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Luftstalag14

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We are losing the keeper Gonzalo Perez de Vargas to Kiel after next season, allegedly because we didn't give him a pay raise. I understand we are making cuts in the sections but come on, for a Barça lifer like him to go strictly because of money is a shame. Bundesliga is the best league in the world but I wish him very little success with Kiel.

In Emil Nielsen we trust!
 

Messi983

Senior Member
Looks like Cindric is leaving.

Handball Barça and Luka Cindric live a few decisive hours to close an agreement for the termination of the contract of the Croatian center-back, one of the measures imposed by the club due to the economic cuts in the sections.
In a press conference after the Final Four in Cologne, the Barcelona handball coordinator, Joan Marín, calculated that the reduction would be around "10%" of the budget for this season, which he estimated at "about 7.5 million euros". , so that the expected savings in the handball section would be over 750,000 euros.

In this objective, the departure of Cindric, who has one of the highest chips in the squad, was one of the main actions planned to reduce the budget, but the Croatian central defender had a contract until 2025 and his desire was to continue at Barça. It was necessary to get down to work to reach an agreement.

The 'Cindric case' is to handball this summer what the 'Mirotic case' represents in basketball, still without an agreement because the Spanish-Montenegrin player also aspires to collect a large part of his two years pending contract, 22 million euros gross ( about 11 million net), figures that are obviously very far from the amounts of Cindric's contract, which is estimated at about 700,000 euros gross per season although there are no official figures.
 

Messi983

Senior Member
Great 30-22 win against PSG in Paris in first game of EHF CL quarterfinal.

We also won home game 32-31 and have qualified for the Final Four for the 6th consecutive season. This was also the last EHFCL game for PSG's Nikola Karabatic who will retire after the Olympic games.

Also qualified for the Final Four are Aalborg, reigning champions Magdeburg (they've beat Kielce on penalties) and Kiel who made a historic comeback against Montpellier.

THW Kiel made history on Thursday night: “The chances to proceed are on five percent”, said coach Filip Jicha after the 30:39 defeat in the first leg of the quarter-final at Montpellier last week, but his side grabbed the chance and made the miracle come true: Goalkeeper Tomas Mrkva was the hero in the final stages, when Kiel scored a 7:1 run to beat the French side 31:21.


So we have our semi-finalists! THW Kiel, Barça, Aalborg and Magdeburg will fight for the Machineseeker EHF Champions League 2023/24 trophy in Cologne on June 8 and 9.

Who will play who on the big weekend in Cologne? The draw takes place on May 7 in Budapest, starting at 17:00 CEST, for both the men's and women's competitions.



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serghei

Senior Member
Saw the matches, this time we are good but no longer favorites for the whole thing imo. Might be for the best.
 

Messi983

Senior Member
36-23 win against Torrelavega for 11th consecutive Copa and we have won all 53 domestic titles since 2013.

It is the fifth title of the season for the Blaugrana after the Catalunya Super Cup, the Iberian Super Cup, the Spanish Cup and the ASOBAL League. So far, only the Club World Cup has escaped and the great challenge of each season remains pending, the aforementioned Champions League. There are now 53 domestic titles in a row for Barça, all since the defunct Atlético de Madrid won the 2013 Cup.


Lack of competitive games in Spain is obviously not good when we have to play against good teams in Europe but hopefully will win CL too next week.
 

serghei

Senior Member
We just steamrolled Kiel in the CL semifinal. On to the final. We absolutely ran over them right in from of their fans. Ortega is a great manager.
 
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Messi983

Senior Member
Didn't see this coming. Nielsen had brilliant game and then ofc everything is easier when your GK is on fire.

Final against Aalborg, probably better for us than Magdeburg.
 

Messi983

Senior Member
Ortega renewed until 2027, great news.

Well, more precisely, he had his contract automatically extended for another year after winning Champions league.

 

Messi983

Senior Member
Lost against Veszprem in OT in semifinal of Super Globe (Club world championship). Ortega just can't win this competition.
 

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