FC Barcelona - Mes que un club

It was a short, but a good month. The Elche game was an excellent way to start the season. I expected a trickier match vs Villarreal at El Madrigal. But we played great and won with 4-0. The players are getting in to the tactic. Now we need to continue the hard work.

Today FC Barcelona announced that Rafinha and Marc Bartra has extended their deals to 2019.


Marc started playing for Barcelona in 2002. He made his debut for the first team in February 14, 2010. Marc has played 32 matches in La Liga for Barca and he has played 2 matches for the spanish national team. Many people see him as a future captain of Barcelona.

"Marc is a great player and he can still improve. He is a player that we´ll see him at Barca for a long time", said Pep Guardiola.

I´m delighted to sign a new deal. I enjoy every day here. Playing for Barcelona is a dream for me, said Bartra.

The new deal will earn Marc €74k a week until June 30 of 2019. The new contract raises Bartra's buyout clause to 60 million euros.


Rafinha is a central midfielder, but he can also play as a winger. He had a good loan spell at Celta Vigo last season and returned to Barca this summer. He has been very good in pre-season and he made his first team debut in the 4-0 win against Villarreal.

Rafinha is a great talent that I believe alot in. I´m sure that he´ll do great this season. We´re very happy that he has signed a new contract , said Guardiola.

Very happy to extend my contract at Barcelona! #viscabarca, Rafinha tweeted.

The new contrat will see Rafinha earn €45k per week until June 30 of 2019. The new contract raises Rafinha's buyout clause to 55 million euros.

Another good month for us. We´re playing good football. The away win against Dortmund was a great start of the Champions League. I still want us to concede fewer goals but overall the team has done very well this far.

Fifa has confirmed that FC Barcelona will not be able to sign any players in the next two transfer windows (Until January 2016). The reason is that Barcelona has signed players aged under 18 against FIFA´s rules.

The rules says that players who´s age is under 18 are able to move to a club in another country if their parents move there for non-footballing reasons, if they are from another nation in the European Union or European Economic Area and aged between 16 and 18, or if they live within 100km of the club.

Barcelona appealed against the verdict and the embargo was placed on hold. But Fifa ruled the club will now be unable to register new players in the January and summer 2015 transfer windows.

Fifa said in a statement: “FC Barcelona is now to face a transfer ban which will see the club stopped from registering any players at both national and international level for two complete and consecutive transfer periods, starting with the next registration period (January 2015).”

A Fifa investigation found that Barcelona and the Spanish football federation were guilty of a “serious” infringement of the rules in relation to 10 players. Barcelona has been fined 450,000 Swiss francs while the Spanish FA has been fined 500,000 Swiss francs. The Spanish FA did also appeal but it was rejected aswell.

The Barcelona manager has commented the transfer ban: "Of course it´s not good to not be able to sign players. We had some plans for the next summer window. But we have a good squad that I trust at the moment. Aswell we have many good young players like Marc, Rafinha and Munir. And of course we have the fantastic B-team who´s full with young talents."

"Many people are panicing. But I´m calm. Most of our players for the future is already in the club. I´m sure La Masia will continue to produce."


As Guardiola said Barcelona has many high rated talents. In Barcelona the biggest talents is considered to be Marc Andre ter Stegen, Rafinha and Munir el Haddadi.


Ter Stegen was bought in the summer from Borussia Mönchengladbach and has already taken the place as first-team goalkeeper. He has made a very good season so far. Rafinha has returned from a loan-spell in Celta Vigo last season and has also made a good season so far, scoring two goals in La Liga. Rafinha recently extended his contract until 2019. Munir is the big surprise of the season this far. He has scored fantastic seven goals this far in La Liga. Very impressive for a 19-year old.

In Barcelona B the highest rated talents is considered to be Sergi Samper, Adama Traoré and Alejandro Grimaldo. But there´s also great prospects as Alen Halilovic, Carlos Fierro, Sandro Ramirez and Jean-Marie Dongou.


