FC Barcelona President Joan Laporta was deemed to have left the exit door 'very open' to star defender Ronald Araujo when speaking at a press conference on Tuesday.

When Sandro Rosell was president of Barcelona from 2010-14, he allowed Qatar Airways to be their front-of-shirt sponsor, replacing charity Unicef. Laporta was critical of Rosell for that decision, saying “you had to choose between Qatar and corrupt or between Unicef and clean”.

Barcelona will now almost certainly be in the draw for the Copa del Rey quarter-finals as they have now gone 3-0 up against Real Betis in their last 16 tie.It was Gavi that opened the scoring for

Barcelona followed up its rout of Real Madrid in the Spanish Super Cup final with a comfortable 5-1 victory over Real Betis in the round of 16 of the Copa del Rey on Wednesday. Gavi and Jules Koundé scored a goal each in the first half-hour and Raphinha,

Barcelona back up their Spanish Super Cup triumph by thrashing Real Betis to cruise into the quarter-finals of the Copa del Rey.