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Ronald Koeman: Time’s Up?

After two back-to-back abysmal performances, Ronald Koeman’s future in his position as Manager of FC Barcelona has received plenty of speculation. Many fans believe it’s time for the club legend to exit the club and for a fresh face to step in. Barcelona faced off against Bayern Munich in the Champions League last week for the first time since the humiliating 8-2 loss in August 2020. The match wasn’t very different this time around with Bayern Munich clearly the strongest of the two sides and earning themselves a well deserved 3-0 victory against the Catalan club, who didn’t even register a single shot on target. Barcelona fans weren’t very happy by the very poor performance from the team and apparently neither was Joan Laporta. And rightly so! Barcelona suffered another humiliating loss at the hands of Bayern Munich last week. On Monday, Barcelona met Granada at the Camp Nou where they conceded in the second minute of the game! For most of the game, the Catalan side were nowhere near ...

LaLiga Season Preview 2021/22

Overview The La Liga 2021-22 season will be the 91st season of La Liga and will be kicked off on 13 August 2021 with the game between Valencia and Getafe at Estadio Mestalla. Atlético Madrid will play as defending champions while RCD Espanyol, Real Mallorca and Rayo Vallecano have joined as the promoted clubs from the 2020-21 Segunda Division. The presence of fans might boost the confidence of the players as LaLiga allowed a certain number of spectators to watch the match since the COVID-19 pandemic. Let's look at the teams Atletico Madrid They will start the season as favourites.  With the new signing of Rodrigo De Paul, they stabilized their midfield who'll accompany Koke, Marcos Llorente, Thomas Lemar, Saul and Yannick Carrasco. In upfront, Luis Suarez leading the line with Jao Felix are also there to blaze. Shot stopper and MVP of the last season, Jan Oblak will be keen to rescue as well. The defending champion tag will provide them an extra morale boost. The ma...

The Truth Behind La Liga’s CVC Deal.

The Truth Behind La Liga’s CVC Deal. With all the financial problems that Covid-19 brought to all over the world including La Liga, it was almost inevitable that something like this would come around sooner or later. And so, on the 4 th  of August, the Spanish league announced to the public they had reached an accordance with CVC Capital Partners, an investment firm that mainly operates around Europe and Asia.         (Javier Tebas la liga president) What does the CVC deal entail? As many of you may already know, La Liga’s president Javier Tebas recently struck a deal with CVC but most of you many not know all of the facts behind the contact and the affects it would have on clubs like Real Madrid and Barcelona.    This isn’t even the first time the banking company has invested in a sports with a recent €430.5 million deal with the Six Nations Rugby League and a majority stake in F1 that they bought for €1.6 billion.   The deal mea...