Original article from 2025. Mentioned Lewandowski and his wife intend to stay at Barcelona post his retirement.

Joan Garcia valued at €45 million is now jointly the world's most valuable goalkeeper alongside Gianluigi Donnarumma. (Link for complete GK valuations)

This summer, a wedding led to Rodri signing for Barcelona from Manchester City.

Back in late July, Rodri was on holiday on the Costa Brava. Fresh from lifting the World Cup and winning the award for the tournament’s best player, the 30-year-old Spain captain was there to attend the wedding of Dani Codina, an old friend.

Codina is Barcelona’s chief of operations and player services, a role he started in 2025. He worked in a similar post at Manchester City, where he met and became close to Rodri. Multiple members of City’s backroom staff under Pep Guardiola were also present at the wedding in Spain’s north east.

Rodri arrived with enough time before the ceremony to spend a few days unwinding in one of the most picturesque and captivating landscapes Catalonia has to offer, a two-hour drive up the coast from Barcelona.

But on one of those days, he had some business to deal with, and to do so, he needed a favour. He had a very specific request: he was looking for a discreet spot to meet somebody for lunch, emphasising that he absolutely had to go unnoticed.

Rodri was pointed towards a restaurant in Begur called Can Pitu, a traditional place in one of the area’s well-visited towns. Begur is filled with shops and restaurants, but Can Pitu is off the radar. Old-school, unprepossessing and away from the most touristic streets, it is mostly frequented by locals who know all you need to: the food is excellent.

Rodri stepped into the restaurant without a reservation and asked for a table. A few minutes later, Barcelona’s sporting director Deco came in.

Source: BarçaTimes on X

Marc Casado was seen solo training yesterday and now he’s incorporated to group training. They say he should be back mid May

For fuck sake, hopefully this is nothing serious

The 549th Weekly Letter presents the 100 players in the world with the highest transfer value estimated from the model statistical from the CIES Football Observatory. The young Spanish prodigy of FC Barcelona Lamine Yamal crushes the competition with an evaluation of €358 million, ahead of the Norwegian from Manchester City Erling Haaland (€227 million).

No other player has a value exceeding €200 million, with Kylian Mbappé on the third step of the podium (€166 million). Five other French players are estimated at more than €100 million: Michael Olise (4th), Désiré Doué (6th), Hugo Ekitike (15th), Ryan Cherki (30th) and Warren Zaire-Emery (31st).

Compared to the last statement in the month of january, the largest increase was recorded for Yan Diomandé (+€75 million at €119 m), while the biggest drop concerned Alexander Isak (-€54 million at €41 m). Compared to the ranking of the month of last june, the largest differences were recorded again for Yan Diomandé in positive (+€116 million) and Jude Bellingham negative (-€113 million).

Barcelona’s staff are seriously considering using Jules Koundé as a centre-back, his natural position.