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  Lionel Messi refuses to take planned coronavirus test with Barcelona: Report

  Football | August 30, 2020 11:08 IST

  Under the four-year contract signed in 2017, Messi can leave the club for free if he requests it by June 10. Messi invoked this clause, but Barca said it had already expired.

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  Barcelona unwilling to negotiate Lionel Messi departure

  Football | August 29, 2020 18:17 IST

  Spanish media say Messi has contacted the club to try to resolve the situation, but Barcelona confirmed on Saturday that it will not negotiate to allow Messi to depart before his contract ends next year.

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  Barcelona appoint Hyderabad FC's Albert Roca as fitness coach; wish ISL club success for next season

  Football | August 29, 2020 18:00 IST

  Albert Roca has parted ways with Hyderabad FC to join Ronald Koeman at Barcelona.

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  Lionel Messi remains silent after Barcelona president Josep Bartomeu's offer to resign

  Football | August 28, 2020 23:52 IST

  The club has told Messi that president Josep Bartomeu will resign if that is what it takes to keep the playmaker, but Barcelona said on Friday there was no word yet from Messi on the offer.

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  Stunned, incredulous: How Real Madrid reacted at Lionel Messi's Barcelona exit talk

  Football | August 28, 2020 17:54 IST

  Earlier this week, Messi told the club and his teammates about his intention to leave Barcelona this summer despite having a contract until 2021. 

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  After Barcelona, Lionel Messi's Argentine hometown dreams of player's return

  Football | August 28, 2020 8:24 IST

  Lionel Messi's decision to leave Barcelona has sparked unlikely dreams in residents of Rosario, that he would return to play for his boyhood club, Newell's Old Boys.

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  Lionel Messi's departure jeopardizes Barcelona’s restructuring plan

  Football | August 27, 2020 19:06 IST

  Barcelona were basing their revamp on Messi, hoping he would help the team rebuild with new players and a new coach. But the type of changes the team began implementing may have actually turned him away.

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  Lionel Messi: 6 Ballon d'Or, 634 goals, El Clasico legend and a Guinness record holder | In numbers

  Football | August 27, 2020 9:59 IST

  As the speculation over his next club begins to take shape and Barcelona attempting to every bit in their hands to stop the legend, we bring you some of the extraordinary numbers from Messi's glorious career at Camp Nou.

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  Where next, Lionel Messi? Few clubs can meet his financial demands

  Football | August 26, 2020 23:47 IST

  Messi is trying to force a move after 20 years with Barcelona, which wants to hold him to a contract that runs through June 2021.

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  Barcelona still hoping Lionel Messi will stay with the club

  Football | August 26, 2020 19:14 IST

  A day after the Argentine great told the club he wants to leave, Barcelona said its restructuring project still revolves around the player.

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  Messi had a word with Guardiola on possible Manchester City move before Barcelona announcement

  Football | August 26, 2020 15:51 IST

  Messi on Tuesday informed the club and his teammates on his intention to leave this summer, despite having a contract until 2021. 

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  Lionel Messi tells Barcelona he wants to leave the club

  Football | August 25, 2020 23:36 IST

  The announcement comes 11 days after Barcelona’s humiliating 8-2 loss to Bayern Munich in the Champions League quarterfinals, one of the worst defeats in the player’s career and in the club’s history.

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  Luis Suárez, Ivan Rakitic, Arturo Vidal and Samuel Umtiti could be leaving Barcelona

  Football | August 25, 2020 19:41 IST

  Neither the club nor the coach have said publicly who is staying and who is leaving, but those four players reportedly have already been told that they are not in Koeman’s plans.

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  Haven't thought about that: Philippe Coutinho on his future

  Football | August 25, 2020 12:54 IST

  Barcelona's record signing spent this season at Bayern after struggling to make an impact in the previous 18 months at the Camp Nou.

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  Uruguayan striker Luis Suarez set to leave Barcelona: Report

  Football | August 25, 2020 9:35 IST

  Suarez's contract at the Camp Nou is due to expire at the end of June 2021 and the 33-year-old's lawyers will presumably speak to the club to try to rescind that deal to allow him to become a free agent.

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  Newly-signed Miralem Pjanic tests positive for COVID-19, confirms Barcelona

  Football | August 24, 2020 9:33 IST

  Following the conclusion of Juventus and Barcelona's Champions League campaigns, Pjanic was now free to join the club, but he will not yet travel to Barcelona after testing positive for the deadly virus.

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  Lionel Messi’s silence raises more doubts about Barcelona future

  Football | August 21, 2020 19:57 IST

  Messi hasn’t made any public statement since Barcelona's 8-2 loss to Bayern Munich in the Champions League quarterfinals last week, putting in doubt his permanence with the struggling Catalan club.

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  Barcelona officially announce Ronald Koeman as their new coach

  Football | August 19, 2020 15:57 IST

  As a player, Koeman helped Barcelona clinch its first European title by scoring an extra-time winner in a final nearly two decades ago, and now the former defender is set to return to try to lift the club from its current crisis.

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  Lionel Messi is untouchable and non-transferable: Barcelona president Josep Bartomeu

  Football | August 19, 2020 10:54 IST

  Bartomeu claims that the Argentine superstar is untouchable and non-transferable. The 57-year-old also listed the players who will not be put for sale in the transfer window this season.

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  Ronald Koeman will be Barcelona's new coach, confirms club president Josep Bartomeu

  Football | August 19, 2020 8:35 IST

  Bartomeu said in an interview with Barça TV that negotiations with the Dutchman are advanced but that a deal had yet to be signed.