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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.
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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.
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'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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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’.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