Sergi Samper is a defensive midfielder. He has done a fantastic season this far, and he´s rumoured to go to a bigger club on loan i January. 18-year old winger Adama Traoré has scored 5 goals in 5 matches this far in Segunda Division. Alejandro Grimaldo is the biggest defending prospect in Barcelona. He´s believed to be the next Jordi Alba.

To sum up it will be tough for Barcelona to not be able to sign players. But if you look at their talents, the future looks bright.

Hi and welcome to our live minute-by-minute commentary of the match between FC Barcelona and Real Madrid at the Santiago Bernabeu.

It´s an hour away from kickoff and the lineups are about to be released. And the big question is: Will Luis Suarez start and make his debut for FC Barcelona after his four-month ban?

Barcelona lineup: ter Stegen; Alves, Piqué, Bartra, Alba; Busquets, Mascherano, Rakitic; Munir, Messi, Neymar.

Real Madrid lineup: Casillas; Carvajal, Pepe, Ramos, Coentrao; Modric, Khedira, Kroos; Rodriguez, Ronaldo, Marcelo.

Very interesting lineups. Suarez on the bench for Barcelona, wonderkid Munir starts. And Marcelo as winger for Real Madrid.

There's an expected global audience of between 400 and 500 million for the biggest game in world football tonight.

A little under 15 minutes until kick-off, and the atmosphere is bubbling up nicely at the Bernabeu.

Five minutes until kick-off and the players are lined up in the tunnel as the Real anthem rings out around the Bernabeu.

The teams are out on the field and kick off is just moments away as Carlo Ancelotti and Pep Guardiola embrace on the sideline

Referee Fernández Borbalán gets the game underway.

1´ Barcelona start the game with possession of the ball around halfway for the opening exchanges.

3´ Real with counter attack through Ronaldo who finds James Rodriguez who takes the shot, but ter Stegen saves and Barca regain the possesion again.

4´ Free kick to Real Madrid after Alves fouls Marcelo about 20 metres from goal.

5´ Ronaldo takes the free kick but the ball goes wide.

8´ Foul by Sami Khedira on Messi.

10´ GOOOOOOOOOOAAAL FOR BARCELONA! Munir! Great shot from 25 metres. Casillas had no chance.

12´ Barcelona have established their possession game.

14´ GOOOOOOAAL BARCELONA 2-0! It´s Leo Messi! Coentrao fails to clear the ball off, it goes to Messi who scores a fantastic volley goal from the edge of the box, what a goal!

17´ Shot from Neymar from the edge of the box, comfortably saved by Casillas.

18´ Yellow card for Jordi Alba after a foul on James Rodriguez.

22´ Foul! Kroos catches Messi just inside the Real half.

23´ The free kick results in nothing dangerous.

26´ Ronaldo wants a penalty but the referee waved it away. It looked like a fair tackle from Piqué.

28´ Mascherano is shown the yellow card after a tough tackle on Luka Modric.

31´ Corner for Barcelona after a cross from Alba was blocked. The resulting corner is cleared by Real.

35´ Chance! Ronaldo misses the target from 15 metres out as he tamely connects with a cross from Carvajal.

38´ Real Madrid has a good spell of possession.

43´ Free kick for Barcelona after a tackle by Ramos on Messi. No yellow card.

44´ The free kick from Messi hits the crossbar! Wow that was close.

45´ It´s two minutes of extra time.

45´ Yellow card to Khedira. Tough decision. Was that even a free kick?

45+2´ The referee brings the first half to an end. Two great goals from Barcelona. The game has been very entertaining this far. Now the players will get some rest, and then we´ll be back with the second half.


HT Real Madrid makes two changes at half time: Marcelo & Khedira Benzema & J.Hernandez.

45´ Real get the second half underway.

48´ Chance for Barcelona. Alba finds Neymar down the left. But his delivery is cleared by Real.

