The Barcelona Courier
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
An offer of $48.2M for Sergi Cardona
Barcelona have gone to Villarreal with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Market10 Aug 2026
Barcelona spend $42.4M to raise the standard
This is not cover and nobody is pretending it is. $42.4M has been paid because Victor Osimhen is straightforwardly better than what was already here, and the club has decided to stop waiting.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Athletic Bilbao tell Barcelona: Oihan Sancet is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Victor Osimhen gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Victor Osimhen has just signed for Barcelona, and for once the answer mattered.
Market10 Aug 2026
Pedri wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Barcelona hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Joan García stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Joan García and Barcelona agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Barcelona
Rodri and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Barcelona go back to the board over Sergi Cardona
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $53.2M — a club that wants Sergi Cardona enough to be asked twice.
Market10 Aug 2026
Tomás Prieto steps up from the Barcelona academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Tomás Prieto has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
In brief
- Market Barcelona promote Daniel Blanco from within
- Squad No place for Victor Osimhen in the new shape
- The dugout Joan García asks for a word with the manager