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  • FILE: Real Madrid's head coach Zinedine Zidane. Picture: @realmadrid/Twitter

    Defiant Zidane urges Real Madrid to come out fighting against Barcelona

    Madrid and their coach head to Camp Nou under pressure after consecutive defeats to Cadiz in La Liga and Shakhtar Donetsk in the Champions League.

    658 days ago
  • Picture: @ChampionsLeague/Twitter.

    Messi v Ronaldo in Champions League group stage, Man Utd to face PSG

    The two heavyweights were drawn in Group G along with Dynamo Kiev of Ukraine and Ferencvaros, the Hungarian club returning to the group stage for the first time in quarter of a century.

    679 days ago
  • The 33-year-old Suarez moves to Atletico on a two-year contract on a free transfer, although, if he does well, Barcelona could receive some money. Picture: Instagram

    'Nothing surprises me anymore,' says Messi lamenting Suarez departure

    Messi tried to force his exit from Barcelona but finally accepted that he would have to see out the final year of his contract. Meanwhile, two of his closest friends on the team, Suarez and the Chilean Arturo Vidal have left.

    686 days ago
  • Former Barcelona forward Luis Suarez. Picture: AFP.

    Atletico Madrid announce signing of Luis Suarez from Barcelona

    Since joining Barca from Liverpool in 2014, Luis Suarez has won a host of trophies, including the 2015 Champions League and four Liga titles.

    687 days ago
  • Inter Milan president Steven Zhang and midfielder Arturo Vidal following the completion of his signing with the club on 22 September 2020. Picture: @Inter_en/Twitter

    Barcelona's Vidal joins Inter for €1 million

    After joining in 2018, Vidal played 96 games for the Catalans and scored 11 goals, helping them win La Liga in his first year in Spain.

    689 days ago
  • Barcelona's Argentinian forward Lionel Messi reacts after winning the Ballon d'Or France Football 2019 trophy at the Chatelet Theatre in Paris on December 2, 2019. Picture: AFP.

    Messi joins exclusive club of sporting billionaires

    Forbes said that in 2020 Messi was the best paid footballer in the world with an income of $126 million from his Barca salary ($92 million for the 2020/2021 season) and $34 million from sponsors and other sources.

    696 days ago
  • Barcelona's Lionel Messi. Picture: @FCBarcelona/Twitter

    La Liga would have survived without Messi, says Tebas

    La Liga had previously intervened in the dispute by announcing Lionel Messi's €700-million release clause still applied, a statement later rejected by Messi's agent and father Jorge.

    703 days ago
  • Barcelona forward Lionel Messi. Picture: AFP

    Messi confirms staying at Barcelona but rages at president

    But he launched a stinging attack on Barca president Josep Maria Bartomeu, whom he accused of going back on an agreement to let him leave for free at the end of last season.

    707 days ago
  • © ververidis/123rf.com

    Messi unlikely to change mind on Barca exit, says presidential candidate

    Messi rocked Barcelona last month when his lawyers told the club he wanted to activate a clause in his contract that would allow him to leave for free before the 2020-21 season.

    709 days ago
  • FILE: Real Madrid's Karim Benzema (centre) celebrates a goal with his teammates. Picture: @realmadriden/Twitter

    Champions Real Madrid kick off La Liga title defence at Real Sociedad

    Real play at Sociedad one week after the scheduled kick off of the new campaign because teams that participated in the last stages of the Champions League and Europa League have been given additional time off.

    710 days ago
  • Barcelona forward Lionel Messi reacts to a missed chance during the Uefa Champions League quarterfinal football match against Bayern Munich at the Luz stadium in Lisbon on 14 August 2020. Picture: AFP

    Messi contract is valid, says La Liga, after he fails to attend medical

    The six-times world player of the year insists he has a clause in his contract that allows him to leave on a free transfer — a claim disputed by Barcelona and now by La Liga.

    711 days ago
  • Barcelona's Lionel Messi. Picture: @FCBarcelona/Twitter

    Barcelona hold their breath as Messi weighs up pre-season return

    Barca's greatest ever player is due at the Ciutat Esportiva on Sunday morning for coronavirus tests, which must be taken and passed if he is to join Ronald Koeman's first pre-season session on Monday.

    712 days ago
  • Barcelona's Lionel Messi. Picture: @FCBarcelona/Twitter

    Messi to sign for Liverpool? No chance, says Klopp

    Lionel Messi stunned world soccer earlier this week when he expressed his desire to leave Barcelona after nearly two decades with the Catalan club.

    714 days ago
  • Barcelona's Lionel Messi. Picture: @FCBarcelona/Twitter

    Top European clubs circle as Messi calls time at Barcelona

    Signalling the end of an era at Barcelona, where Messi is the record scorer and has won four Champions League titles, the disgruntled Argentine wants to terminate his contract "unilaterally" by triggering a release clause, a source told AFP.

    716 days ago
  • Barcelona's Argentinean forward Lionel Messi. Picture: AFP.

    Lionel Messi wants to leave Barcelona, where is he going?

    According to an ESPN report, Man City coach Pep Guardiola and Messi spoke on the phone last week to discuss the possibility of him making a move there.

    716 days ago
  • Barcelona's Lionel Messi. Picture: @FCBarcelona/Twitter

    Messi tells Barca he wishes to leave - club source

    The club source said Messi, who has spent his entire career at Barca, informed the club about his desire to leave by sending a burofax, a service used in Spain to urgently dispatch a document that requires proof to third parties.

    717 days ago
  • Barcelona forward Lionel Messi reacts to a missed chance during the Uefa Champions League quarterfinal football match against Bayern Munich at the Luz stadium in Lisbon on 14 August 2020. Picture: AFP

    Messi contemplates Barca exit - reports

    Marca, Spain’s biggest selling daily, said the Argentine told Koeman that he was more likely to leave the club than to stay, while AS declared on its cover ‘Messi sees himself leaving’.

    721 days ago
  • In this file photo taken on 13 October 2019, Netherlands' coach Ronald Koeman looks on prior to the Euro 2020 football qualification match between Belarus and the Netherlands in Minsk. Koeman was appointed as the manager of FC Barcelona on 19 Auagust 2020. Picture: AFP

    Barcelona appoint Koeman as new coach - club statement

    Koeman, who has left his role as manager of the Netherlands, has signed a two-year-deal with Barcelona, who sacked Quique Setien on Monday after he presided over the club’s worst defeat ever in European competition.

    723 days ago
  • Barcelona coach Quique Setien arrives for a training session at the Luz stadium in Lisbon on 13 August 2020 on the eve of the UEFA Champions League quarterfinal football match between FC Barcelona and Bayern Munich. Picture: AFP

    Barcelona sack coach Setien following Bayern drubbing

    Quique Setien, 61, was appointed in January after the club sacked two-time league winner Ernesto Valverde despite his side sitting top of the La Liga standings on goal difference.

    725 days ago
  • Barcelona’s Catalan defender Gerard Pique. Picture: Facebook.

    Barcelona star Pique: 'We have hit rock bottom'

    Thomas Mueller and Philippe Coutinho both scored twice as the German double winners blew Barca away in a merciless display that will prompt serious questions over Lionel Messi's future in Spain.

    727 days ago
  • Barcelona's Argentine forward Lionel Messi looks on during the Spanish league football match between FC Barcelona and Granada FC at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona on 19 January 2020. Picture: AFP

    Messi's toughest task as Barcelona face up to Bayern Munich

    The only surviving former winners of European club football's greatest prize, with five titles each, meet in a heavyweight Champions League quarter-final behind closed doors at the Estadio da Luz.

    729 days ago
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