There are defeats that are written on the scoreboard and there are defeats that are written in the soul. Valencia CF has been stuck in the latter for too long. What is truly serious is no longer that the team plays badly, that it signs few players, that it strings together mediocre seasons or that the…
A 1,000-square-meter children’s amusement park next to Barça Café, on the esplanade of the Spotify Camp Nou, and an agreement with Ohana Real Estate Development to create a real estate project in Dubai inspired by the Barça brand. These are two of the projects that began to be created at the end of 2025 and that the club will now take to the assembly on September 19 for the members to decide.
Real Madrid once again left the Betis field empty-handed. Neither at Benito Villamarín nor at La Cartuja has the white team won since 2021, succumbing to the frenzy of the Olympic stadium in a crazy ending, controversy included. A goal by Parrott in the 80th minute brought down José Mourinho’s team, leading to their first defeat, but Madrid resisted falling. They found the goal in an acrobatic shot by Espí just after coming on, which was disallowed for offside, and Mbappé missed a penalty in the 95th minute, the icing on a disastrous night for the Frenchman.
The two young women, one of them a minor, who appear in the illegally distributed sexual content videos that have put Real Madrid defender Raúl Asencio and his former teammates Ferran Ruiz, Juan Rodríguez, and Andrés García on trial, confirmed to the judge this Thursday that they have forgiven the four involved.
Marc Casadó has experienced an intense market finale. The youth player, who spoke with Hansi Flick in June and August and had been separated from the group for two weeks, left at the last minute on loan to Deportivo de La Coruña with a non-obligatory purchase option for 30 million. He leaves in search of playing time. For three midfield positions, there are seven players: Pedri, Gavi, De Jong, Bernal, Fermín, Olmo, and Rodri. He had interest from teams like Leverkusen, coached by Barça-trained Carles Martínez, and he firmly rejected moving to Arabia (he is 22 years old and it did not fit into his career), and he conveyed this to Jorge Mendes.
Marc Casadó (Sant Pere de Vilamajor, 2003) has had a quiet summer in which he has tried to stay away from the rumors placing him on Barça’s exit ramp. While interest from clubs in Saudi Arabia and Monaco, where Ansu Fati plays, was arriving, the blaugrana midfielder took advantage of early June to go on a safari in Tanzania with his partner, Noa Brea. He needed to disconnect.
Real Madrid center-back Raúl Asencio continues to face legal troubles. On August 19 — two weeks before the trial begins for the crimes of child pornography and disclosure of secrets for the dissemination of a sexual video of a minor — the player was convicted of driving under the influence of alcohol in the south of Gran Canaria, as reported today by the local media Atlántico.
Marc Casadó was the last to say goodbye to Barcelona. It was very hard for him. The youth player, who spoke with Flick in June and had been separated from the group for two weeks, left at the last minute, just before the deadline, on loan to Deportivo de La Coruña in a deal that reached a verbal agreement at 11:00 p.m. Five minutes before the deadline, the player was registered in LaLiga. Barça, which aimed to earn 30 million for the midfielder, was negotiating until the last moment to include a mandatory purchase option for that amount.
Dream and happiness, the two most overused words in those darn self-help books, have long been knocking on the doors of sports journalism, which has obviously opened them wide with predictable delight. ‘The dream of Julián Álvarez’ and ‘the sadness of Lamine…
Hansi Flick said in the preview that you can’t smile every day. But Barça fans have done nothing else since the league started. Three wins in three matches. Monday’s 5-2 win against Rayo Vallecano. Raphinha, who scored a double, keeps smiling non-stop. Gordon, indispensable, smiles. And on the third, Lamine Yamal finally smiled. Immersed in a wave of relief and rage, the Rocafonda native slid across the Camp Nou pitch seeking the fans’ embrace. His goal, after Raphinha’s first, was a turning point. It confirmed the Barça comeback against a Rayo that, without knowing how, had taken the lead. Gordon’s selfless magic, the new idol of the Barça stronghold, caused the 3-1 own goal by Lejeune. Camello closed the gap with the 3-2. Raphinha, relentless, provided the fourth of the night, and the relentless Lamine completed the rout, handing Barça the leadership on a silver platter. This Barça, the one that keeps winning three points at a time, is unstoppable.