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“Barcelona and Liverpool have reached an agreement for the transfer of Philippe Coutinho. The player will sign a contract for the rest of the season and five more years with a release clause of 400 million euros,” said a Barcelona statement. The deal for the 25-year-old attacking midfielder will be the third biggest in football after the 222 million euros Paris Saint-Germain paid Barcelona for Brazilian star Neymar last year and the 120 million euros that Kylian Mbappe will cost PSG from Monaco once the French player’s loan period with the Ligue 1 champions is completed....

The club has already begun the reconstruction of their midfield with 21-year-old AFC Ajax’s Frenkie de Jong who is set to join by next season. In case you didn’t know… Barcelona are on an all-conquering rampage across all competitions, steamrolling Manchester United 4-0 across two legs to reach the UEFA Champions League semifinals. They have raced to a 12-point lead in the La Liga with yesterday’s 2-0 win over Alaves, with just 4 games left in the season....

The Catalans are currently sixth in the La Liga table and Xavi Hernandez and co. have a lot of work to do if they are to turn this season around. The club are also actively scouring the transfer market for players who can improve their squad. They are also looking to offload some deadwood this month. Without further ado, let’s take a look at the top stories involving Barcelona from 15 January 2022....

BARCELONA (Reuters) - Real Madrid can open a nine-point lead over bitter rivals Barcelona at the top of La Liga by winning Saturday’s ‘Clasico’ at the Nou Camp. Here’s what fans of the two teams are saying about the biggest game in Europe this weekend. Moises Llorens, Barcelona supporter and Diario AS journalist, “Barcelona at the moment give the impression they have forgotten how to play football. They are 13 games into the season and have really struggled to win games you would expect them to....

Watch Barca vs. Madrid for only $45k! Coach Luis Enrique will depart at the end of the current campaign and although the Catalan club have not yet decided upon a successor, the Blaugrana have already identified those two players as summer transfer targets. Barca have a long-standing interest in both and the club has been in contact with Verratti’s agent, Donato Di Campli, to ask about the PSG midfielder, so impressive in the French side’s 4-0 win over Luis Enrique’s men last month....

Barca beaten by Malaga and lose ground in title race PSG thrashed Barca 4-0 at the Parc des Princes, but it was Luis Enrique’s side that advanced to the next round after an amazing 6-1 win at Camp Nou last month. So will the Italian champions be intimidated by that historic turnaround when the two teams meet in the last eight? “Not at all,” Zoff told Goal in an exclusive interview....

Messi is considered one of the greatest players of all time, while Neymar is the most expensive signing in history, yet Barca have not won the Champions League since 2015. PSG, meanwhile, are still waiting on their first such title. And Van Gaal, who coached at Camp Nou from 1997 to 2000 and 2002 to 2003, believes the two individuals must take responsibility for these failings. “Look at Barcelona. How many Champions Leagues have they won with what they say is the best player in the world?...

Bill Hader’s genre-bending HBO hit Barry has charged into the second half of its third season with “crazytimesh*tshow,” directed by series co-creator Alec Berg and written by Emily Heller. The episode follows on from last week’s bombshell twist of Sally finally seeing Barry’s true colors and breaking up with him. Barry moves back in with his actor friends, who have since turned his bedroom into an “audition room” with a tiny space on the floor where he can sleep....

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The eighth seed eventually prevailed 6-7 (4-7) 6-3 6-3 but that only tells half the story. Barty led 5-0 in the first set and lost it, while a similar fate befell Anisimova in the second despite the American establishing a 3-0 lead. The decider was a little more conventional as Barty held herself the better to set up a title decider against Marketa Vondrousova on Saturday. Defeat will be tough to take for Anisimova, the 17-year-old looking to become the youngest finalist at a grand slam event since her childhood idol Maria Sharapova won Wimbledon in 2004 and the youngest in Paris since Martina Hingis in 1997....

It was Halep’s first match since October after a lengthy layoff due to a herniated disc in her back. Halep won last year’s French Open and lost to Caroline Wozniacki in the Australian Open final. “I think it was a great match after almost four months since I played one full match, the U.S. Open,” Halep said. “I think I played a good level of tennis. She played really well....

Spurred by the Bulls nostalgia — he grew up in Southern Illinois as a huge Jordan fan — Harlan couldn’t resist looking around on eBay to see what Jordan memorabilia and cards might be available, only to find the ship had already sailed on anything reasonably priced. The good/bad thing about surfing eBay is the suggested items, the ones that send you down into potentially expensive rabbit holes. One of the suggested items that popped up on Harlan’s screen was Expos-related, and he clicked....

Rojas did a little bit of everything before landing a job as a guy who gets to watch Mike Trout play every night, and that unique journey makes Rojas a perfect person to chat with for this week’s edition of Baseball Voices. (Editor’s note: The conversation has been edited for length and clarity.) SPORTING NEWS: In your career, you’ve been a pitcher and a hitter. You’ve worked for a baseball card company, been a pitching coach, a general manager and radio guy in Newark, radio guy for the Diamondbacks, Rangers color and some play-by-play, an MLB Network host and now Angels TV play-by-play....

MIAMI (Reuters) - Miami Marlins star Jose Fernandez, one of the most dominant pitchers in Major League Baseball and a hero to Miami’s Cuban community, was killed in a boating crash early on Sunday in Florida, the U.S. Coast Guard said. He was 24 years old. Fernandez, who as a teenager survived harrowing conditions at sea as he fled Cuba to start a new life in the United States, was one of three men killed when a 32-foot boat collided with a rocky jetty off Miami Beach, the Coast Guard said....

The Truth About 1080p and 60 FPS Gaming Videos 1080p resolution and 60 FPS have been the rallying cry in the console wars so far this generation, and even the video capture industry has jumped on the bandwagon. Every capture device boasts 1080p and 60 FPS these days. Still, they don’t tell you something significant. Recording games at 1080p and 60FPS at a bitrate that makes it look good results in huge video files....

The Georgian triumphed 6-4 6-4 after one hour and 39 minutes on court in Beijing to follow up his success at July’s German Tennis Championships in Hamburg. Basilashvili saved all seven break points he faced on his own serve against Del Potro, who admitted after the match he had played in the final despite being ill. Still, the 2009 US Open champion had his chances to force a decider after losing the opening set, failing to take any of the three break-point opportunities he created when leading 4-3....