Barcelona doctors have confirmed that Toure Yaya has suffered a tear to the femoral biceps muscle in his left leg. This is the muscle at the back of the thigh. He will be out of action for one month. Toure was injured five minutes from the end of last night’s game against Levante and had […]

There were mixed fortunes for Barça players in the latest international matches. Ronaldinho came out better than Rafa Marquez as Brazil beat Mexico 3-1 in Boston, Giovani dos Santos came on as sub for the last 16 minutes.

Ronaldinho Gaucho capped a fine performance with a goal in Brazil’s 4-2 win over USA in yesterday’s friendly match. Ronnie also played a part in Brazil’s first two goals. First he set up Kaka to shoot and the goalkeeper’s save rebounded off a defender for an own goal. Lucio then headed home a Ronaldinho corner […]

Ronaldinho will no longer occupy a non-european place as today he swore on the Spanish constitution to become officially a Spanish citizen. Giovani dos Santos is also expected to gain Spanish citizenship in the next few days. This means that Barça will have only Eto’o and Touré as non-EU players.

Three days before official training restarts, new signings Thierry Henry and Touré Yaya both turned up for light training today. Touré arrived this morning to do  a session of running and stretching on his own, and this afternoon Henry joined him. It is good to see they are keen to begin work. They have both […]

Touré Yaya was presented this lunchtime as Barça’s latest signing. Touré surprised everybody with a change of name, the number 17 shirt that he will play in for the next four seasons will bear the name Touré Yaya.

Yaya Touré arrived in Barcelona today to agree the final details of his contract. Touré is expected to sign for four seasons and he will earn approximately €1.8M per season. Barça are believed to have agreed a price of €10M with Monaco. Thierry Henry is also expected to arrive in the city this afternoon.

Joan Laporta revealed today that Samuel Eto’o will remain at Barça. Laporta also confirmed that Ronaldinho and Frank Rijkaard will also be here.