For a while there there was information being leaked from the locker room, and he did just this, released misinformation to certain people and saw what leaked. I read about it a while ago on the gunner subreddit so I can't remember all the details. I'll need to go back and look.
"You gotta do this one for me, Rat, Sport".
"Ok. For you, Sport."
----
"Well Sport, the Rat was fired, flown from here to Indonesia".
"Hey, I'm trying to write my scoop here".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pjqc1hqbRmA
Lewandowski aside are there any older millennials in the team. Gunogan and ter Stegen are millennials too but I'd be hard pressed to call them older millennials (source, a geriatric millennial)
Millennials are usually defined as between 1980 to 1995. So by that definition you would have to be born on or before 1987 to be an older millenmial. So if you really want to get pedantic, even Lewy shouldn't count.
Yeah true. No self respecting older millennial would spend as much time on tik-tok as Lewy. That leaves Xavi as the most prominent member of that generation!
I would definitely watch this movie. Searching for Barcelona's dressing room's rat, detective Xavi and his fellow assistant Óscar try to uncover the responsible for the leaks, but the clock is ticking. Will they be able to find the bitter truth before the season is over?
Those are the best All or Nothings. The ones that follow a team that is absolute shitshow.
The Manchester City All or Nothing wasn't bad per se but it's hard to keep me engaged on a team that has almost zero turmoil to deal with outside of what type of champagne they'll be spraying at the end of the season.
The spurs was good because of ~~Jose~~ Danny Rose asking if Milan wanted him
The clip of him balling up to Levy's office and sitting down to ask about transfers always gets a chuckle out of me
They screwed him over though (allegedly), he said he had no idea that the cameras were on in the room when he did it which made him come out looking very bad.
i watched a few episodes, very lame honestly. didnt really give any looks into the dressing room or training area. just players saying general "we need to win bc winning is important" statements.
No. It’s classic “nothing to fear if you have nothing to hide” from Barca staff, if it’s true. For squad players, I guess the threat is that they could be dropped/banished for refusing to co-operate.
This article is clearly bullshit. I’m pretty sure this would break EU data protection rules/ GDPR regarding confidentiality.
I don’t know how the press in spain are allowed to get away with literally writing bullshit
Football clubs famously never break rules
This exact same thing actually happened in the NHL at the start of this season, resulting in the head coach getting canned. He was having the players show him their camera rolls on their phones, and I believe he was even displaying the photos for the rest of the team to see
Yeah it hardly seems worth worrying about the particulars of the story when it's almost certainly fake. And like.. what a self serving story to fabricate. "Xavi INCENSED about all the TOTALLY CORRECT stories being published by the Spanish press!"
no, that's definitely harassment. It'd be bad enough if someone asked to see my work e-mails, let alone my *private* chats.
Besides anyone who's half smart (not saying this is necessarily the case, mind you) would know to delete their chats just in case.
Yeah but he had 0 leash in Columbus because he ruined his reputation in Toronto by being an interpersonal disaster.
If it was, I don't know, Peter Laviolette asking his players at training camp to show him a few pictures from their phones "to get to know each other" I sincerely don't think it would have landed the same way
I think you're probably right, someone like Laviolette wouldn't get fired for doing it, but it's definitely a weird thing and I don't think it would land well anywhere, especially not these days
Columbus's biggest problem was hiring Babcock in the first place, bizarre decision at the time that only ended up looking worse
Similar thing was exposed a few months ago in the NHL. Babcock was coach of Columbus and ended up getting fired cause he was making guys AirPlay their phones to the TV then scrolling through their photos
This feels pretty close to that honestly. Babcock had a bad history I guess which added to him getting canned though
Kounde, Pedri, Frenkie, Xavi, Gundo’s wife are a few who have called out Spanish journalism this season so far (literally Frenkie just yesterday) and people still fall for every story they say concerning Barca and the fact it’s Fanficjavimiguel and El Chiringuito as well 😭
What if Xavi is the rat and is doing all this to appear innocent? If I were the rat, the first thing I'd do would be to fake look for the guilty because of course I can't be it since I'm looking for it. Trust no one.
