FC Barcelona writer at @TheAthleticFC
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FC Barcelona charged with corruption over payments to former referees chief
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Brutal from Ikay Gündogan after El Clasico: “After such a result, I expected an angrier dressing room”
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🔴 Barcelona putting more pressure on Frenkie de Jong to leave the club and join Manchester United
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Guardiola: “Klopp ha sido el mayor rival de mi carrera. El día que me retire y esté jugando a golf, miraré atrás y pensaré que el Liverpool fue el oponente más duro del camino. Sin duda”
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Marcelo Bielsa es un maldito enfermo. Marcelo Bielsa es un maldito Dios. Aquí un resumen de lo que ha hecho esta tarde en Leeds.
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Pep Guardiola sobre @AitanaBonmati:
"L’Aitana és una futbolista de la qual estic completament enamorat de la manera com juga. Diria que és com l'Iniesta del futbol femení. L'actual equip del Barça ha tingut un impacte increïble".
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This is mad. An absolute disgrace. Espanyol fans invading the pitch trying to assault Barça players & staff celebrating their league title. Footage is shocking.
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Ese hombre que sale de trabajar y enfila el camino a casa, pero lo piensa bien y dice que no, que mejor invertir la tarde de un lunes en cerrarse en una cafeteria y jugar al Football Manager. Se le ve feliz.
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FT, 3-1. Xavi gets his first title as a Barça manager in a signature win, against Real Madrid. If you are looking for something like a 'turning point', that's what they are made of. Pedri is 20. Balde is 19. Gavi is 18.
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Some personal news...
I'm joining @TheAthleticUK from today. It's difficult to be more excited. I'll try not to write any more stuff about my days as a bartender and focus on City, United, the Premier League and Spanish-speakers involved on the game.
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🚨 Excl: Manchester City - Ilkay Gündogan, done deal.
Gündogan will sign a one-year contract plus another one optional. He writes off two years of contract as Barcelona - additional season was triggered after he played over 60% of games last season.
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Guardiola tornarà al Camp Nou aquest estiu
🤝 Acord entre Barça i Manchester City per jugar el pròxim Gamper.
⚽️ La intenció és que s’enfrontin equips masculins i també els femenins.
Partit dedicat a Juan Carlos Unzúe. Tots els beneficis es donaran a la investigació de l’ELA.
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Haaland has no preferential terms to join Real Madrid. But he will be have a price.
💰 €200m RC in 2024
🇬🇧 Does not apply to Premier League rivals & will decrease
🔵 For now, Haaland can’t be happier at City - here’s why
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La passada de Busquets aquí. Quants pivots fan això en aquest context? Me’n surten pocs.
RFEF
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Gavi, a guy who'd be a star anywhere in the world but is struggling for minutes at Barça (coming back from an ACL injury), celebrates his goal vs Betis hugging and thanking Flick for his support through the year.
The sort of stuff you don't see often now.
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🥁🥁🥁 So, here we are.
I’m moving into a new role at @TheAthleticFC: FC Barcelona correspondent.
I'm losing Champions League football -for now- but getting a fair share of sunlight & the chance to cover one of the most exciting topics in the industry.
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A Manchester acaben de fer dos carrils per caminar exclusivament mentre parles pel mòbil, un invent collonut per confirmar que avancem amb fermesa cap a la merda.
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“Si no la guanyem, la gent ha de saber una cosa: He sigut molt feliç aquí. I alguns n’estan gelosos. Em sap greu” 2/2
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Excl: Pau Victor set to join SC Braga on a permanent deal. €12m fixed fee plus €3m in add-ons. Total agreement between clubs. Personal terms to be discussed and finalised soon.
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A bit of personal news.
Last year, I covered my last football game while living in the UK.
Manchester gave me a dream job, loads of people I love and seven of the best years of my life.
Thanks to everyone who has been a part of them.
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Interview with Jaume Roures - the most important person in Spanish football you’ve (maybe) never heard of.
🧶 Madrid levers, La Liga’s responsability on Barça’s struggles, Superleague “won’t exist”, potential CL final in NY. And more.
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FC Barcelona has missed in recent years a lot of the qualities Ilkay Gündogan has on a football pitch.
But nothing feels more ‘gone’ than the ruthless mentality he shows here.
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Girona and Southampton working on Oriol Romeu's deal despite Lavia's injury.
Edozie and Larios heading to Southampton - first shout from @FabrizioRomano - open a door for Romeu going to Girona given the Man City/CFG links.
There's still work to do.
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Repreguntado por Mourinho:
“¡No es un reproche a Mourinho! Aquí he estado más años, y en los últimos cinco nos hemos jugado el título. Mourinho es un entrenador fantástico y tuvimos un gran duelo en Barcelona. Pero contra Klopp hemos jugado más, también en Alemania”
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Fútbol con los ojos | Tomás Izquierdo
Ref calling Barça and Rayo captains, De Jong and Isi Palazon, to tell them VAR not working in Vallecas and the match will go on like that.
