Spain's Professional Footballers' Association say they are opposed to taking Barcelona's league fixture against Villarreal to Miami in December.

Villarreal are close to signing Chelsea defender Renato Veiga for a fee in the region of €30 million ($34.9m), sources have told ESPN.

Thomas Partey made his Villarreal debut as a late substitute as his new side launched their LaLiga season with 2-0 home win against Real Oviedo.

Real Madrid have slammed plans to play December's LaLiga game between Villarreal and Barcelona in the United States.

The Spanish football federation has given its approval to a request from LaLiga clubs Barcelona and Villarreal to play a league match in Miami this season.

The RFEF's board will discuss on Monday taking the first step in the process of holding December's LaLiga game between Villarreal and Barcelona to Miami, a federation spokesperson has confirmed to ESPN.

Villarreal have signed former Arsenal midfielder Thomas Partey.

Viktor Gyökeres' first Arsenal start couldn't prevent his new club from suffering a 3-2 defeat to Villarreal at the Emirates Stadium on Wednesday.

Versatile Canadian international Tajon Buchanan has made his move to Villarreal permanent on a five-year contract after joining the LaLiga club in February on loan from Inter Milan.

All 20 teams are jetting around between league seasons, including for friendlies, training camps and the Club World Cup After a training camp in Spain the Gunners head to Asia, kicking off their tour with a friendly against Milan in Singapore. They play again at the National Stadium four days later, against Newcastle, then face Spurs in Hong Kong. Two friendlies follow at the Emirates Stadium, against Villarreal and Athletic Club. Continue reading...

David Moyes interested in Villarreal’s French striker Kostoulas moves from Olympiakos for £29.8m Everton have turned their attentions to the Villarreal striker Thierno Barry as David Moyes attempts to improve his forward options for next season. Barry scored 11 goals in La Liga last season and 19 overall as Villarreal qualified for the Champions League. The France under-21 international is understood to have a release clause of €40m in his contract with the Spanish club but Everton would hope to sign the 22-year-old for less. Barry is currently on international duty at the European Under-21s Championship. Moyes’ need to upgrade Everton’s attack is pressing with the club having missed out on Liam Delap, declined to take up an option to sign Armando Broja on a permanent deal from Chelsea and with Dominic Calvert-Lewin expected to leave on a free transfer this summer. Calvert-Lewin’s departure would leave only Beto and the unproven Youssef Chermiti as central striking options. Meanwhile, Brighton has signed Charalampos Kostoulas from Olympiakos for a reported £29.8m (€35m) fee. The 18-year-old, who scored seven goals in 22 games as Olympiakos won a record-extending 48th domestic title last season, has signed a five-year contract with Brighton that starts on 1 July. Continue reading...

Villarreal's games have produced more goals than any LaLiga team's this season except for Barça, and they're bringing the fun to the Champions League.

The Yellow Submarine won at Barcelona to seal fifth place and vindication for a manager they sacked nine years ago Villarreal had given everything all season when with one game left the roof fell in on them, but not like that. It had been 10 long, hard months of “solidarity and commitment … methodology, work, honesty and dedication,” their manager said, yet this was no late lament, all that for nothing; instead, this was reward and release, “time to enjoy it”, to let go, so they did. Outside at Montjuïc, Barcelona had begun their party, even 2025’s first league defeat and killjoy keeper Wojciech Szczesny saving an outrageous overhead kick from his own son not spoiling the fun; inside the dressing room, the club from the small town 200 miles south had begun theirs too, and nothing could ruin this either. Someone put La Morocha on and the players were bouncing about, drumming the rhythm on the ceiling when, in another triumph for cheap construction, the first beam came down. Captain Juan Foyth, looking like a kid who’d put a football through the neighbour’s window, raised his arm to protect his teammates, quietly laid it to one side, and they carried on. The track was changed, Handel now, and they lined up. Some tipped their heads back, gazing at the ceiling they had broken. Others put hands on hearts. Most laughed. All of them scatted and sang, at least the word they knew: maybe not die meister, maybe not die besten or les grandes équipes, and definitely not eine grosse sportliche veranstaltung, but certainly the champions. The flag they carried read “the village wants the Champions League” and now they had it. Villarreal, the team from the place whose population could fit into Montjuïc, had come to Catalonia, handed the newly crowned champions a guard of honour and then beaten them 3-2, helped by their hangovers, to secure fifth and a return to Europe’s biggest competition with a week to spare. The season, Santi Comesaña said, had been “almost perfect”. Continue reading...

Barcelona coach Hansi Flick was happy to write off his team's first league defeat since December as the newly crowned LaLiga champions lost 3-2 at home to Villarreal on Sunday.