So Here We Go Again! Only 2 Months into the New Galacticos era and one defeat later, news has started to pour in from the capital of Spain about disagreements in the squad, Mr. Galacticos being unhappy with Mr. Engineer (Manuel Pellegrini), Superstars throwing tantrums about getting substituted and Former President labeling the club destroyer of Presidents, Managers and Players. Well a lot of these ‘Reports’ can be traced back to some reporters wild imagination, not all of them can be ignored. Here is a round up of all the latest news from Madrid and why they are again going on course to not winning a title this term:

The most successful Barca Manager to date, Johan Cruyff, has talked at length to the Barca Official Website on the new show called ‘Recorda Míster’ (Remember Boss), and discussed at length everything related to his time as a player and coach at Barcelona and about football in general. The inaugural programme is the first of a three-part series on Johan Cruyff, who holds the record for consecutive seasons in charge of the first team. This first episode is entitled “Put the pieces in their position and don’t let them leave it”. He admits: “The result’s not everything, only a part” and while he recognises the importance of the result, he focuses on “good football”.

Transfer Reports From Spain are as wildly imaginative at times as a Bollywood script from India. Lets just look at the names that have featured this week in the various ‘transfer reports’ coming out of Spain. Our legendary Captain who just completed a decade at the club has been linked to a move to the English League with Arsenal and Manchester City in hot pursuit. The 32 year old Spanish defender has been in the news lately for his lenghty negotiations with Barca over a new contract. Arsene Wenger is said to be a big fan of the whole-hearted Blaugrana skipper and would pair him alongside Thomas Vermaelen in a new look defence, Sport state.

This is a piece of news Arsenal fans and a certain Arsene Wenger hates coming across the most. And the more they come out in the open against it, the more ferocious the claims of an impending transfer of Cesc Fabregas to Barca becomes. Arsene Wenger had joked this summer that if Barca launched a formal bid for Cesc, they in turn would do so our Messiah. Well I am sure every knows that our bid for Fab will be taken a little more seriously than that. Lets look at the reasons that favour the deal going through and what can become a hindrance:

Johan Cruyff has come out in the open after all the dust has settled on the Big and Shiny new contract of our Messi(ah) and in characteristic fashion criticised the Length of the New Contract till 2016. According to the Dutch Legend who masterminded our famous Dream Team in the 90’s, Barcelona were wrong in extending the deal till 2016 and did so in fear of Florentino’s second inning at Madrid and their Big Spending capability. Lets look into Messi’s new contract, his growth at the club and Cryuff’s opinion:

Almost Over a Month into the new season, Barcelona has played 6 Games in the La Liga and 2 in Champions League and now would be a good time to get in an early review of how the season is coming along for our forwards. We finished off the good work from last season by winning the 2 Super Cups we were involved in against Shakhtar and Athletic Bilbao. We have faced a few stern tests in Inter Milan under Jose Mourinho and Dynamo Kiev in the European Circuit. In LaLiga we have faced teams like Almeria, Atletico Madrid, Getafe, Racing Santander, Malaga and Sporting Gijon. Lets see how our attack  is coming along and where we are headed from here:

Playing Almeria at the Camp Nou was not expected to be the toughest game Barca was going to play this season up till now but that it what it turned out to be. No one was expecting a scrappy game at home and we were supposed to have repeated our last year’s performance when we thrashed them 5-0 at home. We had to rely on one moment of magic from our latest Cantera product, Pedro to seal the game. This win also puts the current team in the record books as they equalled the best ever start to La Liga with 6 wins out of 6.

Kick Off: Saturday, October 3, 20:00 CET
Camp Nou, Barcelona

So we are into week 6 of La Liga and the Top of the Table has a very familiar look to it as Barcelona and Real Madrid are head to head in terms of points and goals scored. This week features us playing Almeria at home where as Madrid face a difficult trip up at Sevilla. Ronaldo is reported to be put of that fixture with an ankle injury and the fact that Madrid play after Barca’s game, will add to further importance to the fixture. However one thing Pep Guardiola is warning everyone about is Complacency. Full Match Preview follows: