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Sunday’s 1-0 win lifts Bilbao, who are unbeaten in their new San Mames Stadium, up to fourth in the league and were rewarded for their efforts, reports Xinhua. Coming into the game on the back of their midweek defeat, in the Champions League to Dutch club Ajax, Barca played well in the first half but were unable to break down an excellent Athletic defense. Things changed drastically after the break and Barca were quite simply unable to live with Bilbao’s physical superiority and the Basque side got their reward after 70 minutes when Iker Muniain scored from a Markel Susaeta cross to provoke what will almost be a minor crisis in Barcelona....

The Catalan giants are looking to revamp the squad with fresh faces and the board might be willing to offload some players to make way for new signings. In case you didn’t know… Barcelona suffered another shock exit in the Champions League against Liverpool in the semi-finals. Having already secured the La Liga title, the Spanish giants’ failure in the Champions League has raised a few question marks. Barcelona have failed to qualify for the finals of the Champions League since they last won it in 2015 against Juventus....

The Barcelona squad for the 2016-17 will kick off the season with the Juan Gamper Trophy match on Wednesday against Italian side Sampdoria, in which new players will participate, such as Samuel Umtiti, Lucas Digne, Andre Gomes and Denis Suarez, reports Efe. According to the Catalan club’s official website, Enrique said: “On paper, this is the best squad that I have had in my three years at Barca.” “If we find a player that will improve us, we will do it....

However, Skriniar has come out to squash the rumours and went ahead to rule out any possible move to Premier League champions Chelsea as well. He told Sky Sport Italia after his side’s win over Atalanta over the weekend: The Blaugrana have been monitoring the player for quite some time now but a move looks difficult at this stage with his agent Karol Csonto reiterating the player’s stance. Karol spoke about the situation in the beginning of the month by saying:...

Barcelona have been heavily linked with Guangzhou Evergrande’s Paulinho. But the Chinese club’s officials have said that they will not let their players leave midseason. The Chinese Super League club are the reigning champions and the 28-year-old Brazilian has scored 11 times in 25 appearances this season for them. Alli, meanwhile, scored 18 goals and picked up seven assists for Spurs last season meaning Barcelona will need to break the bank to persuade Spurs to let the Englishman leave....

Adama Traore, Ferran Torres and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang all arrived in Catalonia during the winter window in a mixture of loan, big money deals and free transfers. Torres’s move to the Camp Nou was heralded as the Catalan giants signing the future Spain No. 9 with former La Masia graduate Traore back where it all began at his boyhood club. Aubameyang was released from his Arsenal contract — following a high-profile falling out with manager Mikel Arteta — to join Barcelona as a free agent, but all three have joined Xavi’s revolution with a point to prove....

A last-four tie that pits Spain’s biggest two clubs together is a mouth-watering prospect, with the recent resurgence of both Modric and Madrid threatening Barca’s recent dominance of the cup. Barca are hunting a fifth consecutive Copa del Rey crown and with Madrid well off the pace in LaLiga - they are eight points behind the league leaders - this could be their best chance of adding to the silverware they won at last year’s Club World Cup....

Barcelona currently sit on top of Group G, having won all five of their previous fixtures. Juventus are currently second, 3 points off the top, with a win by 3 goals or more guaranteeing them top spot in the group. The game on Tuesday will be the 13th meeting of these two European heavyweights. Barcelona currently have the edge over the Italian champions, with five wins to Juventus’ three. But Andrea Pirlo’s side have the firepower to cause the Catalans major problems....

We’ve all sat in meetings and experienced that awkward pause in proceedings, often punctuated by a desperate cry for IT help, whenever a new laptop needs to be hooked up to a display. What we have here is a plug-and-play antidote to all that. Anyone that wants to present simply plugs the Clickshare USB dongle, known as a Button, into their laptop and connects with a single click. ClickShare supports everything from Windows XP Pro to 8....

The rain continues to pose a threat, the center said, and all safety and shelter in place precautions continue to be in place. UPDATE 11:00 a.m. ET: The National Hurricane Center officially upgraded Barry from a tropical storm to a hurricane with sustained winds of 75 miles per hours. The NHC said the center of the storm was located near Marsh Island on Louisiana’s coast, west of New Orleans and south of Lafayette....

Week 17 of the NFL season wraps up with a Monday Night Football showdown between the Buffalo Bills and the Cincinnati Bengals, which you can bet on when you sign up for the new Barstool Sportsbook Ohio promo. This includes up to $1,000 in first-bet insurance when you use promo code NEWSWEEK1000 and wager on any betting market. Any bettor who registers for this Barstool Sportsbook Ohio promo with promo code NEWSWEEK1000 will be able to place their first cash bet knowing they’ll get a second chance if their wager loses....

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Bowden, 27, and Ross, 29, are both starring in the third season of the Netflix dating show and, though they initially formed a romantic connection in the pods, they ultimately ended up getting engaged to other people. As Love Is Blind fans know, the contestants on the show date in individual pods and do not meet their potential suitors face to face until they are already engaged. Bowden ultimately proposed to Nancy Rodriguez, 32, after losing interest in Ross when she was caught working out and doing jumping jacks while he opened up to her....

Barca revealed last month that the five-time Ballon d’Or winner, 30, had agreed a fresh deal which will see him stay at Camp Nou until 2021. Messi 21/10 to score first against Betis A press release on the club’s website stated: “The deal will be signed in the coming weeks, when Messi returns to the team for pre-season training.” But after Wednesday night’s 2-0 loss at Real Madrid in the Spanish Supercopa - a 5-1 aggregate defeat - Barcelona were forced to defend the fact that Messi is yet to put pen to paper on deal....

Barcelona have been excellent in the UEFA Champions League so far and will want to maintain their perfect record against Dynamo Kyiv tonight. The Catalan giants dismantled Juventus by a 2-0 margin last week and will want to make a massive statement with a victory against the Ukrainian side. Barcelona’s opponents Dynamo Kyiv are currently suffering from a coronavirus outbreak and will be forced to field a depleted squad in this game....

As part of a 15-year agreement between Spain’s top division and Relevent Sports, it was proposed Barca would face Girona at Hard Rock Stadium in January. But LaLiga’s plan proved highly unpopular, with the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) and Association of Spanish Footballers (AFE) both publicly speaking out against it. FIFA president Gianni Infantino in October said he would block any attempt to take a LaLiga game to the United States, although the league’s president Javier Tebas has continued to push for the proposal....

Barcelona beat Atletico over two legs in the semi-finals to earn a berth in the end-of-season showpiece and will take on Deportivo Alaves, who saw off Celta Vigo. Digne lauds Barcelona & MSN Atleti will now host the match as a result, with Real Madrid refusing to make the Santiago Bernabeu available for their rivals due to planned construction work. Barca and Alaves will meet on Saturday, May 27, the weekend after Atletico’s farewell to their current home against Athletic Club in La Liga....

One such player arrived onto the scene on 16 October 2004 playing for FC Barcelona against Espanyol in an away game, Lionel Messi. Messi played for the first-team in a friendly against Porto in November 2003 and was ruling the scene in the Barcelona ‘B’ team. 17 years old, Messi came on as a substitute replacing goalscorer Deco in the 82nd minute while Barcelona was leading 1-0. The ‘Little Magician’ didn’t register a goal or an assist but made people stand up and take a look at him....

Xavi is keen to add a central defender to his team as Gerard Pique’s mid-season retirement has left the club short on options. While the likes of Jules Kounde, Andreas Christensen, and Ronald Araujo are already there, Xavi wants a left-footed central defender. The 23-year-old French defender Ndicka has made 23 appearances for Eintracht Frankfurt this season. His contract with the Bundesliga club, however, will expire in the summer (June 30, 2023)....

The 29-year-old was one of the prolific strikers at the Merseyside club and his form saw him attract interest from the many clubs in Europe. He left Liverpool and signed for the La Liga winners in the summer of 2014. In his debut season, he went on to win the treble with Luis Enrique’s side. However, Barcelona failed to emulate that last season as they missed out on winning the Champions League....