Alejandro Balde Barcelona questions were supposed to be settled the moment the transfer window shut. The left-back turned down the chance to move in August, stayed at the Spotify Camp Nou to fight for his shirt — and five matches into 2026/27 he has not played a single minute of it. That is the uncomfortable […]
Barcelona have not had a settled, successful era of management for the best part of a decade, and they are in no hurry to disturb the one they have now. Even so, a report on Thursday suggests the club have already sketched out who might follow Hansi Flick — and the name at the top […]
Barcelona have scored so freely this season that individual milestones have started to slip past unnoticed, but the Lamine Yamal free-kick that made it 4-0 against Feyenoord on Wednesday night deserves its own asterisk. It was the 19-year-old’s first direct free-kick goal for the club — at the eighth attempt — and it arrived minutes […]
Bernardo Silva to Barcelona was one of the summer’s most persistent rumours, and it turns out it was closer to reality than the club ever let on. The Portuguese wanted the move. Barcelona said no. And on Thursday, sporting director Deco finally explained why the Blaugrana waved through a free-agent midfielder of that calibre and […]
Deco on Barcelona’s exits was always going to be the awkward part of the sporting director’s post-window debrief. Five wins from five and 22 goals have made the arrivals look inspired — but a long list of familiar names left the Spotify Camp Nou this summer, three of them dressing-room favourites, and on Thursday Deco […]
Raphinha contract renewal talks are firmly on Barcelona’s to-do list. Sporting director Deco confirmed on Thursday that the Blaugrana intend to open discussions with their captain over fresh terms, hours after the Brazilian’s latest two-goal night lifted him into the club’s Champions League record books. Speaking to Catalan radio station RAC1, in an interview relayed […]
Deco on Julian Alvarez is the interview Barcelona supporters have been waiting for since the summer window closed without the striker the club had spent three months chasing. On Wednesday, the sporting director finally gave his version of events — the offer, the silence from Atletico Madrid, the accusations of tapping up, and whether the […]
Barcelona 22 goals in five official matches is not a hot start. It is a historical anomaly. Hansi Flick’s side reached that number on Wednesday night with the 5-1 dismantling of Feyenoord at the Spotify Camp Nou, and in doing so matched a scoring rate the club has not produced since 1950. The stat comes […]
Giovanni van Bronckhorst spent four years of his playing career at Barcelona and left with a Champions League medal. On Wednesday night he came back to the Spotify Camp Nou as an opposing manager, watched his Feyenoord side taken apart 5-1, and then delivered the most generous assessment of Lamine Yamal any rival coach has […]
Rodri has spent a month being talked about rather than watched. On Wednesday night he played most of a Champions League opener that Barcelona won 5-1, and afterwards he was finally asked the question that has followed his €60m arrival from Manchester City around: can he and Pedri really play in the same midfield? His […]
Gabriel Jesus had been on the pitch for barely a minute when he scored his first Barcelona goal. It arrived with his first shot for the club at the Spotify Camp Nou — a glanced header from a Lamine Yamal cross that completed the 5-1 win over Feyenoord on Wednesday night and gave a home […]
There was a moment on Wednesday night at the Spotify Camp Nou that explained the Raphinha Lamine Yamal relationship better than any statistic could. Barcelona were three goals clear of Feyenoord, the teenager had just bent in a free-kick on the night he wore the armband for the first time, and he ignored the celebrating […]
