Gabi Milito and Andres Iniesta have both been ruled out of Barça’s next two games, at home to Valencia on Sunday and Wednesday’s Clasico against Real Madrid. Milito is suffering from a cartilage problem while Iniesta has had a recurrence of his meniscus problems which forced him to miss the game at Recreativo. Iniesta is […]

 
Another month where it seems there is little to smile about. However, as usual when the chips are down our very own Captain Marvel, Carles Puyol, raises his game, and he thoroughly deserves to be named April Player of the Month. He was excellent in the quarter final games with Schalke, and stayed at a […]

With important matches against Espanyol and Manchester United in the next seven days it is good to see that many of the players with physical problems are recovering in time. Deco who hasn’t played since the start of March looks ready to play after training well for the last three days. He may well start […]

The club have reported that Andres Iniesta has a “pinzamiento en el menisco externo” of his left knee. It is times like this I wish I knew more about anatomy. I understand this to be a pinched nerve in the lateral meniscus. The club are running tests to see how serious the problem is. I’m afraid […]

 
Yes, I know some will say that nobody deserves the award after four defeats in seven games this month, and perhaps I should call it least bad player of the month. While some players were truly awful this month a handful saved themselves with some good performances. Due to the lack of candidates some players […]

 
Carles Puyol had to come off after 15 minutes with an ankle injury in Spain’s 1-0 win over Italy. The extent of the injury is not clear yet though it is not thought to be serious and he may be ok to play against Betis on Saturday. Andres Iniesta and Xavi Hernandez both completed the 90 […]

Andres Iniesta has had his last yellow card rescinded by the Appeal Committee and will now be available for Sunday’s game against Valladolid. Barça appealed against Iniesta’s card in the game against Almeria as well as Gabi Milito’s first yellow card. The appeal for Milito, however, was unsuccessful and he will miss Sunday’s game. The […]

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 […]

International friendlies are not usually my cup of tea especially when I was really getting into the Copa del Rey games. But with Bojan supposedly making his debut for Spain, and England playing their first game under Capello I decided to set the video for one game, the DVD recorder for the other game, go out […]

As expected, Andres Iniesta has signed a new contract which will see him stay at Barça until 2014. His current contract was until 2010 and had a buy-out clause of €60 million, this has now been increased to €150 million. No details were given as to his wage increase but undoubtedly there will be one.