FC Barcelona News: 19 February 2026; Gavi continues recovery, Barça Femení draw Real Madrid in Champions League quarter-finals
🚨BREAKING: Julián Alvarez WILL PLAY for Barça after the World Cup, price would be around €70m. His time at Atlético Madrid is OVER.He wants to join a better team, a team where he can win more titles. There was interest from Arsenal as well.— @hugorbalassone--”My information is that Julián Álvarez is going to play for Barcelona. There was interest from Arsenal. His time at Atlético de Madrid is over. It hasn’t been a good season for him, despite scoring a goal. He believes his career needs a team that can give him a title,” he said.“The motivation for Julián is to go to a team that can be champions. It’s true that Atlético de Madrid can win the Copa del Rey, but it hasn’t been the step he expected. Julián Álvarez, I can confirm this, after the World Cup he’s going to play for one of the best teams in the world. Can you imagine Yamal and Julián up front?”Hugo Balassone seeming more like Hugo Baloney 🌭, amirite?Don't forget they bought him from City for €75M; with the deal potentially rising to €95M because of add-ons.His contract expires in 2030, and two days ago we saw this too:❗️Atlético Madrid have offered a contract renewal to Julian Alvarez.— @sportBut obviously SPORT are not reliable for Atléti (but are for us in terms of transfers and financial things) so it's likely 🧇.However, the original point regarding him remains, and it seems like Hugo is operating on emotion rather than any reliable logic, especially with him saying "Can you imagine Yamal and Julián up front?" which is akin to what the presidential candidates for our elections are trying to emulate when it comes to flashy signings 🙄.
0Girona vs Barcelona, La Liga: Final Score 2-1, Wasteful Barça miss giant chances, lose on the road
This logic does not make sense IMO. It is almost ignoring the consistent disgraceful issue this season.We have seen on countless occasions that football can be a game of narrow margins even if a team deserves to be ahead.The issue we have is constant game-changing, egregious decisions against us again and again during those narrow-margin moments; which ultimately decide games.Wasteful finishing does not mean you cannot be justifiably incensed at these decisions.We have been robbed when leading games comfortably too.We should not have to win in spite of what we're coming up against.https://twitter.com/BarcaUniversal/status/2023521543410905568
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