Galtier guided Lille to the Ligue 1 title last season. He was back at the club on Saturday, helping Nice batter his old side 4-0By Eric Devin for Get French Football NewsThe French poet Paul Valéry once wrote that “nothing beautiful can be summarised”….
PSG’s signing of Lionel Messi shows celebrity is trumping competition | Jonathan Wilson
Ligue 1 looks unhealthily one-sided and it is not alone: the domination of the game’s super-clubs is only just beginningIt gets to Sunday evening. You’ve done your chores. You’ve had your dinner.You’re tired. You have work on Monday. You just want some…
The Guardian view on Barcelona and Messi: decline and fall | Editorial
One of the world’s greatest sporting institutions lost sight of the principles on which its success was basedTen years ago at Wembley, FC Barcelona won football’s Champions League with a performance that established an absolute hegemony in the world’s …
Difficult days for Real Madrid and Barça plunge La Liga into uncertainty
Lionel Messi and Sergio Ramos are gone, while Diego Simeone’s Atlético Madrid will fancy their chances of back-to-back titlesZinedine Zidane was the first one out, so early it feels like a lifetime ago. Then Sergio Ramos departed, the full-time whistle…
Messi’s case shows clubs, not elite players, are the real powerhouses of football | Jonathan Liew
Even in his moment of greatest sadness there was no recrimination, only departing tears, which Barcelona then repackaged as contentFittingly, it began and ended with a napkin. Lionel Messi’s first Barcelona contract was signed hastily on a restaurant s…
‘I wanted to stay’: Lionel Messi tearful at Barcelona exit as PSG move looms
Argentinian leaves Barça after more than 20 years at clubHe denies deal already agreed with Paris Saint-GermainLionel Messi hadn’t even started talking when he started crying. Holding a tissue handed to him by his wife, Antonella, he leant on the lecte…