Javier Mascherano is set to leave Liverpool after his advisers agreed on personal terms with Barcelona to line up a move in January or the summer, according to a report.
The Argentinian midfielder is desperate to complete a switch to Camp Nou and now knows he can expect to earn around €120,000-a-week should he join the European champions, the Sunday Express states. Click to continue reading...

Southern California fans, Barcaloco is proud to announce the first FC Barcelona match viewing party will be held at Busby's East in Los Angeles on November 29th for FC Barcelona vs Real Madrid aka. El Clásico.

Busby's is located at 5364 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90036. Busby's will be the official Sports Bar for the soon to be announced Barcaloco Fan Club and will be hosting all televised FC Barcelona matches.

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Barcelona are reportedly preparing a bid for Liverpool midfielder Javier Mascherano, who the Merseyside club are preparing to offload during the winter transfer window according to Spanish publication El Mundo Deportivo.
The Argentine central midfielder, who holds an Italian passport, was a summer target for the Blaugrana and had showed signs of a desire to make the switch before Reds boss Rafael Benitez insisted he would not be leaving. Click to continue reading...

Catalan giants try to annoy Gunners in a whole new way.

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Barcelona's copycat chase of two of Arsenal's Under 18 starlets has been stepped up with Barça represenatives making formal offers for both Benik Afobe and Chukwuemeka Aneke to visit their Catalan base for talks.

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I Would Not Sign Any Barcelona Players For Real Madrid Cristiano Ronaldo
Barca may have several major stars, but none of them could play for Los Blancos, according to 'CR9′.

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El Barça responde a las críticas recibidas durante la semana que intentaban compararlo con el Real Madrid, llegando a decir que si se había terminado un ciclo, con una contundente victoria ante el Zaragoza, que se llevo 6 goles del Camp Nou. Los blancos empataron contundentemente en Gijón. Click to continue reading...

Barcelona will re-ignite their interest in Liverpool midfielder Javier Mascherano this summer, as speculation over the Argentine's future continues to grow.
The Blaugrana were heavily linked with Mascherano during the close season, and it is reported that preliminary talks began over a possible move to the Camp Nou. Click to continue reading...

Supongo que quizá si habláramos de una derrota del Barcelona ante el Real Madrid, el Sevilla o algún otro equipo, digamos, grande, no nos sorprenderíamos pese a lo bien que vienen jugando los blaugranas. Pero no; esta vez no fue así. El equipo de Catalunya perdió este martes en partido correspondiente a la Champions League con el Rubin Kazan de la Liga Rusa, y con esto perdió su chance de clasificarse esta fecha a octavos.

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Barcelona v Rubin Kazan
Tuesday 20 October 2009, Camp Nou
UEFA Champions League
Kick-Off: 19:45 UK (20:45 CET)

Barcelona will be expected to take three points from this easy Champions League home game - while Valencia's performance would have given other teams in Spain hope that Barcelona can be beaten, Rubin Kazan aren't in the same class as Valencia and home advantage should nullify any hopes they might have had of causing an upset.

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Robinho to join the Catalan giants?

Robinho has found himself in the middle of yet more speculation about his future this week. The latest rumours have him heading to Barcelona, which was previously talked about at the end of the summer.

The deal that is being discussed would be a £80 million swap which includes cash and players.

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The Blaugrana beat a brave Almeria side 1-0 win at the Camp Nou on Saturday evening to return to the top of the Spanish La Liga pending Real Madrid's meeting with Sevilla later today. FC Barcelona have now won their first six La Liga matches of the young season. Saturday's win came courtesy of an effort [. Click to continue reading...

This is another segment I will do every weekend after a Champions League round. I will name the best starting line-up from this week's games.

Goalkeeper: Oleksandr Shovkovskiy (Dynamo Kiev)

Dynamo Kiev's keeper didn't get much help from his teammates but he single-handedly stopped Barca from running rampant on the score sheet.

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They are at it again...Part 12th!

Xavi Hernandez has declared his desire to team up with international team-mate Cesc Fabregas at Barcelona.

The pair helped steer Spain to Euro 2008 glory and Xavi wants to rekindle their midfield partnership at Camp Nou.

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Liverpool boss Rafa Benitez has urged the club's owners to make funds available in order to secure the transfer of David Villa from Spanish Primera Division side Valencia.
Villa was courted by both Barcelona and Real Madrid during the summer but while the Blaugrana eventually opted to sign Zlatan Ibrahimovic from Inter Milan, Los Blancos signed Karim Benzema from Lyon. Click to continue reading...

Audaces fortuna iuvat

In attesa di vedere la Juventus questa sera nel difficile macht contro il Genoa a Marassi, l'Inter è tornata prima in classifica.

La squadra di Mourinho rimane il complesso più forte del campionato italiano.

Ma ci si può anche spingere oltre: i nerazzurri si sono rinforzati parecchio anche in chiave champions.

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Although it is early, the league is already tight up top and no one will catch Real Madrid and Barcelona. Both sides were once again convincing as the Catalans gave a clinic in Santander, while the Merengues deep sixed the Yellow Submarine in Castellón.

Lionel Messi earned a brace while Cristiano Ronaldo led the pace of his team and neither were able to be stopped.

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(video gol e highlights di Racing Santander-Barcellona)
Ancora Ibra-Messi. Ancora spettacolo e gol e il Barcellona conferma la leadership, in attesa di vedere cosa combinerà il Real Madrid impegnato nell'insidiosa trasferta contro il Villareal di Giuseppe Rossi. Click to continue reading...