Back to the good old days I guess (in all seriousness, not a great look for La Liga).
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Announce Haaland! Why Manchester City’s superstar has not yet been unveiled
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Morning everyone.
Pep Guardiola and Man City have reached an agreement in principle for a new contract. Pep would stay in the Premier League and it could be official shortly. Looks like more than a one-year extension.
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🔵⚪️ Cucurella’s transfer stalling. Brighton not entertaining any offer. City could rise their offer up to £40m. Does not seem to be enough.
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🚨 News here...
Pep Guardiola has agreed a two-year extension with Manchester City.
He'd remain at the club until 2025, although either party could end the deal sooner if they wanted - just as they signed in 2020.
w/ @SamLee, @David_Ornstein
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El suspiro de Guardiola después de que le hicieran dos preguntas sobre si mañana hará el pasillo al Real Madrid 😅
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📝 Here’s the biggest contribution I’ll ever bring to Catalan culture.
@TheAthleticUK has changed its style to refer to the stadium as Camp Nou, not Nou Camp.
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Marc Cucurella, Brighton and Manchester City.
Talks to start within days. Brighton to ask £50m-plus. City expecting to negotiate, or will walk away. Chelsea expected on the mix too. Cucurella more seduced by City. And more stuff.
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Tot apunta a que és culpa del City i de Guardiola que els vuitens de la Champions es juguin exactament on s’havien de jugar.
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Bernardo Silva starting in Newcastle.
Coming off the bench the last two games had nothing to do with transfer rumors around him. Been told lately there won’t be an offer capable to make City change their minds in the next 10 days.
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Story on the @TimesSport.
Manchester City in talks with Bernardo Silva to sign a new contract. City seen among footballers as the best place in the world to play a certain type of football, which suits Bernardo quite well if you ask me.
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Didn’t expect to see an outstanding knee slide by Pau Cubarsí’s dad today tbh nitter.app/user23_17/status/18785…
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A bit more on Man City - Erling Haaland situation, after @Jack_Gaughan story last night. thetimes.co.uk/article/manch…
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Rodri had a calf issue in yesterday's training session. Pep wanted to wait on how he’d feel this morning. He’s not fit to play. Gundogan will be holding midfielder.
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Verbal agreement in place Barça-Nico Williams. The winger made Barça his priority and the club came back for him.
At Athletic, clear feeling he is leaving. Barça working on freeing up salary space to register him. Paying the RC not seen as huge problem.
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From this morning: Kalvin Phillips is top of Manchester City’s midfield list thetimes.co.uk/article/kalvi…
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This might be too brutal, someone might feel it’s too much.
But that’s the most honest and wise game assessment coming from Barça last night imo.
CBS Sports Golazo ⚽️
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🔵 Interview with Manuel Akanji, who speaks brilliantly on how his signing happened, why watching Pep’s City on TV is way different than playing alongside them and why he’s not 5th choice at CB.
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•Adam•
I’ve always believed that a duty of getting old in my generation is to tell every kid who intends to like football 'you really don’t know how good Sergio Busquets was'.
Outrageous footballer. A unicorn that redefined his position. Absolute greatness.
UEFA Champions League
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🚨 Excl: Man City are close to an agreement to sign Manuel Akanji from Borussia Dortmund.
w/ @David_Ornstein and @SamLee
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Pau Cubarsi and the art of passing. How he's built his craft + great insight on La Masia's methods.
Full interview: nytimes.com/athletic/6746199…
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Marc Cucurella: From brink of Burnley move to a £63m Chelsea signing.
✈️ A visit to Burnley last year
📲 First contacts from Granovskaia and Cech
🏠 Jokes on finding a place in Manchester
🏝 Turning point at Boehly's villa in Mykonos
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I can’t see how Rashford is not involved in this
A through ball to offside Marcus Rashford is left for Bruno Fernandes to fire Manchester United level.
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Watch the Manchester derby live on BT Sport
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Expect formal contacts with City and Brighton to start soon then
🚨 EXCL: Arsenal finalising move for Oleksandr Zinchenko from Man City after reaching agreement in principle on 4yr contract. Fee £30m + £2m achievable adds & now personal terms in place too. If all goes to plan, medical then sign @TheAthleticUK #MCFC #AFC theathletic.com/news/arsenal…
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🚨 Manchester City are among clubs interested in Ilkay Gundogan’s situation. Clubs from Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar have shown interest too.
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Pep Guardiola sobre Xavi: “No en tinc cap dubte, està preparat per entrenar al Barça. En sap de futbol, coneix l’entorn del club, que això és molt important al Barça, i té més experiència que la que tenia jo quan vaig arribar a la banqueta”.
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Barcelona are an outstanding football team. One every single fan is extremely proud of. They have everything to keep progressing into a great, great generation.
They have not been good enough in both boxes, being brilliant offensively. But those are CL fine margins.
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City stand firm on Bernardo Silva valuation amid Barcelona interest.