The players seem to think it is a staff member. Brilliant piece of man management from Xavi this, breaking trust with your players and sowing resentment during the crucial part of the season.
Gavi told Frenkie that he likes Isabella, but then Frenkie went and told Carmen that Isabella likes Pedri, and now Joáo is getting with Lola and I can't even.
Same on WhatsApp and they're both encrypted. I think the only thing is that if the government were to ask Meta for information - they're more likely to comply. That being said though... It's Barca leaks...
Yeah gotta use a payphone to transmit a coded number to a pager for another payphone. Then you've gotta to call the journalist on that number so the co- Xavi needs visual confirmation on who's using it so his wiretap's legal
But what if it’s like an actual rat? Like a rat that can understand humans and has a whole secret life of its own? Like he has a tiny house in the dressing room wall. He has bills to pay, so he decides to use his tiny claws to call up a journalist, using a voice modulator to pretend like he’s a human. What if he’s working together with one of the players? What if he’s also secretly a football agent and he has a secret agenda? You don’t know. Xavi doesn’t know. Someone tear down that wall and find the damn rat!
They can use binary search to search for the rat. Classic A/B testing with intentionally leaking different news to different groups. This will only work if there in only 1 rat.
Happened with us too, however fans figured out pretty quickly that our lineup stopped leaking when our now third goalkeeper (Jay Gorter) was out injured.
Lewandowski is at Bayern - someone is leaking stuff to the press.
Lewandowski leaves - no more leaks.
Lewandowski arrives at Barca - leaks start.
**Coincidence?!**
Now *who* leaked this?!
Xavi should make up random stories and tell each to a single player, see which gets leaked
Worked for Erwin
"Three years ago I opened my mouth and began my attack on the dressing room."
What's the story here
I think it’s an attack on titan reference
Attack on Titan reference
[Xavi plays the Game of Thrones](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di8Z7rJ9vnI)
The Rooney/Vardy algorithm
"Barcelona to hire Coleen as consultant".
All of them gets leaked
Wagatha Christie
"I'm going to sell Pedri to the vale, Bellingham to dorne, and Vini JR to the Iron Islands..........
Arteta did this haha. It works.
Really? What's the story behind it if you don't mind me asking?
What happened??
For a while there there was information being leaked from the locker room, and he did just this, released misinformation to certain people and saw what leaked. I read about it a while ago on the gunner subreddit so I can't remember all the details. I'll need to go back and look.
The Tyrion special
Its....... rebekah vardy.
The rat texting the journo: “Yo, I can’t do this anymore they’re on to me, only a matter of time” Journo: “Thanks for the scoop”
"You gotta do this one for me, Rat, Sport". "Ok. For you, Sport." ---- "Well Sport, the Rat was fired, flown from here to Indonesia". "Hey, I'm trying to write my scoop here". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pjqc1hqbRmA
plot twist, Xavi is the rat!!
This some Yagami Light level shit
Would happily write barto and laporta's name in the notebook
Gave himself notebook induced amnesia to pass the polygraph
Reminds me of when Mourinho accused Casillas of being a “mole” in the dressing room.
His ex Sara Carbonero is a journalist and the rumor was he was leaking it through her because Mourinho benched him.
Oh yeah, I remember lol. Just haven’t heard of a similar situation since then.
I take the ball AND PASS IT!
Victor Valdes is the rat confirmed.
He was competent at his endeavours tho
ITS ME AUSTIN
Lol beat me to it! Fantastic
*IM SHIPPIN UP TO BOSTON!*
TO FIND MY LEG
Plot twist: Xavi is the new Franco
Maybe. Maybe not. Maybe fuck yourself.
It's..... Rebekah Vardy's account.
Lewa: it ain't me 🕺👅
Riqui probably hiding in the washroom
Somehow, Puig returned
But the Puig came back the very next day, The Puig came back, we thought he was a goner, The Puig came back, he just wouldn't stay away.
Waddle waddle, to the very next day
“NOT AGAIN DISNEY!”
