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Malcom scores for Barcelona against Roma in 4-2 defeat in Dallas

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Malcom
Malcom signed a five-year contract with Barcelona

Just a week after snubbing Roma to join Barcelona, Malcom scored against the Serie A side in a 4-2 defeat in Dallas.

Roma had announced they had reached a deal for the 21-year-old Brazilian, but the Bordeaux winger signed for the Spanish champions instead for £36.5m.

Malcom gave Barca a 2-1 lead, before Alessandro Florenzi, Bryan Cristante and Diego Perotti scored for Roma.

Earlier Stephan El Shaarawy had cancelled out Rafinha's sixth-minute opener.

The Italian club joked before the pre-season match that it had muted any mention of the player on Twitter.

AS Roma tweet
Roma did not want to hear about Malcom before the game in Texas
AS Roma tweet
And then Malcom scored
AS Roma tweet
Roma were a lot happier on Wednesday morning after the win

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  • Comment posted by Eddie Mercury, at 09:38 1 Aug 2018

    Modern day football journalism = taking screen shots of football clubs' and players' Twitter reactions to absolutely anything, no matter how mundane.

  • Comment posted by Simon from Surrey GGMU, at 10:09 1 Aug 2018

    Barcelona are becoming increasingly desperate as a club. When Neymar left they lost their obvious future and now they're desperately throwing money around to replace him.

    That video of £100+ million Dembele being unveiled where he couldn't do kick ups was hysterical.

    Coutinho is not a £142 million player.

    They signed Malcolm because Roma were going to.

    Barca a shambles.

  • Comment posted by Psychoarsenalysis, at 09:58 1 Aug 2018

    Good sport ROMA despite the snub, muting 'Malcolm in the middle', hahaha

  • Comment posted by Paris, at 10:29 1 Aug 2018

    @16 Real Madrid have a team witha core of players over 30 and the best one just left.

    Modric will be done in a year or two.

    Bale only plays half a season.

    Sergio Ramos is primarily a cheat and he's been exposed to the Champions League refs now.

    Marcelo, Benzema, Bale, Ramos are 30ish.

    What has their manager ever achieved?

    More importantly, they can't sign ANYONE.

    Sinking ship.

  • Comment posted by Paris, at 10:14 1 Aug 2018

    Barca and Real Madrid have been rejected by too many big players this summer to really be considered as the giants of football they were from 09-17.

    Real have been rejected by Neymar, Lewandowski, Kane, Dybala and De Gea. The only player who seems to view Real Madrid as their pre-CR7 departure-selves is Thibaut Courtois which is probably because he has kids in Madrid.

    EPL overtaken La Liga.

  • Comment posted by Barackaddict, at 10:34 1 Aug 2018

    @16 anyone who watches the transfer market knows that Real Madrid and Barca are not what they were.

    Players used to go on strike and DEMAND moves there, now they'd rather play for Juventus, Bayern or a top EPL team.

    When Fabregas left Arsenal he paid £4.5 million of his OWN money to Arsenal as part of the transfer fee

    Now they get MUGGED £142m for Coutinho + £120m for Dembele. Shambles.

  • Comment posted by John, at 10:23 1 Aug 2018

    Roma dumped them out of the Champions League last year and that's all that matters.

    Just think about how much worse Barca will be once Messi starts to age.

    It doesn't look like they're going to be able to replace Iniesta, does it? Lucky they had him to replace Xavi.

    The end of an era approaching?

  • Comment posted by Lukas007, at 09:37 1 Aug 2018

    @Display name

    If this were the case its probably not a bad thing considering that most of the mainstream media is run by bigoted right ring conservatives.

  • Comment posted by mattyl, at 12:39 1 Aug 2018

    Signing something off from 'Everyone' instantly makes you a complete tool.

    Please leave people to have their own opinions.

    Thanks

    Just me

  • Comment posted by Barackaddict, at 10:20 1 Aug 2018

    If you read Spanish rags like Marca and Sport in the Gossip Column you'd think Barca and Real still ruled the world of football, but they don't and its becoming increasingly clear.

    Real Madrid have suffered so many rejections this summer that their PR people are now saying their relatively unknown manager is "Extremely satisfied" with his players and the rags are bigging them up now. Hilarious.

  • Comment posted by stevie_bhoy, at 10:44 1 Aug 2018

    The gap between Barca / Madrid and the rest has narrowed, but its all relative. They still have great sides that can win trophies over the next couple of years, during which time they can re-build. Barca overpaid for Dembele and Coutinho but they are still excellent players.

    The English sides didn't fare too well against La Liga in the Champions League last year - some perspective needed!

  • Comment posted by Maccy Bear, at 10:24 1 Aug 2018

    Barca & Real are done, sure.

    Real only won the last three CL and Barca before them & Real before that.

    Yea, I can see, they are done.

  • Comment posted by MrJamie, at 12:21 1 Aug 2018

    These comments. How are the Spanish clubs getting worse? They continue to win everything like they have for 10 years. And how are Barca in shambles? Have you seen their two games? Playing bunch of 17-21 year olds who would destroy 2/3rds of the prem.

  • Comment posted by benny tez, at 09:55 1 Aug 2018

    8. It was friendly not a defeat in the champions keague final alsoMikel has a bag full of medals if Malcolm gets the same amount he'll be over the moon I'd imagine

  • Comment posted by shamblesbaby, at 14:51 1 Aug 2018

    Dear BBC,
    "Rejects Roma last week, scores against them this week....."

    What the ....????

    last week = in the past - therefore past tense!
    Correction - 'Rejected Roma last week, scores against them this week.....'

    The, so called, bastion of the English language has turned into a crock of excrement.
    Dan Quayle can sleep soundly and contentedly again.

  • Comment posted by Nancy C, at 09:40 1 Aug 2018

    @ 1 (Display name)
    But surely that parallels the BBC political stance too

  • Comment posted by Heathy94, at 09:39 1 Aug 2018

    Just when you thought he couldn't p**s Roma off anymore...

  • Comment posted by GALAXY, at 18:58 1 Aug 2018

    11. Posted by Simon from Surrey GGMU on
    9 hours ago

    Barcelona are becoming increasingly desperate as a club. When Neymar left they lost their obvious future and now they're desperately throwing money around to replace him.

    Coutinho is not a £142 million player.

    --

    i'd rather have Coutinho over Neymar any day of the week. A true team player rather than a prancing prima-donna

  • Comment posted by ljm1992, at 11:57 1 Aug 2018

    @21. Paulinho has been sold 🤦‍♂️ Malcolm looks a fine prospect but doubt he will be part of the starting 11 over Dembele...

  • Comment posted by Eddguy , at 09:41 1 Aug 2018

    Have to admit there's a lovely bit of Karma at play in the fact he lost to the team he snubbed.... got a ring of the John Obi Mikel transfer between United and Chelsea from a few years back. Mikel never set tne world alight at the Bridge let's see how this guy fares.....

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