De Jong talks to Manzano, Getty Images January 19, 2026, 3:26 p.m

The midfielder of the Catalan Barcelona, ​​Frankie de Jong, criticized the referee Jesus Gil Manzano, who worked at yesterday’s lost match of the “blue garnets” with Real Sociedad (1:2).

“Ultimately, if it’s offside, it’s offside (Yamal’s disallowed goal – note). It should not be otherwise. I didn’t see offside. We were told that he was not there. I told the fourth umpire about it. The same thing happened here last year.

I want to say that you can’t even talk to the judge. I am the captain, and I do not understand this. He looked at me with an expression on his face that seemed to say, “I’m better than you.” This is frustrating. He shouldn’t act like that.

We missed a lot of moments. This is the most annoying. At the end of the game, on top of that, I kept telling the ref to watch the clock. It took them a minute to get a goal kick… That’s normal for them. And he did not add even ten seconds. This is madness. I told him about it and he gave me the card,” de Jong said.