Pedri admits he "found it hard to believe" that Lionel Messi was leaving Barcelona when news of a stunning exit broke in the ...

Barcelona midfielder Pedri has said he was shocked to learn that Lionel Messi had left Barcelona. Messi was a product of the ...

Orlando City and Inter Miami meet in the Florida Derby without Lionel Messi, who is sidelined due to injury, but with both ...

Barcelona had been planning to unveil Messi, re-signed and resealed, later this month. It had added one of his closest friends, Sergio Agüero, to its squad, apparently at his insistence, this summer.

That’s a lot for Barcelona to do at speed and Messi clearly wanted to make a swift decision about his future. Barcelona would have struggled to close big sales like that in the near future, as ...

To secure extra time to meet city council approval, Barcelona asked UEFA for the club’s first Champions League fixture of the ...

Family struggles aside, Messi had good reason to feel he was in the best possible place to fulfil his dreams of becoming a football superstar. His rise through the Barcelona youth ranks was one of ...

Barcelona midfielder Sergi Roberto said last week the squad would “welcome Messi back with open arms”, and their economic vice-president Eduard Romeu said last September it would now be ...

Why do they have to pay Messi when he isn’t their player? This is money Messi is owed as part of the salary of his last contract with Barcelona. The issue is an agreement reached during that ...

Barcelona fans consider Messi to be their own. The Argentinian first moved into the club’s youth academy when he was 13 and he, more than anyone, symbolises Barca’s golden era and the success ...

Laporta said clearly on Friday that even with Messi’s salary cut, Barcelona’s wages would be at 110 per cent of the club revenues. Best practice — and La Liga rules — demand a ratio of 70 ...