Leo Messi arrived last night in Barcelona after spending 20 days in Argentina recovering from the injury to his left leg. Messi’s recovery is going well, and when asked by reporters at the airport the Argentinian stated that “if it were up to me I’d play against Getafe“. This morning Messi will undergo a scan […]

Barça’s medical team have confirmed Leo Messi’s injury to his left thigh (torn biceps femoris muscle), and have estimated the period of recuperation as “about six weeks”. This means Messi will miss the Champions League quarter finals but should be ok to play in the semi finals if Barça get through.

All in all it’s been a pretty good month for Barça. Undeafeted in six games with four victories and two draws. The month would have been a lot worse if it hadn’t been for the four goals scored by this month’s winner, Xavi Hernández. Xavi got a late winner at home to Osasuna and followed […]

And he didn’t even flinch!

 
Great news as Leo Messi has been named in the list for tomorrow night’s game with Racing. The full list is: Valdés, Pinto, Zambrotta, Oleguer, Puyol, Milito, Thuram, Márquez, Sylvinho, Abidal, Deco, Xavi, Iniesta, Gudjohnsen, Giovani, Bojan, Henry, Messi.  I’ll write a full preview later today. I am in a horrible hurry at the moment.

Jose Manuel Pinto has been officially presented as a Barça player this evening (Friday) at Camp Nou. Pinto passed his medical this morning and signed this afternoon. Frank Rijkaard said that Pinto “is here to play and not just to train.” Pinto will train with the first team tomorrow and almost definitely be on the list […]

First team doctor Ricard Pruna has confirmed that Ronaldinho will not be fit in time to make the trip to Mallorca for Saturday’s game. The Brazilian who is suffering from an inflamed tendon in the left knee will continue his particular recuperation plan in the hope of being fit next week.

2007 was not a great year for Barça and we are all feeling pretty lousy since losing to Real Mierda last week. Nevertheless, life goes on and as we are reaching the end of the year I thought it would be appropriate to have an awards thing in order to look back at the best, and in some […]

Just a quick mention of this. As expected Leo Messi came second to Kaka in the Fifa World Player Award for 2007. Kaka received 1,047 votes, Messi 504 and Cristian Ronaldo was third with 426.

With just six days to go before Sunday’s Clasico, the big question on every Barça fan’s mind is who will fill in for Leo Messi. There is a small chance that Thierry Henry will be declared fit in time, but Barça are unlikely to take any risks with Henry as they want him at 100% […]