Agreement in principle by Rodri Hernández. Barcelona and Manchester City have reached an understanding this Sunday for the player’s arrival in Barcelona. According to La Vanguardia, the latest offer presented does not exceed 70 million euros, with a maximum of 60 million fixed and the rest conditional on variables. Rodri will sign with Barcelona for the next 4 seasons.
Julián Álvarez is not here. Lewandowski and Ferran Torres are history. And the casting for the number nine at Barcelona is still open. But the team of Hansi Flick certainly has goals. They demonstrated it at St. Jakob-Park, in the 5-2 win against Basel through a true feast of team-made goals, just as Flick likes. Adeyemi made his debut and also assisted Hamza Abdelkarim. Lamine Yamal dressed as a seasoned professional to convert a penalty, and Jesse Bisiwu, that prodigious 18-year-old youth whom some compare to the new Dembélé (although his role models are Brazilians like Neymar or Raphinha) and for whom Barça paid 8.5 million to Bruges, proved Deco right. He scored a double as spectacular as it is hard to forget.
Under normal circumstances, this first post-vacation article would be dedicated to the perpetrators of the start of the Spanish League on August 15 with a captivating double feature consisting of an Alavés-Getafe and a subsequent Sevilla-Rayo Vallecano. With all due respect to the…
Spain reigns again in world rhythmic gymnastics. The Spanish team has been crowned world champion in group competition in Frankfurt after finishing ahead of Japan in a competition that returns the national team to the top of the podium 35 years after their last title, won in Athens in 1991.
Once again, race walking, a discipline so often undervalued and even underestimated by World Athletics, saves the face of Spanish athletics in a historic day, with four medals at once, a gold double in the half marathon, and silver and bronze in the marathon. A day to remember. Spain now rises with six medals in the continental championship.
The Welsh cyclist Finlay Tarling, 19 years old, a member of the NSN development team, owned by Andrés Iniesta, died this Friday in an accident while participating in the eighth stage of the Volta a Portugal, according to the race organization. The boy was the brother of fellow cyclist Joshua Tarling (Ineos), 22 years old, world track champion in 2025, and world road bronze medalist (2023).
“It is a lack of respect.” The French Clémence Beretta, a podium contender in the half marathon, did not hold back at the official press conference: the debut at the European Championships in Birmingham of the new road race walking distances will not have the most favorable setting for the athletes. A tiny urban circuit, only 1 km long, shaped like a P, through the narrow streets of central Birmingham –Waterloo Street and Colmore Row, next to Victoria Square, the start and finish of the race– are an invitation to chaos.
The departure of Ferran Torres from Barça will not be traumatic because the Valencian never really connected either on a sporting or emotional level with the culé fans despite posting decent, at times notable, numbers during his four and a half seasons at Camp Nou. The missed chances and some goal droughts have remained more in the memory of Barcelona fans than his 65 goals in his 207 matches as a blaugrana since he joined the club in January 2022.
Manchester City maintains its position in the negotiation for Rodri and has rejected the second offer presented by Barcelona, according to the British newspaper The Times. The Blaugrana club put on the table 60 million euros fixed plus five in variables, after their first proposal, of 45 million, also failed to convince the English team. City considers that neither of the two amounts comes close to their expectations and maintains its valuation around 80 million euros.
It was a matter of time and the negotiations have come to a successful conclusion. Barcelona confirmed to this newspaper that this Thursday afternoon they have reached a preliminary agreement with PSG for the sale of the Valencian forward Ferran Torres. The amount is nearly 50 million euros, in a deal that does not include variables. Ferran will sign a contract with Luis Enrique’s team for five seasons. The attacker had not rejoined work with Barcelona, with the club’s permission, to certify his departure. In this way, Ferran can now travel to Paris. The Foios native informed Barça last week that he wanted to leave. His contract with the Blaugrana was ending at the end of the next season. Barcelona, initially, was waiting for him after being the hero of the World Cup final to start negotiating his renewal in September. But Ferran made it clear that he preferred to go to Paris.