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After a summer tour around the globe, Barcelona return home for their final preseason test of 2022 as the Catalan giants gear up for the coming La Liga ...

Today's match will be about the performances on the field, but there is much work to be done off it if Barcelona are to take full advantage of their summer overhaul. 4th min: GOAL, BARCELONA! It's a fast start for the hosts as Robert Lewandowski gets Barcelona on the board first with a spectacular opener. It figures to be a busy day for the Pumas shot-stopper between the sticks. 55 mins to kick: The Barcelona lineup is in. 24th min: Chance, Barcelona! Every Barcelona attack seems to produce a great opportunity on goal, and this time only fate keeps the ball from finding the back of the net. It was total and complete domination from Barcelona in the first half, dominating possession and carving the Pumas defense to shreds. Even when Barcelona took their foot off the gas and sat back, Pumas had to fight hard just to string a few passes together. 49th min: GOAL, BARCELONA! After a furious start to the first half, the hosts have begun the same in the second with reinforcements on the pitch. It rolled to Memphis on the end line, but the Pumas goalkeeper is there to stop the chance. 46th min: The second half is under way, with a host of changes for the home side. The ugliest goal yet in a litany of defensive nightmares from the visitors at the Camp Nou. Robert Lewandowski scored his first Camp Nou goal as a Barcelona player and assisted both ends of Pedri's first-half brace in the win.

The Catalans have recently released their squad for this upcoming encounter, which features big names such as new signing Robert Lewandowski and Ousmane Dembele ...

Even Raphinha has been handed a start, while the likes of Andreas Christensen and Franck Kessie are both starting on the bench. Like Umtiti, Braithwaite is expected to depart Camp Nou before the end of the month, although both are finding it difficult to attract suitors. Meanwhile, Braithwaite has fallen behind in the pecking order, especially after the addition of Lewandowski. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Memphis Depay are also in the team, with both the attackers starting on the bench against PUMAS.

Almost three months since the last season ended and Frenkie de Jong's future still continues to dominate the headlines. The Barcelona midfielder has found ...

Barcelona had already agreed to sell De Jong to Manchester United in a deal worth €85 million, but the move fell through. The Barcelona midfielder has found himself at the centre of transfer speculation since May, with Manchester United mainly pushing for his signing. Chelsea and Barcelona have crossed paths on numerous occasions this summer, rivalling each other for several transfer targets.

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.

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.

Dani Alves was honoured by Barcelona ahead of the Joan Gamper Trophy match against Pumas UNAM.

And that has been left out at the club." Everything that happens on the field is a reflection of what happens outside. I am eternally grateful to Xavi and the president for bringing me back. "As a cule, I would like Barcelona to do things differently. Barcelona don’t care about the people who made history for the club. "Since I arrived, I made it very clear that I wasn’t any more a 20-year-old guy and that I wanted things to be done head-on, without hiding things.

Frenkie de Jong could be on his way to Stamford Bridge this season, with Chelsea offering a defender as their summer of major spending continues.

There is still time in the window but he needed three or four weeks more to work with them,” Neville told Sky Sports. But the reality is, he‘s seen what those players are capable of today. “Every coach comes in thinking they can do better than the last coach with the players at his disposal as they believe they are a better coach and that is probably the case with this. United made a €9 million ($13 million AUD) bid for the former West Ham striker, who is also linked with a move to Italian giants Juventus. Manchester United have also reportedly had a bid rejected for 33-year-old Marko Arnautovic, as the club look to bring in their first new striker under Erik ten Hag. De Jong has been heavily linked with a transfer from Barcelona to Old Trafford for weeks, although it’s believed that he doesn’t want to join the Red Devils.

Frenkie de Jong appears likely to remain at Barcelona for this season, if the comments from club pre...

"We have two strikers, maybe a third one, with Marcus Rashford as well. Arnautovic was a quality player, but he's 33 playing in Italy." I'm not going to stick the boot in.

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.

Robert Lewandowski opened his account for Barcelona and Pedri scored twice in a resounding 6-0 win against Pumas UNAM in the Joan Gamper Trophy at Camp Nou ...

Barca made seven changes at the break and two of the substitutes combined in the 49th minute to make it five. Aubameyang then hit the bar and saw another chance deflected over before De Jong found the net late. Lewandowski returned the favour soon after and then, via a brilliant flick, sent Pedri through for his second goal in the 20th minute.

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.

When Frank Kessie's contract with Milan ended last month, he joined Xavi Hernandez's Barcelona. Now, the Ivorian midfielder has been asked to select the ...

However, the club's financial woes forced him to make his historic transfer to Paris Saint-Germain. Under Stefano Pioli, the Ivory Coast captain played in a number of roles, including as an offensive midfielder for portions of the season. The Catalans secured his signing on a free transfer after the Ivorian refused to renew his contract.

Lewandowski scores on Camp Nou bow as Barca rout Mexican side Pumas 6-0 to win Joan Gamer Trophy.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Frenkie de Jong completed the rout in the second half. Pedri added the second and fourth goals in the fifth and 19th minutes, sandwiching a strike from Ousmane Dembele. 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.

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.

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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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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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Messi has been with Barcelona ever since he joined the La Masia Academy as a teenager. He left Barcelona last year when the club were unable to afford to renew his contract. - Barcelona are reportedly in talks with Lionel Messi's representatives to bring the superstar back to Camp Nou

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.

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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.