The Barcelona Courier
Match9 Dec 2027
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.
Match9 Dec 2027
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.
Squad13 Dec 2027
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.
Market13 Dec 2027
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.
Match9 Dec 2027
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 ratings13 Dec 2027
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.
Squad13 Dec 2027
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.
Squad13 Dec 2027
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.
Squad13 Dec 2027
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
- Player ratings Nobody on the pitch touched Anthony Gordon
- Loan watch Daniel Montes counts the days
- The dugout When it matters, Lamine Yamal plays