The Barcelona Courier
Match21 Aug 2027
Barcelona cannot stop winning
12 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
Liverpool tell Barcelona: Hugo Ekitiké 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.
Match21 Aug 2027
Another one collected away from home
10 on the bounce on the road for Barcelona. The coaches leave early, arrive at unlovely grounds in the dark, and keep coming home with three points.
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
Yoshan Valois will not be coming to Barcelona
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Lanús is saying, and nobody at Barcelona is enjoying the guessing.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
Lamine Yamal, 20, steals the show — 7.82
Marked 7.82 at 20, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Market23 Aug 2027
João Cancelo hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Barcelona can pretend not to have heard.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Dani Olmo pulls a muscle — 15 days out
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 15 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Words exchanged at Barcelona
Frenkie de Jong 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.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
Graduation day at Barcelona
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
In brief
- The terraces One of their own: Lamine Yamal
- Market Barcelona promote Tomás Rubio from within
- Market One of our own: Jan Ramírez joins the Barcelona first team