injury crisis up front after Luis Suarez was ruled out for up to a month with the knee injury picked up in the 2-0 defeat by Real Madrid on Wednesday. Barca are still reeling from the shock departure of Neymar, who joined Paris Saint-Germain in a €222million deal earlier this month […]
Barcelona defender Gerard Pique confesses “in the nine years I’ve been here, it’s the first time I feel inferior to Real Madrid.” Barca were outclassed by Madrid in both legs of the Supercopa, resulting in a 5-1 aggregate victory for Los Blancos, and Pique lamented how “we’re not having our best time as a team […]
Gianluigi Buffon, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are the three nominees for the 2016/17 UEFA Men’s Player of the Year Award. The winner will be announced at the Champions League group stage draw in Monaco on Thursday 24 August. The shortlist of three players was selected by a jury comprising the 80 coaches of the […]