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The footballing world was shocked when Messi departed Barcelona last year, with the Catalans being unable to renew his contract due to the financial situation.

The relationship between Messi and Laporta has not been at its best due to the manner of the former’s exit last summer. PSG, for their part, plan to keep hold of the 35-year-old global icon and want to hand him a new contract. He has made a fine start to the new season, scoring a stunning goal for Les Parisiens against Clermont Foot recently.

Barcelona warmed up for the 2022/23 campaign in style as they thrashed Mexican side Pumas 6-0 at Camp Nou to win the Joan Gamper Trophy.

Hailing the energy and the intensity that his team showed, Xavi added: “With this intensity and desire levels, we’re doing well. About nine minutes later, Barcelona were four goals to the good, with Pedri doubling his tally on the evening. Pedri doubled the Catalans’ lead two minutes later before Ousmane Dembele made it 3-0 in the tenth minute.

FC Barcelona and Lionel Messi have opened negotiations for the club legend to return to the Camp Nou in 2023.

Right at the time he appears to finally be finding his feet with his French employers, however, Messi is being linked back to his first love and boyhood club. Aged 36 by the time he becomes a free agent again if not putting pen to paper once more with PSG, Messi could sign for Barca for a year or two it is said and therefore retire at the club he spent over two decades with after arriving at the La Masia academy as a teenager from Argentina. On June 30 next year, Messi's contract ends with his current club Paris Saint Germain with whom he is said to have the option of extending for another 12 months should he wish.

Barcelona newcomer Robert Lewandowski gave Camp Nou a dazzling first-half performance on Sunday in the Joan Gamper Trophy that saw him score and register ...

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Frenkie de Jong's treatment by FC Barcelona fans in the Joan Gamper Trophy match against Club Universidad Nacional on Sunday could decide his future at the ...

Should he be well-received, however, as has been the case for the most part of his La Liga tenure, it could further convince him that his current stance is the right one and push him into accepting a hefty salary reduction. If given a frosty reception by the home fans unimpressed by his protests, he could have a change of heart and cave in to Chelsea's proposal. Yet despite Barca seeming to want him gone so that they can free up space on the wage bill and make an approach for David Silva, De Jong is still adamant on staying in Catalonia and being a part of Xavi Hernandez's promising sporting project.

Robert Lewandowski scored his first Barcelona goal in a 6-0 rout of Mexican side Pumas in the Joan Gamper Trophy pre-season clash on Sunday.

Barcelona legend Lionel Messi did not make the cut in four of Franck Kessie's greatest players of all time to ever grace the pitch; Kessie instead showed he ...

He is expected to play a key part in Xavi Hernandez's revolution and rebuild at Barcelona. The Ivory Coast international once said that he is not afraid of running and putting in the work on the pitch. Kessie is expected to play a key part in Xavi Hernandez's revolution and rebuild at Barcelona. The Ivory Coast international once said that he is not afraid of running and putting in the work on the pitch. Kessie completed a move to Barcelona after failing to agree to a new deal with AC Milan. He has penned a four-year contract in Spain and will be unveiled officially on Wednesday, July 6th.

This news was first reported by Catalunya Radio on Sunday evening after Barcelona thrashed Mexican side Pumas UNAM 6-0 in the Joan Gamper Trophy.

Meanwhile, Messi has had a promising start to the Ligue 1 season with the Parc des Princes club. We will do our best to have Messi ending his career with Barcelona.” Now is not the best moment to talk about it since he is a player of PSG and he has one more year on his contract. We have to respect it.” “I feel a moral debt to the best player in history. “I would like to do it.

BARCELONA star Frenkie de Jong is a top Manchester United and Chelsea transfer target.

“There’s a lot on that De Jong deal,” said Neville. “Just generally. And with the Catalan titans pushing to land Bernardo Silva from Manchester City, that new development gives both teams hope of striking a deal. Manchester United and Chelsea are both keen to land the Netherlands international. “If he’s said ‘no I’m not coming I want to stay at Barcelona’ or ‘I want to go to London to play in the Champions League’, surely at that point United would have said ‘we’re out of the race for Frenkie de Jong. Barcelona are, however, open to keeping hold of De Jong if the player agrees to take a pay cut. Barcelona star Frenkie de Jong still has no plans to take a pay cut at the club, according to reports.

Barcelona president Joan Laporta has extended an olive branch to De Jong to publicly invite him to stay, and says he is confident he will.

