Barça play the last league game of a disappointing season tomorrow night at Murcia (kick off 10pm). Frank Rijkaard has named just 17 players for his last game in charge including Fali and Rueda again from the B team. Iniesta has not recovered in time from his knee problems and Deco and Marquez both miss […]

Barça signed a deal today to play six matches in the next five years with teams in America’s Major League Soccer (MLS). Barça’s vicepresidents Ferran Soriano and Jaume Ferrer were in New York today to seal the deal with MLS commissioner Don Garber. The first games will be played this summer and an announcement will […]

Barça have confirmed they will play a friendly on May 26th against Saudi Arabian team Al-Ittihad. The game will take place at Al-Ittihad’s Abdullah al-Faisal stadium in Jeddah. Al-Ittihad were close to signing an unpopular ex-Barça player last summer but the deal fell through because the money-grabbing player in question wanted more money. The plans […]

I would never in a million years have thought that Samuel Eto’o could be booed by Camp Nou. Last summer I argued that I wouldn’t sell Eto’o for €100 million, basically because I believe there is no other forward in the world who could replace him. Eto’o is vital to Barça’s system, not just for […]

Frank Rijkaard has only sixteen first team players available for tomorrow evening’s match with Mallorca (kick off 9pm). This will be Rijkaard’s last home match in charge and he has brought in two players from the B team, Rafael Romero Serrano, known as “Fali”, and Jose Manuel Rueda to make up the numbers. Fali is […]

Toure Yaya returns to the squad sooner than expected in time for tomorrow night’s El Clasico in Madrid (kick off 10pm). With Madrid already champions the spotlight will be on the Barça players who have to applaud the Madrid team onto the pitch. I don’t really care about the supposed embarrassment of this, what is […]

As you know I was unable to see the game but from the kind contributions of readers and also looking at the press and seeing the highlights I have worked out some ratings for the game.
Barça: Valdés 6.5, Zambrotta 6, Thuram 6.5, Puyol 7, Abidal 7; Xavi 6.5, Marquez 6 (Edmilson m73, 6) Deco 7 (Gudjohnsen m78, […]

Barça need to pick themselves up after the disappointment of Tuesday night and go into the final four games of the season with the intention of finishing second in the table. A third place would mean having to play the Champions League qualifiers in August which would cause some changes in the pre-season plans. Tomorrow evening Barça […]

It may not have been a great night for Barça but Manchester United have problems too. Two goals from Michael Ballack gave Chelsea a 2-1 win over United to leave the premiership title race neck and neck with just two games to go. United lost Vidic after he received a knee in the face from […]

Frank Rijkaard has decided to rest Xavi, Messi and Eto’o for tomorrow night’s game at Deportivo and they have been left out of the squad along with Iniesta and Milito who are both suspended. This means a return to the squad for Oleguer, Ezquerro and Pedrito. Rijkaard is quite rightly giving preference to the Champions League […]