Eric García

Right Back - Barcelona
8 Jun 2031
Sunday
Process
Overview Personal Contract News 2 Transfers Relations Events 115 Awards 14 Matches History

Marked for Eric García

221 Edition

The Barcelona Courier

21 Oct 2030
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match19 Oct 2030

Whatever happens, Barcelona do not lose

18 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Match19 Oct 2030

Barcelona tear Las Palmas apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 6‑1 against Las Palmas, and it could have been more.

Player ratings21 Oct 2030

Both of them Hugo Ekitiké's — 9.77

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.77, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Player ratings21 Oct 2030

Lamine Yamal scores twice — 8.60

Two goals and a mark of 8.60 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Loan watch21 Oct 2030

Endrick keeps scoring at Mallorca

9 appearances away from home and 23 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.

Squad21 Oct 2030

Words exchanged at Barcelona

Pedri 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.

Market21 Oct 2030

Only the photograph left for Hugo Bueno

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Hugo Bueno will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Barcelona the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Match19 Oct 2030

Barcelona make home a hard place to visit

10 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

Match19 Oct 2030

Nobody could stop scoring

7 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Barcelona and Las Palmas in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

In brief

Back issues
192 Edition

The Barcelona Courier

1 Apr 2030
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match30 Mar 2030

No mercy from Barcelona

Celta will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Barcelona were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.

Squad1 Apr 2030

Hugo Ekitiké is carrying Barcelona

22 goals and a season average of 7.53. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Player ratings1 Apr 2030

Pedri scores twice — 8.22

Two goals and a mark of 8.22 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Match30 Mar 2030

Barcelona are at home on the road

8 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.

Market1 Apr 2030

Jon Karrikaburu puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Barcelona, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout1 Apr 2030

Santi Comesaña: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Barcelona have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad1 Apr 2030

A falling-out at Barcelona

Hugo Ekitiké and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Market1 Apr 2030

Cyle Larin is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Barcelona is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad1 Apr 2030

A row about effort at Barcelona

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Lamine Yamal was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

In brief

  • Player ratings Anthony Gordon beats them one at a time
  • Player ratings Hugo Ekitiké was on a different afternoon to everybody else
  • Player ratings Eric García was on a different afternoon to everybody else