This week they have to fix both of them.” He has told Martin Braithwaite and Samuel Umtiti to find new clubs. With him and his teammates we have a very powerful midfield.

Frenkie de Jong showed why Manchester United are so determined to sign him by displaying his world-class quality during Barcelona's 6-0 win over Pumas UNAM ...

Running at breakneck speed with the ball at his feet, De Jong got his head up and played a delightful pass with the outside of his boot to Aubameyang. Meanwhile, you can watch De Jong score Barcelona’s sixth goal of the night here: Video: De Jong’s stunning run and pass vs Pumas Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang netted a fifth goal for the Catalan outfit shortly after the interval before De Jong added gloss to the scoreline in the 84th minute. But Xavi sent De Jong on, possibly for his final appearance at Camp Nou, at the start of the second half. However, De Jong is reportedly owed a fortune in deferred wages from his current employers and is likely to stay put at Camp Nou unless the issue is resolved.

The standoff against Mexico's Pumas UNAM saw Polish striker Robert Lewandowski score his first goal in the Barcelona colours in a friendly match at Camp Nou ...

Barca was leading the game 3-0 as early as ten minutes from the kick-off. The third goal was scored by forward Ousmane Dembele. The Pumas were a sorry sight and it seemed as if their defence was purely theoretical. Barca scored another goal before the break – thanks to Lewandowski assisting Pedri the second time.

However, as per the same report, one of the Barcelona players was on the receiving end of boos and whistles from the fans when he stepped onto the pitch during ...

To that end, the 31-year-old has been pushing Barça to terminate his contract which still has two years left. And fans in attendance cheered and clapped with joy at the sight of their favourite players. But he continues to drag his heels and remains a Blaugrana despite the club’s best efforts to move him on.

In an impressive second half cameo in the Joan Gamper Trophy against Pumas UNAM on Sunday evening, Frenkie de Jong showed why FC Barcelona would be foolish ...

He knows what I think and what the club wants and needs. "Until August 31, anything can happen. On the Catalans' recent tour of the US, he filled in at center back without complaints despite harmful reports that Barca had ordered him to leave the club and had even threatened to take him off the plane over the Atlantic.

After the departure of top players, the Spanish football club is back in the transfer business. Here's how the numbers are adding up.

The new signings showed plenty of promise in the preseason that ended Sunday with a 6-0 rout of Mexican club Pumas at the Joan Camper tournament at the Camp Nou ...

“We did what we have to do to make Barcelona a reference again.” “Spectacular,” said the front-page headline of the Sport newspaper, on top of a Lewandowski photo. After a trophyless season in which it didn’t have Lionel Messi for the first time in nearly two decades, the club went to the market and quickly became the top offseason spender in Europe. Barcelona recently sold 25% of its Spanish league television rights for the next 25 years for nearly 670 million euros ($682.1 million), and sold a 25% stake of its production hub for 100 million euros ($101.8 million). On Sunday, it played its first game at the Camp Nou since it was renamed following a sponsorship and naming rights deal with Spotify. The new signings showed plenty of promise in the preseason that ended Sunday with a 6-0 rout of Mexican club Pumas at the Joan Camper tournament at the Camp Nou. A crowd of more than 83,000 saw the team’s top signing, Robert Lewandowski, score his first goal for the Catalan club and connect well with young playmaker Pedri González. They also saw new defender Jules Koundé make his debut, and new forward Raphinha and returning forward Ousmane Dembélé play well again.

Barcelona have told the Manchester United and Chelsea target that they want him to revert a previous contract.

Bazunu started for Ralph Hasenhuttl’s side in their 4-1 defeat against Spurs on Saturday, with McCarthy left on the bench. He has joined City as a youth scout for the northern area. The other reason for players applying water to their boots — and some do it regularly — is to feel mentally engaged. That could be perceived to reinforce comments by Evgeniy Levchenko — chairman of the Dutch players’ union — that De Jong might be a victim of extortion, a notion current Barcelona president Joan Laporta denies. A sports psychologist says: “Lots of players do it. They like the close-touch feel between foot and boot, believing it enhances performance. Barber represented Brighton throughout the process, with owner-chairman Tony Bloom on a family holiday in Australia. Cucurella wasn’t the only transfer deal rooted in Boehly’s dinner invite last month. Though there’s no logical “performance” advantage to wetting a boot, it does help if there’s some pain or discomfort, sometimes caused by over-heating. Other players were seen doing similar at different games in England. New boots also mould better when damp, and there were a wide variety of fresh styles on show this weekend, with green and yellow a popular theme for the new season. The letter sent to De Jong last month is thought to inform the Dutchman that Barcelona think they are in a position to initiate criminal proceedings to establish what happened in relation to the signing of his contract and ascertain where responsibility resides for the supposed wrongdoing.

