Barcelona
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Real Betis sign former Man City, Barcelona goalkeeper Claudio Bravo
Football | Aug 31, 2020, 11:06 AM ISTThe 37-year-old has signed a one-year contract at Betis with an option for another year included in the deal. The Chilean has become the second signing of the club for the 2020/2021 LaLiga season.
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Lionel Messi skips required coronavirus testing with Barcelona
Football | Aug 30, 2020, 05:03 PM ISTBarcelona said Messi was the only player who did not undergo the tests at the club’s training center. The team is set to resume training on Monday ahead of the upcoming start of the season.
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Lionel Messi refuses to take planned coronavirus test with Barcelona: Report
Football | Aug 30, 2020, 11:08 AM ISTUnder 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 | Aug 29, 2020, 06:17 PM ISTSpanish 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 | Aug 29, 2020, 06:00 PM ISTAlbert 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 | Aug 28, 2020, 11:52 PM ISTThe 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 | Aug 28, 2020, 05:54 PM ISTEarlier 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 | Aug 28, 2020, 08:24 AM ISTLionel 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 | Aug 27, 2020, 07:06 PM ISTBarcelona 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 | Aug 27, 2020, 09:59 AM ISTAs 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 | Aug 26, 2020, 11:47 PM ISTMessi 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 | Aug 26, 2020, 07:14 PM ISTA 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 | Aug 26, 2020, 03:51 PM ISTMessi 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 | Aug 25, 2020, 11:36 PM ISTThe 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 | Aug 25, 2020, 07:41 PM ISTNeither 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 | Aug 25, 2020, 12:54 PM ISTBarcelona'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 | Aug 25, 2020, 09:35 AM ISTSuarez'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 | Aug 24, 2020, 09:33 AM ISTFollowing 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 | Aug 21, 2020, 07:57 PM ISTMessi 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 | Aug 19, 2020, 03:57 PM ISTAs 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.