Oh yes...
Thanks for bringing Busquets up.
People still whine that he dives and all.
But for the people who have been watching all the matches from this season and the last, you could tell he has cut out that non-sense out.
EVer since the peek-a-boo incident against Inter he has stopped over reacting.
Too bad people keep on living in the past.
Look for other people's positives, dont hate.

People who are not familar with La Liga or Barca think that you need a strong, well built DM but you dont.
All you need is a player who is very good in reading the games.
Like Busquets said, he is always calculating.

And it's true. The amount of times, he blocks a move, I mean like cutting out the passing lanes. He is a master at that. You may not really see what he does cos the ball is away from him but try next time, just follow Busquets. He is genius.

Barcelona ready to sacrifice star striker


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Barcelona are preparing to offer David Villa to Manchester City and Chelsea for £40million.

The Catalan giants have ­reluctantly accepted that they will have to ­sacrifice their World Cup-winning striker to help fund a £91m triple summer swoop for Arsenal skipper Cesc Fabregas, Udinese winger ­Alexis Sanchez and Villarreal striker Giuseppe Rossi.

Barca boss Pep Guardiola has been restricted to a £40m transfer budget as the La Liga and Champions League winners set about slashing their £350m debt.

And Nou Camp president Sandro Rosell has made it clear to his ­manager that further money for ­signings must be generated through sales.

Villa, 29, joined Barca only 13 months ago in a £35m switch from Valencia and notched 23 goals for Guardiola’s team last season.

He is also Spain’s all-time record scorer with 46 goals in 72 international appearances.

A source revealed: “Guardiola has a list of players he is ­prepared to move on to give him more spending power in the transfer market, but Villa is definitely not on that list.

“Ideally, he wants to keep Villa – especially after the impact he made in his first campaign with Barca. He sees David as a big player as his side push for more trophies next season.

“But he also knows that he may have to sacrifice Villa to finance incoming deals. And Manchester City and Chelsea would be very happy to buy Villa.”

Rosell has told the Gunners that he won’t pay more than £35m for Fabregas, while a £2.7m-a-season deal with the £30m-rated Sanchez – who is also being chased by Manchester United, Manchester City, Juventus and Inter Milan – has already been agreed.

Rossi is close to completing a £26m switch, and his agent Federico Pastorello confirmed: “His dream is to certainly wear the Barcelona shirt and with official negotiation I believe a deal can be done.”

Barca’s Spanish international c­entre-back Gerard Pique, who played alongside Rossi when they were youngsters together at Old Trafford, said: “Giuseppe has so much talent, good control and is very fast.

“He fits neatly into Barcelona as both a man and a player.”

Oh yes...
Thanks for bringing Busquets up.
People still whine that he dives and all.
But for the people who have been watching all the matches from this season and the last, you could tell he has cut out that non-sense out.
EVer since the peek-a-boo incident against Inter he has stopped over reacting.
Too bad people keep on living in the past.
Look for other people's positives, dont hate.

People who are not familar with La Liga or Barca think that you need a strong, well built DM but you dont.
All you need is a player who is very good in reading the games.
Like Busquets said, he is always calculating.

And it's true. The amount of times, he blocks a move, I mean like cutting out the passing lanes. He is a master at that. You may not really see what he does cos the ball is away from him but try next time, just follow Busquets. He is genius.

sos - http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/news/News-...icle749171.html

guys, today newspaper,not sure metro or berita harian, i read about this article, a complete translation in BM, but that is not the point. the point is how relevant is this rumors? are our team really gona sacrifice villa just like that?

Yeah, but the same sympathy is hardly been shown to Cristiano Ronaldo despite he being significantly better in cutting out those antics.

Oh yeah? Whatever, the main point is both Ronaldo and Busquets tend to dive, and so are many other big names. Please stop the hypocrisy.

Hello fellow Cules, please be extra careful when reading British press reports. There're sh!t, believe me. That article you quoted for instance, it is absolutely laughable considering that they publish the news but don't have the balls to properly mention its true source. What is their source? Someone from inside Barcelona? A member of the board poerhaps? Or Rosell himself?

That's why I prefer reading Sport.es and EMD. Even though their reports may contain a lot of exaggeration and overly bombastic news, at least they don't make up quotes, and they don't act like they have secret agents acting as their 'source'. Even with those horrible translation by Google, I don't mind.

frankly speaking, i know it was crap when i read bout that report however, i just afraid that lightning strike twice like wat happen to ibra.. i mean for me ibra is performing ok when he was with us.. but too bad he just be with us only a season, i wonder what kind of dispute happen between him n pep.. 

btw, assuming sanchez will play for us, n let say we manage to get febregas too, so who will be playin in the first eleven.

ok, we r playin 4 3 3, that is abidal, puyol, pique n alves at the back, in the center we will hav busquets/masch, xavi/febregas n iniesta, forward shud be messi,villa n pedro/sanchez.. whatever it is i wishes that affelay can hav more play time as i c a lot of potential in him, i hope he'll be like bergkamp in our team.

frankly speaking, i know it was crap when i read bout that report however, i just afraid that lightning strike twice like wat happen to ibra.. i mean for me ibra is performing ok when he was with us.. but too bad he just be with us only a season, i wonder what kind of dispute happen between him n pep.. 

btw, assuming sanchez will play for us, n let say we manage to get febregas too, so who will be playin in the first eleven.

ok, we r playin 4 3 3, that is abidal, puyol, pique n alves at the back, in the center we will hav busquets/masch, xavi/febregas n iniesta, forward shud be messi,villa n pedro/sanchez.. whatever it is i wishes that affelay can hav more play time as i c a lot of potential in him, i hope he'll be like bergkamp in our team.

I'm not really follow La Liga, but why Barcelona want to get rid of David Villa for Sanchez and Rossi ? Isn't it better to have majority of Spanish player in the squad ?

Bojan to Roma for real?

Hi matyrze. Would like to know your view about bojan's transfer. Still a really young lad(21 years old) and i thought he has been the "Wonderkid" in barca(A striker and one of LA masia's product). But despite his age and nationality, 10 million pounds is quite a nice amount.