Braithwaite is reportedly refusing to leave Barcelona unless he is fully compensated for the final two years of his contract.

But Braithwaite is believed to have rejected this offer and demanded to be paid his full salary for the remainder of his deal. But reports in Spain claim Braithwaite is refusing to give in to the club's demands and leave this summer unless he is paid what he is owed. Denmark international Braithwaite is reportedly refusing to leave Barcelona unless he is fully compensated for the final two of years his contract.

Frenkie de Jong is refusing to lower his salary at FC Barcelona, despite the club now wanting him to stay.

He knows what I think and what the club wants and needs. As part of an agreement struck on the watch of Laporta's predecessor Josep Bartomeu, De Jong is set to earn €18mn ($18.4mn) this season and €88.58mn ($90.2mn) over the last four years of his contract. Yet due to United's lack of football in the mentioned elite European club competition, and a desire to succeed in Xavi Hernandez's promising sporting project at Camp Nou, De Jong has insisted on staying put at his current club.

A crowd of more than 83,000 saw the team's top signing, Robert Lewandowski, score his first goal for the Catalan club and connect well with young playmaker ...

“We did what we have to do to make Barcelona a reference again.” “Spectacular,” said the front-page headline of the Sport newspaper, on top of a Lewandowski photo. After a trophyless season in which it didn’t have Lionel Messi for the first time in nearly two decades, the club went to the market and quickly became the top offseason spender in Europe. Barcelona recently sold 25% of its Spanish league television rights for the next 25 years for nearly 670 million euros ($682.1 million), and sold a 25% stake of its production hub for 100 million euros ($101.8 million). On Sunday, it played its first game at the Camp Nou since it was renamed following a sponsorship and naming rights deal with Spotify. The new signings showed plenty of promise in the preseason that ended Sunday with a 6-0 rout of Mexican club Pumas at the Joan Camper tournament at the Camp Nou. A crowd of more than 83,000 saw the team’s top signing, Robert Lewandowski, score his first goal for the Catalan club and connect well with young playmaker Pedri González. They also saw new defender Jules Koundé make his debut, and new forward Raphinha and returning forward Ousmane Dembélé play well again.

PETE JENSON IN SPAIN: Barcelona were so desperate to satisfy LaLiga's financial rules that they bought their own TV rights future revenue from themselves, ...

There are various ways in which the club plan to find the missing money. The club declared the total of €667m (£562m) in their paperwork sent to LaLiga last week. They could also sell more of the club's assets. The club sold 25 per cent of future TV rights but there was a difference of opinion when it came to declaring how much money they had raised from it. And president Joan Laporta said: 'There will be no problem in registering all the players we have signed. as giants look for ways to register their summer signings

De Jong arrived at Barcelona in the summer of 2019 after a €86 million deal was agreed with AFC Ajax earlier in January that year. The midfielder initially ...

De Jong arrived at Barcelona in the summer of 2019 after a €86 million deal was agreed with AFC Ajax earlier in January that year. But they have not been successful in their endeavours, forcing them into taking drastic actions. As per the terms of the new deal, de Jong agreed to reduce his salary for the 2020/21 and 2021/22 seasons by around €18 million, which would be paid to him across the remaining four years of his contract.

Barcelona star Frenkie de Jong is caught in the middle of one of the strangest transfer sagas of all time – with Chelsea and Manchester United still wanting ...

Would it be a stretch to see De Jong at City at the end of all of this? An encyclopedia of football shirts and boots knowledge – both past and present – Mark has also been to the FA Cup and League Cup finals for FFT and has written pieces for the mag ranging on subjects from Bobby Robson's season at Barcelona to Robinho's career. Should the situation between De Jong and Barcelona be resolved swiftly, however, perhaps Man City could still have another part to play. The Blues seem to have done most of their summer business in this way, pouncing in the chance to sign the likes of Marc Cucurella from under Manchester City's noses, looking at Raphinha or Dembele depending on who Barça signed (they weren't expecting both) and even enquiring about the likes of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Gabriel Jesus to test the waters. Now, they want to cancel his existing contract and return to the deal he was on previously. Question marks were raised when the Blaugrana legend appeared to favour stronger, more powerful midfielders early his tenure and when De Jong was substituted against Rayo Vallecano in April, he reacted by storming down the tunnel rather than taking his place on the bench.

