

Articles tagged with "yaya-toure"
Barcelona - NY Red Bulls: Today, 7pm EST
By Isaiah | August 6th, 2008First, you can check out Dave's excellent coverage of yesterday's Malaria No More event here (it includes a scintillating interview with Henry!). I personally thought ...
The Readers CL XI - Central Midfielders
By Rob | May 12th, 2008We're begining to get to the buisness end now. If you haven't been paying attention, at the CL Offside, we've been offering you the chance ...
El Clásico!
By Isaiah | May 6th, 2008I know that the rumors about who is leaving and who is arriving are flying thick and fast from all over the world (should we ...
Barcelona - Valencia: Sunday 1pm
By Isaiah | May 3rd, 2008There's a Spanish word that I love both because of its meaning and the actual sound when you spit it out: venganza. Revenge, payback. You ...
Manchester United - Barcelona: Champions League, Tuesday 2:45pmEST
By Isaiah | April 28th, 2008Update: Check out the liveblog on the main page This. Is. It. There's no tomorrow, no next match. We're in it to win or we're out ...
Photo of the Day: Getting the Job Done
By Laurie | April 9th, 2008Barcelona player Yaya Toure celebrates with teammate Samuel Eto'o after Toure's goal in the Champions League quarterfinals against Shalke. Barcelona won the game ...
Barcelona 1 - 0 Schalke: YAY...a Toure Edition
By Isaiah | April 9th, 2008So I just spent somewhere in the 20+ minute region writing up what wasn't too bad a post, certainly evolving into something worthwhile anyway, and ...
The Return of the Absentees
By Isaiah | April 2nd, 2008The big news coming out of La Masia today seems to be the return of Deco and Ronaldinho to full training. Kevin has already expressed ...
Almeria - Barcelona: Preview; Sunday 2pm EST
By Isaiah | March 14th, 2008Updated version. I found out this morning that there is so much more news available that I just couldn't fail to update my "janky" preview. ...
Barcelona - Celtic: Champions League Second Leg!
By Isaiah | March 3rd, 2008Updated version It's the second leg of the Champions League first round knockout stage and we've got a decided advantage going in. We're up 3-2 already ...
Atlético de Madrid - Barcelona; Saturday 2pmEST
By Isaiah | February 29th, 2008It's back to La Liga now, with the Copa semis taking a break for a couple of weeks. It's another trip to the Calderon to ...
Preview: Barcelona - Real Zaragoza; Saturday 4pm EST
By Isaiah | February 14th, 2008So I know it's a day early, but the preview for the first of many must-win games is here and I'm leaving town tonight on ...
Sevilla - Barcelona: Copa del Rey preview + randomness
By Isaiah | January 8th, 2008It's January and a soccer blogger of even my stature would be remiss if he or she didn't cover a couple of the rumblings in ...
Some thoughts before the real thoughts
By Isaiah | December 17th, 2007You'd think it'd be hard to organize your thoughts before such a huge game as the one coming up this weekend, but the reality is ...
Barcelona: a statistical analysis of the defense
By Isaiah | December 16th, 2007The question of Barcelona's defensive capabilities has been brought up before, in comments, and I'd like to take a moment or 10 to delve into ...
Valencia - Barcelona: Preview (Saturday, 4pm EST)
By Isaiah | December 14th, 2007Saturday's matchup at the Mestalla is not just between two heavyweight contenders in the La Liga title chase, but also between The Offside crew. Cesar ...
Flu season!
By Isaiah | December 7th, 2007Deco, who just returned from injury (and incidentally was officially given the medical all clear today), is sick with the flu and is a "serious ...
Lyon 2 - 2 Barcelona: Review and Highlights (Group Winners, biotches! edition)
By Isaiah | November 29th, 2007Before we truly get going, I think it's only fair that I admit that I did not get to see this game. Obviously this detracts ...
RAWR!!! Don't Look Now But Here We Come!
By Inara | November 27th, 2007Today Lyon crawled back from behind twice to draw with Barcelona at the Gerland. While a win would have been much sweeter, at least Lyon ...
Barcelona 2 - 1 Sevilla: Review and Highlights (I heart Toure edition)
By Isaiah | September 24th, 2007While everyone else is lauding the brilliance of Messi during Saturday's 2-1 defeat of Sevilla at the Camp Nou, I think it would be wrong ...
Press Conferences, Practice, and Whatnot
By Inara | September 18th, 2007Less than 24 hours to go before what promises to be one of the most stressful 90 minutes of my life. I've already done a ...
Barcelona 3 - 1 Athletic Bilbao: Review and Highlights
By Isaiah | September 4th, 2007Second league game, first league win. And still no goals from open play. For those of you who have merely looked at the score sheet ...
Barcelona - Athletic Bilbao Preview
By Isaiah | August 31st, 2007I know I didn't do a proper review of the Gamper Cup game, so here is a mini-review before the larger, more thorough preview of ...
Racing de Santander 0 - 0 Barcelona: Highlights and commentary
By Isaiah | August 27th, 2007Naturally I didn't get to watch this game as it wasn't broadcast here in los estados unidos, but I did get to read some hot ...
Ronaldinho to become a Spanish citizen
By Isaiah | August 23rd, 2007Just a bit of good news for Barcelona fans: Ronaldinho will become a Spanish citizen on Monday, meaning that Gio Dos Santos will be able ...
A Brief Study of Barcelona's Formations and Happy Anagrams: MIRTH, ZAP ME
By Isaiah | July 24th, 2007There's little else Barcelona fans seem to be discussing these days and with a couple of requests to do so myself, I've decided to weigh ...
Gabriel Milito transfers to Barcelona!
By Isaiah | July 11th, 2007Yay! Gaby Milito is going to sign with Barcelona! If you can read Spanish, here is Real Zaragoza's official announcement of the transfer. That's great ...
Abidal is official; Barcelona heart spending $...er €
By Isaiah | June 28th, 2007The word is out that the Abidal transfer is legit, so that's good news. Barcelona have agreed to a 14million euro ($18.8million, or like 3, ...
Fabio Capello fired, Bent is better than Thierry
By Isaiah | June 28th, 2007The big news coming from the Spanish capital today is that Fabio Capello, who just led Real Madrid to the title, has been dismissed. This ...
Toure is officially presented
By Isaiah | June 26th, 2007Yaya Toure has been officially presented as a Barcelona player. He will wear the number 17 according to the club's official webpage. [Update: Toure's deal ...





