The Athletic.

Jude Bellingham's Real Madrid aren't the only team upstaging the mighty Barcelona this season.

Sivina with a cross, Stoani can win it!

Stoanis won it!

It's 4-2 to Girona!

The Catalans are nine points behind league leaders Girona, and worryingly,, the goals have dried up for star striker Robert Lewandowski.

So, he's javi on Borough time in the dugout,

and why is Barcelona President Jean Laporta interfering in squad selection?

Well, let's find out.

I'm Ayahuakim Wolle.

Welcome to the Athletic Football podcast.

Okay, so on this Tuesday, I'm joined by the Athletics Barcelona correspondent, Paul Belous,

for this one. Paul, let's talk Barcelona, you know, without a win in their last three matches

across all competitions. And you wrote about this actually, saying the Valencia game would be

quite an interesting one, especially where Javi is concerned. It ended 1-1 over the weekend.

What's the mood like in the club right now?

I think that as soon as, like, with all the public statements that Lapporte did after

the championship game against Antwerp, you could sense that Barcelona wants to try to stick

with Chavi.

But yeah, that draw, it simply just makes things not better.

Just the atmosphere stands because Barcelona is not getting results, but of all they are

not playing well, which was like the big assignment that they had for this season.

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