Barcelona News

Barcelona manager Tito Vilanova is hoping the target of matching Real Madrid 's league record 100 points will keep his players motivated when the host Valladolid on Sunday.

Defender Javier Mascherano and goalkeeper Victor Valdes have recovered from injury and are available for Barcelona's remaining three games of the season.

The transfer window may be shut but gossip never sleeps. Here are the latest rumours from the papers and beyond.

Coach Tito Vilanova, president Sandro Rosell and sporting director Andoni Zubizarreta have agreed to chase Kop's Nou Camp old boy Liverpool star Pepe Reina is top of Barcelona's wish-list as the Spanish giants try to sign THREE new goalkeepers.

Spurs are said to be leading the chase for RNK Split striker Ante Rebic. The 19-year-old Croatian under-21 international is also being tracked by Italian side Parma and is valued at around 5 million.

Barcelona fans are evidently not happy with the signing of Alex Song from Arsenal last summer and would prefer a Chelsea midfielder instead.

A poster of German Chancellor Angela Merkel dressed in a Nazi uniform was seen burning in front of the Greek Parliament last year.

French full-back Eric Abidal is due to have a meeting with Barcelona president Sandro Rosell to discuss his future with the Catalans, club spokesman Toni Freixa said Wednesday.

Sometimes football supporters do not know what they have got until it has gone. This is especially case with Valencia, whose fans are a particularly grumpy lot.

Goal runs through the finest footballers in the Spanish top flight in 2012-13 and picks out the top 11 players over the course of the campaign Barcelona were crowned champions of La Liga at the weekend as Real Madrid could only draw at Espanyol, while Atletico lost at home to the Catalan club on Sunday but have already confirmed Champions League ... (more)

As well as the Premier League pair, superstar names Kaka and Ronaldinho also miss out, though the form of both means their particular snubs are unsurprising.

Could we expect to enjoy the same degree of success we had come to expect during the previous few years? certainly hit the ground running and for the first part of the season at least gave his critics little to moan about.

Barcelona have admitted that they will consider selling Victor Valdes at the end of the season after declaring that they will find a solution if he still insists upon a change in the summer.

Uncertainty surrounds Chelsea's purported goal-keeping future... The name Thibaut Nicolas Marc Courtois, or Thibaut Courtois for short, makes and divides opinions in equal measure here at the Bridge, just as, say, Kevin de Bruyne.

London, May 13: Shakira, who gave birth to her first son Milan in January, has admitted that giving birth was far less glamorous than she had previously imagined.

Reports today have sprung the sensational transfer rumour that Manchester United are lining up a 'shock bid' for Barcelona's Cesc Fabregas.

From left: Gerard PiquA©, Sergio Busquets, Cesc FA bregas, Jordi Alba and Marc Bartra celebrate Barcelona's title success.

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Reports in Spain are suggesting that Liverpool have completed the signing of promising Barcelona star Sergi Canos.

If you believe everything you read, see or hear in the various forms of the media then there is, apparently, an immediate need to dispense with the heartbeat of this current Barcelona side.