biina:

@ogazi007
Puyol as your primary left back for the season is simply asking for drubbings in la liga. Offensively, he would have to make 180 degrees arse turns to deliver crosses as he is right footed.

Abidal has never delivered a useful pass since he joined barca and yet we have been winning most of our matches,our LB must not necesserily do the crossing,he only need to sails the ball to henry/inesta and the ball will be bouncing in the oponent 18 yrads box.


I havent seen Caceres at LB so cant comment on him, but I doubt he is better than abidal, and anyways he is rumored to be going on loan to zaragoza.
its a mere rumore,the guy is styaing for good.he will do better than abidal if given enough play time this season.

Of all your current options. abidal is still the best at LB, and moreso you need puyol for depth at CB.
You are not ready to pay €11m for filipe, but think you can outbid chelsea for the €20m rated Bruno Alves
You talk of an affordable rate, but can you think of one alternative of comparable quality that would come cheaper?

yes!Brazillian Andre santos,we have all seen what he can do in the just concluded confederation cup.Roma bidded for 6m if we add 2m the boy would have multiple orgasm for being wanted by the best football club on planet earth.

I am starting to suspect that Barca are hinging all their other transfers on the eto-villa deal, a deal I still dont get what they intend to achieve by it.
Its one thing to show interest in Villa simply to drive the price up for madrid, it something else to buy him at that inflated price.
Selling Eto for less than €30m, and buying Villa for €40m+, just seems like a bad deal. I dont see Villa as being €15m better than eto (if at all)
Now Laporta is playing innocent saying eto is not picking his calls. What was he expecting, given the way he and pep have treated samuel?
I hope eto simply sees out his contract and moves on for free

Madrid had given up on villa since u opted for Benzema, really is he better than Higuain?inasmuch as i want to agree with u that samuel eto has been ill treated by barca,i think Eto can humbly leave for mancity,its obvious laporta and pep are not ready to better his existing incentives.he is my black brother,he deserves more respect from barca, how i wish thay can resolve this amicably, i like Eto alot

ogazi007:

Abidal has never delivered a useful pass since he joined barca and yet we have been winning most of our matches,our LB must not necesserily do the crossing,he only need to sails the ball to henry/inesta and the ball will be bouncing in the oponent 18 yrads box.

its a mere rumore,the guy is styaing for good.he will do better than abidal if given enough play time this season.

yes!Brazillian Andre santos,we have all seen what he can do in the just concluded confederation cup.Roma bidded for  6m if we add 2m the boy would have multiple orgasm for being wanted by the best football club on planet earth.

Madrid had given up on villa since u opted for Benzema, really is he better than Higuain?inasmuch as i want to agree with u that samuel eto has been ill treated by barca,i think Eto can humbly leave for mancity,its obvious laporta and pep are not ready to better his existing incentives.he is my black brother,he deserves more respect from barca, how i wish thay can resolve this amicably, i like Eto alot

EXCLUSIVE: Barcelona To Sign David Villa From Valencia

[b]Barcelona and Valencia have reached a deal that will see David Villa move to Camp Nou and are expected to make an announcement soon, Goal.com has learned.

A source close to Camp Nou has revealed exclusively to this website that the Spanish international striker has had his wish granted and he will join the European champions this summer.

Negotiations have been ongoing between Barça and Valencia and the Catalan club's president Joan Laporta even revealed that a bid had been made during a television interview on Wednesday evening.

Now Goal.com has been told that a deal has been struck and that Villa will be a Barcelona player, although no details of the fee or any of the Blaugrana's squad going in the other direction was divulged.

Laporta suggested that a offer of over €40million had been made and that, allied with los Che's new chief Vicente Soriano's promise to let the player go this year, has meant the treble winners have their man.

The arrival of Villa could speed up the departure of Samuel Eto'o, with both Manchester United and Manchester City linked with the Cameroonian striker, who was Barca's top league scorer last term.

Real Madrid opted not to pursue Villa after being told that he was not for sale and instead forked out a fee of up to €41million to sign Karim Benzema from Olympique Lyonnais.[/b]

Krayola:

@ Biina. Having a good footballing mind is one thing. Dealing with so many egos is another. Pellegrini has his work cut out for him.

ogazi007:

They cant take it away from us, we are the first team known to have used 8 of our home grown stars to dethrone the champoins of europe.
the squad that ravaged MAN in Rome posed a serious challenge to madrid to look inward and pay more attention to their youth accademy, may be this would have reduced your finacial burden and makes the palyers to be more committed to the club.compounding debt just to sign big names is highly irrational to me.madrid should learn from treble barca, its not all about the cash, its all about the treble, lol

Krayola:

@ Biina. Having a good footballing mind is one thing. Dealing with so many egos is another. Pellegrini has his work cut out for him.

Yes o! The guy would have to find a way to please all the stars, the major prob would be the egos in the team, Raul is a major factor and has to be pleased and he always has a say in the team. Like i told biina before, if Barca leads the table in Dec, Pellegrini is history! considering he was third choice coach and I dont see him having the stern hand in the players affairs

ogazi007:

Good news!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
El classico is November 29th and my birthday is on the 30th November, hahhhhhaaaaaaaaaa.
madrid the big spender,be warned we shall use annoyance to teach u soccer.thousands of fans in camp nou would have reasons once again to burst into jubilation, its not going to be less than 3 nuts,i promise.

our first game is on the 31st of August with sporting gijon, i dont think they have forgotten what we did to them last season.
barca for life

Krayola:

We're too busy polishing all those trophies. We'll get to it at some point. Everybody wants to play for Barca  We'll pay them great salaries, we just won't pay more than they're worth just to sign them. That's our principle.

Filipe Luis has made no bones about his desire to team up with Barcelona after three years of service with Deportivo La Coruna.

According to Sport, Filipe has returned from his holiday early to meet with Deportivo president, Augusto Cesar Lendoiro, and ask him to accept Barcelona's offer, believed to be in the region of €9 million.

The president of the Catalan club, Joan Laporta, claimed yesterday that Deportivo were yet to respond to their offer, but Lendoiro said today that he has not been contacted by Barcelona chiefs yet.

Filipe, meanwhile, is still hopeful that Lendoiro will give him the green light to sign for Barcelona, telling Sport, "Today it will be all or nothing. I want to go."

Barcelona could be given an opening to go for the kill and snap up Filipe Luis, after the attacking left-back was surprisingly left out of Deportivo La Coruna’s official pre-season photo shoot.

According to Marca, the Brazilian was inexplicably missing from the final group picture despite his club reiterating that they would not sell the player if the Blaugrana could not meet the asking price.

Filipe has already publicly declared that he wants a move to the Camp Nou, and his omission from the photo could suggest that SuperDepor may now be resigned to losing the 23-year-old at some point this summer.

The full-back - who spent one season on loan at Real Madrid B four years ago - did, however, train with the rest of the squad during yesterday’s session.

Depor are reportedly still holding out for a transfer fee of around €14 million, but Barca so far have only gone as high as €9m.