Sources insist the only way for him to leave the club would be through a *huge* offer. Relationship with Mendes - which is v good - won’t soften their stance.
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Barcelona paid £1.2m to referee chief’s company between 2016 and 2018
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En bus camino a Burnley, donde hoy juega el Manchester City. Una ciudad que John Cooper Clark, poeta de Salford, definió con honestidad en una de sus obras: “I’m telling you, I’m telling you firmly, you don’t want to go to Burnley”.
Yo pienso que ir una vez al año está bien.
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Nico Williams expected to stay in Bilbao next season.
Both Athletic and Barcelona are currently working/planning with this assumption.
Barça still waiting for the player’s formal confirmation.
w/ @Laia_Cervello
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An announcement here. We have a new baby! @LuMartinBCN. The time spent in football grounds and pubs ended up with a new book (finally in English). It’s about how the last 3 seasons weren’t so bad for City. Out on October 22nd in the UK.
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Guardiola sobre el banquillo del Barça:
"Barcelona es un sitio especial porqué ganar la liga no es suficiente. Me sabe muy mal por Ernesto Valverde, no se merece esto. Ojalá se pueda solucionar pronto la situación, como socio de este club. Esto es todo".
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Remember the name: Liam Delap.
One of Liam Delap's goals who scored a hattrick for #ManCity U18 against Everton! 🔥
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As @David_Ornstein reported earlier, Haaland gets one step closer to Man City. @TimesSport
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🚨 Manchester City are frontrunners to re-sign Ilkay Gundogan.
He is expected to leave Barcelona for free. Terms between the player and City still need to be discussed. Pep and Gundogan have already spoken.
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Andreas Christensen. A silent worker. At some point of his career, that probably hasn't helped. Last week, he became one of the best performers for Xavi's Barcelona. This is how: theathletic.com/4080048/2023…
w/ @Laia_Cervello and @SJohnsonSport
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🔵⚪️ Marc Cucurella hands in Brighton transfer request to push for Manchester City move - with @AndyNaylorBHAFC
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Anécdota con Guardiola. Ha confesado que le enseñó el informe que preparó con el Athletic para afrontar la final de Copa del Rey de 2013, que perdieron 3-0. “Sabes más del Barça que yo”, reaccionó Pep alucinado.
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Just in: Chelsea evaluating move for Fermin López. No club-to-club contact yet. By @David_Ornstein.
@TheAthleticFC
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Manchester City working to bring Juanma Lillo back.
Lillo’s assistant, Iñigo Domínguez, could be joining City too.
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💬 Pep Guardiola sobre Eric Garcia 1/2:
“Es muy inteligente y presta atención absolutamente a todo. Hoy, por ejemplo, antes del partido no sabíamos si el Watford jugaría con cuatro o cinco defensas. En el calentamiento vio ejercicios suyos, vino y me dijo: ‘Jugarán con cuatro’".
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Marcus Rashford will have, at least, one great game that will last in the Barça fans' memories.
Great Champions League start. Flick ecstatic in the touchline. Excellent management of the dying minutes. Pedri is the best footballer in the world.
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In Manchester there's the feeling that if City had offered Gundo two years, he would have stayed.
City pushed to their limits of "sensible business". Gundogan gets his dream move and a challenge he is now relishing for.
More detail here.
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🔵 Riyad Mahrez close to signing new Manchester City contract @TheAthleticUK theathletic.com/news/riyad-m…
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To all the wonderful people and Man City fans I’ve met during the last seven years of my life: Congratulations. Those will always be the days.
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Sergi Roberto and Franck Kessie ‘winning’ the league for Barcelona. You had to be there 😅
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If you’re wondering why Cucurella is heading to Chelsea, despite the fact that Man City had set him as top priority for the left back since May, we tried to explain all the process here. With @SamLee.
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“Estos informes no son muy útiles ni te dejan en mejor sitio para ganar, pero es como respetamos el deporte. No puedo hablar inglés, pero puedo hablar de los 24 equipos de mi liga”.
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Xavi on Ilkay Gündogan:
“When Gundo has the ball, everything gets better. As simple as that. He does everything well, absolutely everything. If we play good is because of guys like him. His signing was heaven-sent, honestly. A superlative player, a total joy to watch”.
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‘A big game for a big cause’. FC Barcelona - Manchester City, August 24, officially announced.
Event at the Camp Nou right now with Unzue, Laporta and Guardiola.
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Chuffed to have this feeling again.
Updated version of Pep’s City, with a new 5.000-word chapter covering the Treble season, is already out.
All love to the one and only @LuMartinBCN, and @BackPagePress.
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Ferran Torres to FCB. 55M€ + 10/12M€ add-ons confirmed by all sides.
Barça getting an upgrade in their La Liga top-4 pursuit. City cashing in big money for a footballer they've paid around 28M€ in a year and a half. More in the @TimesSport soon.
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El penal no assenyalat més increíble que he vist en els últims 27 anys de vida, que també serien els primers, per altra banda.
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