Barcelona will have to wait a little longer to get their hands on La Liga’s title after a last-minute strike from Ander Herrera saw them held to a 2-2 draw by Athletic Bilbao. The visitors were out of sorts for an hour at San Mames and deservedly trailed to Markel Susaeta’s first-half goal, but the […]
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They are not calling it the end of an era, but Barcelona vice-president Josep Maria Bartomeu says that the team will be “shaken up” over the summer. While Bartomeu did not talk about potential exits, but suggested that an overhaul of the squad was planned. “We will make four or five signings,” he said. “We […]
They could win the Champions League and La Liga this season, but that will not change the plans to rebuild Barcelona’s plans this season. As the season has progressed, the weaknesses in the Barcelona squad have become exposed. No depth at center half, an overreliance on “Messidependence” and an wantaway goalkeeper are all areas that […]
Eufemiano Fuentes, the controversial Spanish doctor at the center of the Operacion Puerto trial for alleged doping-related offences in cycling has told Marca that he refuses to reveal details of football clubs he has worked with, saying that threats have been made against him and his family in the past. Fuentes, told Marca that he […]
Blaise Matuidi’s equaliser with virtually the last kick of the game clinched a draw for Paris Saint-Germain in a pulsating Champions League quarter-final first leg against Barcelona. PSG will head to the Camp Nou with optimism next week partly because of the injuries that have hit Barcelona. Defenders Puyol, Adriano and Mascherano will all miss […]
Barcelona coach Tito Vilanova will return to Spain this week after two months of cancer treatment in New York, the La Liga club said today. “Tito Vilanova will this week leave the city of skyscrapers to return to the Catalan capital,” Barca said in a statement on their website. The club did not say whether […]
Spain has been the epicenter of the blood doping scandal that has engulfed cycling for years. Over the last 10 years, Spanish doctors have been linked with some of the biggest doping scandals in that sport. One of the doctors behind the Tyler Hamilton doping is called Eufemiano Fuentes, and he has been at the […]
Bayern Munich moved closer than ever to reclaiming the Bundesliga crown after moving 20 points clear on a weekend where the Serie A, La Liga and Ligue 1 leaders all won. Germany It was business as usual for Bayern as their seemingly inevitable march to the title continued. Bayern, who play Arsenal in the Champions […]
Lionel Messi became the only player in football history to have scored in 17 consecutive league games, bettering the previous mark of 16, set by Teodor Peterek. Peterek had scored 22 goals in 16 consecutive league matches in the Polish First Division way back in 1937-38. The goal, Barca’s second in the 2-0 win over […]