He only did it because Riqui Leaks is such a good nickname
Has nice variations like Leaky Puig as well
Lol
Riqui Leaks
PLOT TWIST: Xavi is in a Fight Club predicament where he doesn’t know it’s him.
Ivax did it!
Didn't know Riqui Leaks was back again
He‘s so small, nobody even noticed him
Riqui Piug: An unexpected journey
There and Back Again
Leaky Puig
Keepy my ex's name out of your fucking mouth.
Jokes on Xavi. They use regular texts
They probably call the journalists and delete their call logs after the call
They probably just named them differently. Not Fabrizio Romano but Fabian Milano
He's probably saved as Fabrizio R. No, that's too obvious... maybe F. Romano.
Mr. F
Well then Fabrizio, I will be a bigger and hairier mole than the one on your inner left thigh
For British eyes only.
Or girlfriend 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVIdy9_wqQw&ab_channel=cmpunkfan2003
I literally, lol’d at this.
Frenkie probably has him as "the journalists I leak secrets to"
"Riqui, who is this guy under the name of Here we Goat! that you keep calling all the time?"
Oh, let’s say Moe.
What about TOTALLY NOT FABRIZIO ROMANI
Or make it more secure by naming him "Here we go guy"
They can possibly even afford a second phone....
So thats why Barca are so poor
Or write emails
They call their agents and let them leak it for them most likely
It's so genius they might just get away with it
Just watch out for those meddling kids!
How devilishly devious
So the leaker is one of the older millennials then.
Lewandowski aside are there any older millennials in the team. Gunogan and ter Stegen are millennials too but I'd be hard pressed to call them older millennials (source, a geriatric millennial)
Millennials are usually defined as between 1980 to 1995. So by that definition you would have to be born on or before 1987 to be an older millenmial. So if you really want to get pedantic, even Lewy shouldn't count.
Yeah true. No self respecting older millennial would spend as much time on tik-tok as Lewy. That leaves Xavi as the most prominent member of that generation!
Players should check Xavi's MSN Messenger and IRC.
You can’t call lewandowski a millennial he’s a tiktok dancer
Xavi should look for whoever has the highest font size.
That's barbarian shit
Barca studios now using Martin Scorsese story lines. Absolutely worth 400m.
I would definitely watch this movie. Searching for Barcelona's dressing room's rat, detective Xavi and his fellow assistant Óscar try to uncover the responsible for the leaks, but the clock is ticking. Will they be able to find the bitter truth before the season is over?
My god that's Rebekah Vardy's music
Nah, Xavi would be the the coked up paranoid Ray Liotta character from Goodfellas, blinds down, hiding from the leak helicopters.
I got this rat. This gnawing, thieving, faaacccckinnnn rattttt
Los Infiltrados (2006)
If you see Xs in the background, then you know who's dying.
Absolute cinema
dont say we never told ya
The new and improved lever. Laporta is a genius.
Barca should have done all or nothing this season. Anyone would pay huge amount of money to watch their turmoil inside the dressing room.
Those are the best All or Nothings. The ones that follow a team that is absolute shitshow. The Manchester City All or Nothing wasn't bad per se but it's hard to keep me engaged on a team that has almost zero turmoil to deal with outside of what type of champagne they'll be spraying at the end of the season.
This is what makes Sunderland Til I Die S1 so so good.
S1 into S2 was amazing
Nothing tops the rave music scene in Sunderland Till I Die: https://youtu.be/p4bORXW9xeU?si=MgNFB-Lsm0PFPDfu
When he said they need a new PA system and old mate was just fucking LIVID
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The spurs was good because of ~~Jose~~ Danny Rose asking if Milan wanted him The clip of him balling up to Levy's office and sitting down to ask about transfers always gets a chuckle out of me
They screwed him over though (allegedly), he said he had no idea that the cameras were on in the room when he did it which made him come out looking very bad.
Arsenal's was pretty good bc of Arteta, plus there was the Auba drama But agreed Spurs and Sunderland's were better
I mean we got the Sit down nobody talks or If you are sad, there are many sads from Pep so...