50´ Save! Munir fires a left-footed shot towards the left corner of the Real goal and Casillas leaps to put the strike out for a corner, which doesn't materialise.

54´ Ramos fouls Leo Messi and is shown the yellow card.

56´ Barcelona enjoys a great spell of possession.

60´ Chance for Real! A good shot from Javier Hernandez but a great save from ter Stegen.

62´ GOOOOAL BARCELONA 3-0! It´s Ivan Rakitic with a great shot in the right corner of the Real goal.

65´ Real looks beated. Barcelona with another spell of possession.

68´ Wasted chance for Real. Great cross from Carvajal, but Benzema put it wide.

70´ Barcelona with a tripple swap! Busuqets, Munir & Messi Xavi, Pedro & Suarez. Suarez makes his debut for FC Barcelona!

74´ Another yellow card on a Real Madrid player after Modric fouls Suarez.

76´ Real Madrid make their third and final swap. Coentrao Arbeloa.

78´ Penaly for Barcelona!! A rough tackle from Ramos on Suarez in the box. A clear penalty.

79´ Xavi puts the penalty into goal! 4-0! Barcelona is playing great football tonight!

82´ The Real players look very frustrated.

86´ Corner. The cross from Alba is sliced over by Ramos for a corner to the visitors. Rakitic's delivery is cleared away.

90´ Three minutes of extra time.

90+3´ The game is over! Barcelona with an impressive 4-0 win against their biggest rivals at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium.

Another very good month. Our defense is very solid and our attacking is great. The Clasico match was great. We all now how much that game means for the fans so it was a great win. It hope we can continue our great form in November!

Another good month. A tough period with games against Valencia, Dortmund and Sevilla in one single week. But we played good. Especially in that 6-0 win against Sevilla. The whole squad has shown that they´re good enough. We have a very nice win streak. Now I hope that December will be a nice end of the year.

FC Barcelona full-back Daniel Alves has ended the speculations about his future by agreeing a new deal that will keep him at FC Barcelona until the summer of 2018.

The 31-year-old Brazilian, whose existing deal was due to expire at the end of the season, joined Barcelona from Sevilla for €32 million in 2008. He has won the UEFA Champions League two times, La Liga four times and the Spanish Cup two times with FC Barcelona.

Alves has played 202 league games for Barcelona and he has scored 14 goals. He has also played 80 games for the Brazilian national team.

The new contract will see Alves earn €210k per week until the summer of 2018.

Alves said following to Barcelonas official web page: I´m very happy to stay in Barcelona. I´ve had loads of fantastic memories here and I hope that it will be more of that in the future.

The Barcelona forward Munir el Haddadi has scooped a prestigious prize after being voted the 2014 European Golden Boy in a vote of journalists from across the continent. The award is given to the best young player (Under 21) in world football and was originally established by Italian newspaper Tuttosport and is voted for by a number of top publications from across the game. All players under the age of 21 are eligible.

Munir has had a great season in Barcelona, scoring 12 goals in 14 games. He is currently the top scorer of La Liga together with Leo Messi and Youssef El Arabi.

Munir, who is 19 years old, was one of 40 names nominated, including players like Raheem Sterling, Marquinhos and Mateo Kovacic but also the Barcelona players Sandro Ramirez and Gerard Deulofeu.

Munir is the third Spainard to win the price after Cesc Fabregas in 2006 and Isco in 2012. Here´s all the previous winners:


"I´m very happy to win this award, it´s a great achievement," Munir said to www.fcbarcelona.com. "It's a really happy feeling for me and my family, of course."

"I´ve won this award because of my hard work. I'm really happy that people are recognising that I'm trying to work hard and do my best for FC Barcelona and Spain. I'm really grateful for this award."

Great work so far keep it up.

It was an okay month. Very good win against Getafe and we went through the CL group without dropping points. But I had expected bigger wins against Sestao and the draw home against Cordoba was really disappointing. But overall my first six month as manager has been great. I´m proud of the players. Now let´s keep this up in next year!