Jan Cano

Right Midfielder - Barcelona U18
22 Jun 2028
Thursday
Process

Marked for Jan Cano

72 Edition

The Barcelona Courier

13 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Barcelona make it 10 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Barcelona have 10 straight wins of it.

Match

A European night to remember for Barcelona

1‑0 against Grasshopper, under lights, against people who do not speak the same language as the crowd. These are the evenings a club measures its decade in, and there are never as many of them as anybody expects.

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Jan Cano

17 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Barcelona lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market

Rodri raises the bar for Barcelona

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Barcelona heard it as anything else.

Match

Barcelona are at home on the road

6 straight away victories. Sides that win away are usually sides that can defend and can counter, and the table has begun to reflect what those journeys have earned.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Lamine Yamal

Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Real improvement from Raúl Sánchez at Barcelona

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Raúl Sánchez is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

Nicolas Pépé wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Barcelona can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

Squad

Tempers go at Barcelona

Facundo Bernal was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

In brief

Back issues
71 Edition

The Barcelona Courier

6 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Nobody wants to play Barcelona right now

9 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Match

Barcelona march on in the cup

Guadalajara are out and Barcelona go through, 2‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.

Squad

The knee: Jan Cano out for 24 days

24 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Barcelona lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Match

Barcelona leave it late against Celta

Ninety minutes of very little, and then everything at once. The winner arrived in the 87th, and Celta spent what remained of the match appealing to the referee rather than chasing the ball.

Boardroom

Somebody wants to buy Barcelona

Nothing has been signed and nothing has been denied. Supporters who have lived through one of these before know the quiet part lasts months and the loud part lasts a week.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Lamine Yamal at 20 — 7.61

The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Lamine Yamal did not need any: 7.61, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Market

Lamine Yamal wants more than Barcelona are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

The dugout

Izei Santiago keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Barcelona may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Player ratings

Rasmus Højlund runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

  • Match The run at home goes on for Barcelona
  • Match Another one collected away from home
  • Match Barcelona find a way past Celta
70 Edition

The Barcelona Courier

29 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

A statement in Europe from Barcelona

4‑0 against MSK Zilina, and a performance that will change how the rest of the competition talks about this club. Reputations in continental football are built in single evenings and this was one.

Squad

The knee: Jan Cano out for 33 days

33 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Barcelona lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Match

Barcelona up to position 2

26 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

Match

Barcelona make it 7 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Barcelona have 7 straight wins of it.

Match

Fermín breaks Racing Santander hearts

Some goals win a match and some take one off somebody else. Fermín scored in the 89th minute, Racing Santander had already begun thinking about the journey home, and Barcelona took the lot.

Player ratings

A brace, and Lamine Yamal takes the afternoon — 8.59

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Lamine Yamal provided it, and the 8.59 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Ante Budimir yet — 7.83

At 36 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.83 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad

Remember the name: Lamine Yamal

He is 20, he is averaging 7.13, and older professionals have started passing to him in the difficult minutes. That last part is the real scouting report.

Match

The run at home goes on for Barcelona

10 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.

In brief

  • Squad Tempers go at Barcelona
  • Match Another one collected away from home
  • The terraces Barcelona supporters have found a favourite in Marc Bernal