This is not a team that can play as it wants to, as it is meant to. Julien Laurens chimes in on Ronald Koeman's impact in his short tenure at Barcelona so far. This was a brutal, ruthless, surgical exposure of all that is wrong with Barcelona.

No, it is deeper than that, more far-reaching than that, more urgent than that. Barca are a club in transition, yes, and parts of that transition would surely be rocky, but who wouldn't want to play behind Lionel Messi, even if it's just for one year? 09.48 BST: Liverpool's young striker Rhian Brewster wants to hold talks with Crystal Palace in the hope of launching his Premier League career in earnest, The Sun on Sunday reports. The 17-year-old's release clause was automatically increased to €400m after Barcelona officially promoted him to the first team for the upcoming season. They scored 4 unanswered goals, had an overall of 17 shots in the game, 9 of which were on target. Gerard Pique, Clement Lenglet, Jordi Alba and Sergi Roberto started in defence, Sergio Busquets and Frenkie de Jong started in a double pivot, Ansu Fati and Antoine Griezmann started as nominal wingers, Philippe Coutinho started as the nominal 10, and Lionel Messi as the nominal 9. No club has spent more money over the last decade or has a higher wage bill than Barcelona. 18.20 BST: Manchester United winger Daniel James has told manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer that he wants to stay and fight for his place, according to Sky Sports. Coutinho and Frenkie provided good support too. Sétien, too, was motionless. However, there might need to be some negotiations before a move is made, as he has a release clause of €70m. That the game was lost in the flanks when that obviously was Bayern’s main threat hints at the poor tactics chosen | Photo by UEFA / Handout via Xinhua. There is no sporting event that is watched more and is as passionately followed. That is easier said than done, of course: Barcelona has the highest payroll in soccer hanging around its neck — its players earn more, on average, than any other team in any sport in the world — and the sorts of teams that might buy its expensive, aging stars are few and far between. In the same vein, Frenkie, who played really well for the first 70 minutes, lost the ball at least three times in the last 20 minutes. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. But, then again, Dest has seemingly been on this path for quite some time. Julien Laurens cannot wrap his head around why Luis Suarez was treated so poorly in his Barca exit. Ruthless from Bayern Munich.Serge Gnabry takes the Muller pass and scores their third goal in the first 30 minutes. It would be a swift return to the Premier League for Lookman who left Everton last summer in a £22.5m deal. This time around, though, it looks like Koeman is strong enough to win the tug-of-war over Dest's future. It was only after Kubo came on that they could get into the box with some regularity from the left. Lenglet made a wonderful pre-assist and was assured in his passing in general. He meant business; trying to take on defenders, and trying to shoot whenever he found an opportunity.
Dest had agreed to personal terms over a week ago with Bayern but was tempted by a move to Barca, Fabrizio Romano reports. • How the summer transfer market works
Sétien will pay, one way or the other, because at Barcelona — as at all of the other misfiring super-clubs, the teams who now consider themselves too big to fail, who have forgotten that their size and their success is a direct corollary of the excellence they once embodied, not something bestowed on them in perpetuity by the divine — the coach always pays. Dest has always shown his affinity for Barcelona, with several U.S. youth national team teammates recently joking that he's been wearing Barca tracksuits to training for years. Informations sur votre appareil et sur votre connexion Internet, y compris votre adresse IP, Navigation et recherche lors de l’utilisation des sites Web et applications Verizon Media. Pjanic seemed to have shaken off his rust and did pretty well to win the ball back on a couple of occasions, and was very clean with his passes. It was right there in the top left-hand corner of your screen.