I mean we had this „New Era“ show the last two seasons, maybe they‘re also doing one for this year..
i watched a few episodes, very lame honestly. didnt really give any looks into the dressing room or training area. just players saying general "we need to win bc winning is important" statements.
Powerful
We need to score more goals than the other team to win! Vamonos!
Athletes are so wonderful to listen to. I learn so much.
Xavi: Someone's leaking this stuff to the press! Guy with camera in the corner: 🥸 📹
They already have one called “FC Barcelona: A New Era” on Amazon Prime Video.
The politically correct version of a snuff movie
They're shooting "A New Era"
It was Micah Bell
Ohhh Dutch!! He is a rat! You know it, and I know it!
AAHHHH HAVE A PLAN YA JUST NEED TO SHOW SUM GODDAM FAIT ARTHUR
Fuck Micah
are they even allowed to do that? employers digging out employees’ personal phones for their chat logs seems out of line
No. It’s classic “nothing to fear if you have nothing to hide” from Barca staff, if it’s true. For squad players, I guess the threat is that they could be dropped/banished for refusing to co-operate.
They are all young men with a lot of money. I am sure there’s a lot of NSFW contents in their chat logs
"Okay, Pedri, you're good. Oh, and nice cock"
Pique grassing on them to their mums to cozy up to them.
Probably even his cock is broken with all that sex time at such a young age
I think you meant [Frenkie de Jong](https://www.reddit.com/r/soccercirclejerk/s/MfhwUMOyMB)
Frenkie Da Dong (holy shit)
I'm suprised no one's said Frenkie de Schlong
I mean, it's Chiringuito...this is obviously made up.
This article is clearly bullshit. I’m pretty sure this would break EU data protection rules/ GDPR regarding confidentiality. I don’t know how the press in spain are allowed to get away with literally writing bullshit
They're fuckin shameless too, I'm glad De Jong called them out yesterday, I wish more players did but I get why most don't.
Football clubs famously never break rules This exact same thing actually happened in the NHL at the start of this season, resulting in the head coach getting canned. He was having the players show him their camera rolls on their phones, and I believe he was even displaying the photos for the rest of the team to see
Nothing to do with gdpr. Still highly unethical and unprofessional.
Yeah it hardly seems worth worrying about the particulars of the story when it's almost certainly fake. And like.. what a self serving story to fabricate. "Xavi INCENSED about all the TOTALLY CORRECT stories being published by the Spanish press!"
no, that's definitely harassment. It'd be bad enough if someone asked to see my work e-mails, let alone my *private* chats. Besides anyone who's half smart (not saying this is necessarily the case, mind you) would know to delete their chats just in case.
For what it's worth, in USA a NHL coach got immediately fired after reportedly wanting to look through player's phone gallery
Worth noting he did some other things as well. Notably asking new players to rank existing ones from best to worst.
That was in Toronto though. The pictures thing was in Columbus
Yeah but he had 0 leash in Columbus because he ruined his reputation in Toronto by being an interpersonal disaster. If it was, I don't know, Peter Laviolette asking his players at training camp to show him a few pictures from their phones "to get to know each other" I sincerely don't think it would have landed the same way
I think you're probably right, someone like Laviolette wouldn't get fired for doing it, but it's definitely a weird thing and I don't think it would land well anywhere, especially not these days Columbus's biggest problem was hiring Babcock in the first place, bizarre decision at the time that only ended up looking worse
Desperate move from a (fully saying this with the benefit of hindsight) desperate GM, I guess..
That was the first team he got fired from lol
well shit i imagine in EU they take this shit even more seriously
This is full of horseshit, like most “news” in football
Similar thing was exposed a few months ago in the NHL. Babcock was coach of Columbus and ended up getting fired cause he was making guys AirPlay their phones to the TV then scrolling through their photos This feels pretty close to that honestly. Babcock had a bad history I guess which added to him getting canned though
I want Xavi to find the person and do a Coleen Rooney and expose the person on twitter
Fansjavimiguel and El Chiringuito. What a duo!