Manchester United target Frenkie de Jong has been threatened by FC Barcelona with legal action amid his existing contract issues with the club.

In their letter to Frenkie De Jong last month, Barcelona are said to have informed the Dutchman that the club are in a position to initiate criminal proceedings against the player as he was involved in a supposed wrongdoing with a proven corrupt set of people. However, De Jong is not ready to accept the terms as he first intends to get the money owed to him by the club since he joined the club. Barcelona have told Frenkie de Jong that they want to declare his existing contract as “invalid” and return back to the old deal that he was on before.

Barcelona has been accused of falsely inflating their accounts using their own money in order to register their new players; The Catalans have been unable ...

Barcelona then loaned €150m of their own money to Logskley Investments, who in turn paid that back to Barcelona as part of the TV rights deal, thus falsely inflating the value of the deal. According to Football Espana, Barcelona has now been accused of falsely inflating their accounts using their own money as the US company reported an outlay of €517m. - Barcelona has been accused of falsely inflating their accounts using their own money in order to register their new players

MADRID (AP) — Barcelona surprised many in the offseason by making several high-profile signings despite enduring a difficult situation financially.

“We did what we have to do to make Barcelona a reference again.” “Spectacular,” said the front-page headline of the Sport newspaper, on top of a Lewandowski photo. After a trophyless season in which it didn’t have Lionel Messi for the first time in nearly two decades, the club went to the market and quickly became the top offseason spender in Europe. Barcelona recently sold 25% of its Spanish league television rights for the next 25 years for nearly 670 million euros ($682.1 million), and sold a 25% stake of its production hub for 100 million euros ($101.8 million). On Sunday, it played its first game at the Camp Nou since it was renamed following a sponsorship and naming rights deal with Spotify. The new signings showed plenty of promise in the preseason that ended Sunday with a 6-0 rout of Mexican club Pumas at the Joan Camper tournament at the Camp Nou. A crowd of more than 83,000 saw the team’s top signing, Robert Lewandowski, score his first goal for the Catalan club and connect well with young playmaker Pedri González. They also saw new defender Jules Koundé make his debut, and new forward Raphinha and returning forward Ousmane Dembélé play well again.

But it's being reported by the Daily Mail that Barca are citing 'evidence of criminality' as a reason to invalidate the Dutchman's mega-deal. The De Jong saga.

Whats more, the report even suggests that the cub have told De Jong should he refuse a pay-cut and remain at the club, he can expect to be confined to the bench or playing at centre-back. This is just the latest in a series of twists and turns that have involved Barca and De Jong this summer. Barcelona have reportedly told Frenkie de Jong that they want to rip up his existing contract and revert back to the previous terms he signed in 2019.

The latest chapter of the saga involving the Dutch midfielder and Barcelona takes a drastic turn.

Both sides have publicly stated a desire for de Jong to remain with Barcelona this season. After signing a two-year contract extension in Oct. 2020, the Dutch midfielder is reportedly owed €18 million ($18.4 million) after part of his salary from the 2020-21 and 2021-22 pandemic seasons was deferred. Mexico’s Pumas UNAM that the club “will be able to register all players.”

Latest bid to declare Frenkie De Jong's contract 'illegal' is the height of ridiculousness.

And yet you can’t escape the feeling that they’ll get away with it, because La Liga isn’t actually going to let them go out of business and take most of the league with it. A lot of that latter effort has concerned getting De Jong completely off the books, which they haven’t been able to do and De Jong doesn’t want. However, that might not be enough for La Liga to sanction the registering of their new signings, and they also need to get their wage bill down. As we wrote before, De Jong deferred his salary during the pandemic to the last two years left on his contract at the time, and two more years that were tacked onto the end of it to spread those payments out. If you had been asleep the past year and a half to two years (and we’re all jealous if you were), this past summer probably looked pretty normal in the soccer world. But Barca doesn’t. And what they’re doing to try and register them is bordering on the absurd or something out of a satirical film.

A La Liga audit said Barça do not have enough money to cover the purchase of the players they have brought in, including striker Robert Lewandowski.

