Champions Barca Chase Century, Rashford's Future Hangs & Perez's Explosive Attack – May 13, 2026
Barcelona face Alavés chasing 100 points while Rashford's future remains uncertain. Meanwhile, Florentino Perez launches an attack on the club over Negreira.
The Chase for History Continues in Mendizorroza
The champagne has barely dried and already Hansi Flick is pushing his squad toward immortality. Barcelona travel to Vitoria tonight to face an Alavés side desperately fighting relegation, but for the champions, there's more at stake than professional pride. One hundred points. Only Tito Vilanova's 2012-13 side and Real Madrid's 2011-12 team have reached that mark, and Flick wants his name on that exclusive list.
Quique Sánchez Flores faces his own pressure cooker. His Alavés haven't kept a clean sheet in 20 league matches—over five months of leaking goals. They sit in the drop zone on 37 points, and tonight they'll give the champions a guard of honour before trying to tear them apart. Football's cruelty in a single image.
Flick's lineup remains anyone's guess. With the title secured, rotation seems inevitable, but the German has shown no signs of taking his foot off the gas. He wants those 100 points, and every culé should too.
Rashford: 14 Goals, 14 Assists, 14 Decisions to Make
Marcus Rashford's season in numbers tells you everything and nothing. Fourteen goals. Fourteen assists. The number 14 on his back. His strike in the Clásico was pure brilliance, but those three or four poor decisions in the same match? That's been his campaign in miniature.
The club remains divided on his future. Sources suggest the sporting department is exploring other options, but Rashford himself wants to stay. He's shown flashes of the player we hoped he'd be when he arrived, but consistency has been elusive. At 28, this isn't a development project anymore—he either clicks with this system or he doesn't.
Abde, meanwhile, is almost certainly gone. Newcastle and Aston Villa are both pushing hard for the Moroccan winger, and despite Barça retaining 20% of his rights, he's not a priority. The revolving door keeps spinning.
Florentino's Nuclear Option
Real Madrid's season has collapsed into farce and fury. Florentino Perez called an extraordinary press conference on Tuesday—supposedly to announce elections—but used it as a platform to attack Barcelona over the Negreira case. He's preparing a dossier for UEFA, complaining about Spanish authorities' supposed inaction.
The club is now studying legal action against Perez's comments. This comes days after Fede Valverde and Aurélien Tchouaméni reportedly came to blows in training, with Valverde ending up in hospital. Perez himself admitted that "players have hit each other every year I've been here," which is either refreshingly honest or deeply concerning, depending on your perspective.
He also managed to slip in sexist remarks to journalists during the presser. When it rains at the Bernabéu, it pours.
Bastoni Watch and Other Transfer Whispers
The Bastoni saga rolls on. This week should finally bring the crucial meeting between Barcelona, Inter Milan, and Alessandro Bastoni himself. Back in Italy, former players keep offering "advice"—Marco Materazzi being the latest—but the real negotiations happen behind closed doors.
It could be one of the summer's defining moves. Or it could drag on until September. Welcome to the transfer market.
Elsewhere, Barcelona will owe RB Leipzig another €3 million after winning La Liga, thanks to performance clauses in Dani Olmo's contract. Worth every cent, frankly.
