According to reports in this morning’s papers Jose Edmilson is looking at a possible move to Villarreal. El Sport states that the player underwent a medical at Villarreal on Monday. The player finishes his contract at Barça on June 30 and is therefore free to negotiate with other clubs. Edmilson will be 32 on July […]

After undergoing a scan this morning it was confirmed that Jose Edmilson has a torn adductor muscle in his left thigh. However, doctors were cautious as to how long he will be out, preferring to wait to see how the injury evolves in the next few days.

Frank Rijkaard has a choice of three possible substitutes for Toure Yaya while the big man is away with the Ivory Coast national team for the African Cup Of Nations. Toure could miss as many as nine games if the Ivory Coast progress to the semi-finals. He will definitely miss both cup games with Sevilla […]

Frank Rijkaard has named a list of 16 players for tomorrow’s second leg cup game with Alcoyano (kick off 6pm local time), and there is no place for Ronaldinho who has tendonitis is his left leg. Also missing are Thierry Henry who has been suffering with migraine and Gianluca Zambrotta who has flu. Leo Messi and Oleguer Presas are […]

Jose Edmilson who has been sidelined since his knee operation in June, has received the all clear to play again. The Brazilian had suffered problems with his knee ever since he was injured back in October 2004 in a game against Numancia. Edmilson has been training with his teammates for the last couple of weeks to get back to […]

In a TV interview on Wednesday evening Jose Edmilson made some very frank remarks about Barcelona’s squad. Without naming names the Brazilian claimed that in the world there were good people and bad and that at Barça like in any family there were some “black sheep”.

It now seems likely that neither Samuel Eto’o nor Deco will be fit in time for the derby match with Espanyol at the start of December. Both players are looking to the weekend of the 8/9 December, when Barça play host to Deportivo, to make their comebacks. Barça will have to make do without them […]

Sporting Director, Txiki Begiristain, confirmed today at Eric Abidal’s presentation, that Anderson Luis de Souza Deco is not for sale. This was in reply to a story run in “The Times” yesterday, that said that Deco could be involved in an exchange deal that would bring Frank Lampard to Barcelona and see Deco move to Chelsea.

The worst fears were confirmed this lunchtime when it was announced Carles Puyol will be on the sidelines for “a minimum of three months”. Puyol successfully underwent surgery on a knee ligament last night but will now almost certainly miss the start of the league on Aug 26. He is also doubtful for the start of […]