That enabled the overall accounting value of the deal to be larger now, announcing two deals, the first for 10% of the club’s La Liga TV rights over 25 years, the second for a further 15%. In total, including a new sponsorship deal with Spotify, the departure of players and increased revenue, Barcelona said that they had brought in more than €850m as they seek to improve their squad and fix a financial crisis. Barcelona had accounted for benefits of €667m (£562m) from the sale of two packets of future television rights and had hoped that would help enable them to comply with La Liga’s financial fair play rules.

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Robert Lewandowski showed Barcelona fans what they will be expecting this season after the 33-year-old put up a masterclass performance in their friendly victory against Pumas UNAM. - Barcelona thrashed their opponents 6-0 in their final annual pre-season game played in front of their home supporters at the Camp Nou - Polish striker Robert Lewandowski scored his first goal for Barcelona in the friendly match against Mexico's Pumas UNAM on Sunday, August 7

Barcelona's financial woes have created one of the strangest contract demands in recent memory. The Spanish football club asked midfielder Frenkie de Jong ...

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La Liga has blocked Barcelona from registering new players before season. England defender Conor Coady has joined Everton from Wolverhampton Wanderers.

West Brom manager Steve Bruce admitted he was torn between applauding Sarr’s wonder goal and criticising Button. “Like everybody in the ground, did I want to applaud it or look at my goalkeeper, thinking ‘where are you?!”’ said Bruce. “It’s a wonderful piece of skill by a very good player. But I’d have taken it.” “The first conversation I had with the manager was a little bit surreal. “I’ve grown up around the city… I’m someone who was desperate to come here. I’m over the moon to join.

The new signings showed plenty of promise in the preseason that ended Sunday with a 6-0 rout of Mexican club Pumas at the Joan Gamper tournament at the Camp Nou ...

“We did what we have to do to make Barcelona a reference again.” Lewandowski arrived from Bayern Munich in a deal worth nearly 50 million euros ($50.9 million), while Raphinha came from Leeds United for nearly 60 million euros ($61.1 million) and Koundé from Sevilla for nearly 50 million euros ($50.9 million). The team’s offense also has talented youngster Ansu Fati, Dutch international Memphis Depay, Danish international Martin Braithwaite and Spanish international Ferran Torres. In the midfield, it still has the likes of Gavi Páez and Pedri, who scored both of his goals against Pumas off assists by Lewandowski. Barcelona recently sold 25% of its Spanish league television rights for the next 25 years for nearly 670 million euros ($682.1 million), and sold a 25% stake of its production hub for 100 million euros ($101.8 million). On Sunday, it played its first game at the Camp Nou since it was renamed following a sponsorship and naming rights deal with Spotify. A crowd of more than 83,000 saw the team’s top signing, Robert Lewandowski, score his first goal for the Catalan club and connect well with young playmaker Pedri González. They also saw new defender Jules Koundé debut, and new forward Raphinha and returning forward Ousmane Dembélé play well again. “There is no time to wait in soccer, there is no transition season,” Laporta told Spanish media.

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It’s believed that Fofana is pushing for a move away from the Foxes, even though coach Brendan Rodgers has insisted that he’s not for sale. Chelsea striker Timo Werner is on the cusp of returning to RB Leipzig, after arriving in Germany for his medical. Werner had an underwhelming spell at the Blues, but is set to return to the club where he really made his name in world football. De Jong signed a two-year contract extension with the club on October 20, 2020, which kept him at the club for longer but reduced his salary in the short-term. Frenkie de Jong has been linked with two of the biggest clubs in England, with a transfer shaping up as a potential solution to their money drama. De Jong has been heavily linked with a transfer to Manchester United, although Chelsea recently emerged as a potential suitor for his services.

While Barcelona talk of alleged criminality in his 2020 contract extension, it has left de Jong and his entourage befuddled as to how the deal passed through ...

Barcelona have been trying to get de Jong to lower his salary or offload him all summer. It is claimed that the Dutchman’s camp believes that they more than played their part in helping the club, settling for wages as less as €3 million in 2020/21 and €6 million in 2021/22, which they consider is well below the level of the midfielder and now want Barça to hold up their end of the deal. It was claimed that the Catalans were considering legal action regarding the matter and had warned de Jong and his camp that they might get implicated even though the club held the previous board, led by ex-president Josep Maria Bartomeu, responsible.