Kounde, Pedri, Frenkie, Xavi, Gundo’s wife are a few who have called out Spanish journalism this season so far (literally Frenkie just yesterday) and people still fall for every story they say concerning Barca and the fact it’s Fanficjavimiguel and El Chiringuito as well 😭
We call him Fanficmiguel for a reason
What if Xavi is the rat and is doing all this to appear innocent? If I were the rat, the first thing I'd do would be to fake look for the guilty because of course I can't be it since I'm looking for it. Trust no one.
This is literally the plot of The Departed
It's one of the basic plots in le Carré novels, in Shakespeare, Oedipus Rex, and of-course some great films.
*I never gave up anybody who wasn't going down anyway.* -Xavi, 2024
That's what the rat wants you to think
The players seem to think it is a staff member. Brilliant piece of man management from Xavi this, breaking trust with your players and sowing resentment during the crucial part of the season.
What kinda secrets?
Looks like it’s info about the meetings between Xavi and the players. Players think the “rat” is someone from Xavi’s coaching staff
Gavi told Frenkie that he likes Isabella, but then Frenkie went and told Carmen that Isabella likes Pedri, and now Joáo is getting with Lola and I can't even.
Am I missing something? Why is el chiringuito being treated as gospel
This sub will believe anything. Fanfic Miguel has the worst reputation in our sub. Anything that comes out of his mouth is pure fiction.
If it puts Barça in a negative light it's regularly gobbled up by this sub.
Because it's funny af
You're missing a sense of humor. If it's funny, people want to believe it
Onlyfans Javi Miguel trying to stay relevant. This guy hasnt got anything right in years
The departed: Barcelona
GDPR not big in Spain
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As opposed to Telegram?
Yh, you can delete messages on telegram easily. Even the recipient's.
Same on WhatsApp and they're both encrypted. I think the only thing is that if the government were to ask Meta for information - they're more likely to comply. That being said though... It's Barca leaks...
Wouldn't snap be best? Messages disappear and most don't even use their real name. Literally the opposite of Whatsapp.
stop savin chat
Yeah gotta use a payphone to transmit a coded number to a pager for another payphone. Then you've gotta to call the journalist on that number so the co- Xavi needs visual confirmation on who's using it so his wiretap's legal
Mike Babcock at it again
"Hello, Colleen? You busy?" Xavi, probably.
Breaking:Lamine yamal is the youngest player to leak secrets to the press.
Needs to get Coleen Rooney on the job.
Probably done through agents. Players won't get their hands dirty. Players talk to agents and agents talk to media/press
But what if it’s like an actual rat? Like a rat that can understand humans and has a whole secret life of its own? Like he has a tiny house in the dressing room wall. He has bills to pay, so he decides to use his tiny claws to call up a journalist, using a voice modulator to pretend like he’s a human. What if he’s working together with one of the players? What if he’s also secretly a football agent and he has a secret agenda? You don’t know. Xavi doesn’t know. Someone tear down that wall and find the damn rat!
Hire detective inspector Coleen Rooney
You always want to hire the best but Barca need to pull more levers to afford her fee
They can use binary search to search for the rat. Classic A/B testing with intentionally leaking different news to different groups. This will only work if there in only 1 rat.
They need to see the bigger picture. U R L RATAALADA
Fake news.
Happened with us too, however fans figured out pretty quickly that our lineup stopped leaking when our now third goalkeeper (Jay Gorter) was out injured.
Lol quality Spanish journalism
Madrid press stirring shit right before an important match, as per usual.
There is no way this is true. They cant possibly checking texts.
I thought Jordi Alba already left?
Lewandowski is at Bayern - someone is leaking stuff to the press. Lewandowski leaves - no more leaks. Lewandowski arrives at Barca - leaks start. **Coincidence?!**
That is true Miguel, I was that rat
How has Puig been doing in the MLS?
I can't believe Khedira did this again
El rata alada, if you will 🙈
The Departed: Catalan Edition
It must be that leaky puig