Dani Olmo

Central Midfielder - Barcelona
15 Nov 2026
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Marked for Dani Olmo

9 Edition

The Barcelona Courier

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match26 Sep 2026

Nobody wants to play Barcelona right now

6 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.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Tempers go at Barcelona

Pedri 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.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Pedri gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Match26 Sep 2026

Barcelona get the job done against Elche

A 2‑0 win over Elche, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

Anthony Gordon was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.20. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

Ninety minutes of Dani Olmo at his very best

Marked 8.15. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Barcelona.

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

Ferran Torres runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 13. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad28 Sep 2026

The plan did not have a place for Joan García

Nobody at Barcelona is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

The chances came and went for Pedri

4 shots, and a count that reads like a good afternoon until you check the other column. Strikers survive weeks like this on the understanding that the chances keep arriving; the day they stop is the day it becomes a problem.

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8 Edition

The Barcelona Courier

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match19 Sep 2026

Barcelona run riot against Getafe

4‑1, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Match19 Sep 2026

Barcelona make it 5 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Barcelona have 5 straight wins of it.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Pedri in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Barcelona this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

A hand in 2 of them from Dani Olmo — 7.98

Marked 7.98. There is a kind of forward whose value only shows up when you count what he was involved in rather than what he finished, and this is the day that argument makes itself.

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

Nobody could get near Raphinha

Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

The terraces21 Sep 2026

The crowd has taken to Fermín

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

Ninety minutes of Fermín at his very best

Marked 8.45. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Barcelona.

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

One of those days for Ferran Torres

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.20, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Pau Cubarsí falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

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