Exhibición blaugrana en El Sardinero. El Barça golea 1-4 al Racing de Santander con un juego brillante, exquisito, extraordinario. Este equipo pasó como un rodillo por encima del equipo cántabro.
Ibrahimovic (no se poner el acento en la "c"), Messi (por partida doble) y Piqué (Piquenbauer) fueron los autores de los goles. Click to continue reading...

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Prior to today's match there were talks that both Lionel Messi and Gerard Pique were going to be rested against Santander. Messi would receive rest because of a busy week ahead and Pique for a knock he suffered over the weekend against Athletico Madrid. But when the starting lineups were announced both players appeared.

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Eto'o scatenato e, in questo caso, non parliamo di calcio giocato e di Serie A. Il camerunense mette da parte i sentimenti, da sempre avuti nei confronti del club blaugrana amato per cinque lunghi anni (2004-2009, 108 i gol realizzati), e muove guerra al Barcellona di Laporta per essere stato "scaricato" senza troppi patemi d'animo. Click to continue reading...

Barcelona's win against Atletico may have been celebrated by the fans but Cruyff thinks the Blaugrana must tighten things up at... Click to continue reading...

First off, a happy Eid to all who celebrate it, and particularly to Barca's muslim players, Keita, Yaya and Abidal! Right now we're running late and you'll have to excuse us the match report for Barca-Atletico; but we've rounded up all the post-match tidbits:
- This was the fiftieth Liga match for Gerard Pique (having played 27 with Barca, 23 with Zaragoza) and he played hella great. Click to continue reading...

So hey, you catch Barca, man? Shit hasn't changed, I know -- it's great. (Enough to raise a few words up out me, which hopefully precedes a fit of non-dormancy here in the future.)
Sure, they always rip Baby Madrid to shreds at the Camp Nou, and there really couldn't have been a worse game for Abel Resino to debut a raw, inchoate keeper in. Click to continue reading...

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FC Barcelona today secured the best player in the world until 2016 when Lionel Messi signed a two year contract extension. The new deal will see that the Argentine international play what will likely be his most productive years at the Nou Camp.

Messi was under contract with the blaugrana until 2014 with a large 150 million euro buyout clause on his contract.

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Big news on the official Barcelona website today is that Leo Messi has signed a new, improved contract with the Blaugrana. They even have a photo of him putting pen to paper (which I've stolen and embedded to your left) so it must be true. Young Leo (he's still only 22) already had a contract with [. Click to continue reading...

Partitella infrasettimanale

Una gara soft tra Inter e Barcelona.

Beppe Servegnini a Radio Montecarlo ha detto "un'ora Barcellona, mezz'ora Inter". Probabilmente nel computo dei trenta minuti nerazzurri, il columnist del "corriere della sera" comprendeva anche il quarto d'ora di riposo tra primo e secondo tempo.

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There was much build up around the Inter vs Barcelona match up, aka. Eto'o vs Ibrahimovic, but in the end the two teams battled to a draw at the San Siro. For FC Barcelona the emotions were mixed heading back to the Camp Nou as the team left Milan unscathed but should have walked away with a win having many opportunities on goal.

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Lionel Messi is ready to sign a seven year contract extension at FC Barcelona making him not only the top paid in Europe but keeping with the blaugrana for years to come.

Barcelona president Joan Laporta has been in negotiations with Lionel's father and agent Jorge and according to Laporta an agreement is "now close to being concluded.

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The European calendar resumes after an exciting break featuring World Cup qualifiers all over the world. Week 2 of La Liga witnessed the two powers playing on Saturday to give them an extra days rest before their midweek Champions League matches. Barcelona defeated Getafe on the road 2-0 with goals by Zlatan Ibrahimovic and 2nd half sub Lionel Messi. Click to continue reading...

Is anyone surprised?!

It appears Barcelona will renew their efforts to sign Javier Mascherano and Cesc Fabregas at some stage in the future, after their director of football Txiki Begiristain was quoted by Sport as saying that the pursuit of the two midfielders is "something the club has left for later".

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Two weeks into this early season and the top dogs in Spain are looking the part. Barcelona has started their defence of their crown with two solid performances; a much brighter start than last year when they lost and tied their first two games. The Blaugrana's back line has impressed me and their mega-signing Dmytro Chigrynskiy has added some much needed stability in front of Victor Valdes.

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A golpe de vara me he pasado el fin de semana, radio en oreja escuchando la jornada futbolística de esta segunda jornada liguera. Barça, Valéncia y Madrid han empezado fuertes y decididos a ser los máximos candidatos al título.
Los blaugranas lograron el triunfo en la siempre complicada casa del Getafe por 0 a 2, merced a los tantos de Ibra (y ya van dos) y Messi. Click to continue reading...

It's a feature of human nature that we are quick, in the heat of the moment, to see our point of view over another's. However, the mature person is able to see, after some introspection, the extent to which he is culpable.

Professional athletes often lack this maturity.

The lore of Emmanuel Adebayor includes tales of playing football barefoot on dirt fields as a youth in his homeland of Togo.

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FC Barcelona arrived in Madrid just hours before their match on Saturday against Getafe. With Getafe coming off a strong performance in week one manager Pep Guardiola was aware that his team must not show up unprepared.

The first half started off slow for the blaugrana as the team struggled on offense with Lionel Messi, Thierry Henry, Andres Iniesta and Dani Alves all starting on the bench.

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On Saturday FC Barcelona travel to Madrid to take on Getafe, who had a convincing 1-4 victory over Racing Santander in first week action. Getafe, under new manager Michel, look to improve on a dismal 2008/2009 season which saw them barely escape relegation. For FC Barcelona they cannot take Michel's team lightly.

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