Welcome to Inside Barcelona, a new weekly series of articles to follow throughout the 2025-26 La Liga season. Every week, we will bring you our latest information and analysis on the biggest talking points, cutting through the noisy world of all things Barca with reporting you can trust. This week, our writer Dermot Corrigan explores…
The CEO of the Saudi Pro League has played down any suggestion of his competition following in the footsteps of Spain’s La Liga by taking a regular-season match overseas. Omar Mugharbel said this week’s Saudi Super Cup in Hong Kong was his country’s means of exposing its Pro League (SPL) to global audiences, along with…
Among the many nice stories surrounding Real Oviedo’s return to the Spanish top flight after 24 years away is the reunion between club hero Santi Cazorla and new signing Salomon Rondon. Before last weekend’s season start Rondon himself had been away from La Liga for 13 years, and his last goal in the competition was…
You should have had a release clause, Alexander! Imagine the strife and anger that could have been avoided had Isak’s agent insisted on inserting a figure of, say, £120million into the six-year contract his client signed when joining Newcastle United in August 2022. Then again — and please do not take this to be actual…
The 2025-26 season has already begun, but it is not yet clear where Barcelona are going to play their home matches. Barca have not played at their Camp Nou ground since starting a €1.5billion (£1.3bn; $1.8bn) refurbishment project in June 2023, hosting games at the Estadi Olimpic Lluis Companys across the city while works progress….
Alex Moreno is set to complete a move to Girona from Aston Villa. The left-back will undergo his medical tomorrow ahead of signing a two-year contract. The Athletic revealed in July that Girona had made an approach for Moreno, after he was left out of Villa’s pre-season tour to the United States, with the club…
Real Madrid are playing their opening match of the La Liga season on Tuesday despite the club having asked multiple times to postpone their first game of the season after playing the FIFA Club World Cup earlier this summer. The team coached by Xabi Alonso will play their first match against Osasuna while the other…
Real Madrid’s La Liga opener against Osasuna later today marks the latest key moment in the club’s exciting restart with Xabi Alonso as their new manager. Last season was a deeply discouraging one for everyone at the Bernabeu, with no major trophies won and regular disappointments leading to Carlo Ancelotti’s exit as coach. In response,…
FC Barcelona are set to visit Son Moix to face RCD Mallorca in their first match of the 2025-26 La Liga season. After winning the league last year, expectations are sky-high for the defending champions. But when the lineups were announced, Robert Lewandowski’s absence raised immediate questions among fans. The Blaugrana begin their second season…
Javier Tebas, president of La Liga, talks during Day 1 of Soccerex Europe Convention at Tagus Park on September 5, 2019 in Lisbon, Portugal. Getty Images La Liga president Javier Tebas is getting closer than ever to his long-held wish of staging a regular season match on American soil after the Royal Spanish Football Federation…