LOLOLOL...

FIFA also reported the same. The move has been completed in January. Anyone care to dig Barca's website for the official story?

Actually, there's no agreement between Udinese and Barca on a fee, yet. It's just that the Catalan media is getting too excited, as usual

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Added on June 20, 2011, 1:09 pmOr you can take the statement from this website:

http://www.teamtalk.com/news/2483/6996862/...fee-for-Sanchez

33 million pound.

But according to Sport.es, no agreement yet. Just wait the news I guess.

This post has been edited by matyrze: Jun 20 2011, 01:09 PM

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.

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.

Sport has published the details about Sanchez transfer:

1) 28ME
2) 5ME in variables
3) Jeffren go to Udinese
4) Jonathan Soriano to La Liga newcomer Granada.

Why suddenly Granada? Because both Granada and Udinese are owned by the Pozzo family. The father owns Udinese, the son owns Granada.

Despite this, there are still working on even more details. Seems like it'd take a lot more for Udinese lowering their expectation. IINM initially they demanded 50ME.

BTW, Messi provided this gorgeous pass to assist Aguero

Roma interest is real, but Bojan is still away with Spain U21 squad. Any discussion should be held until the tourney ends I guess. So too Jeffren, about his move to Udinese.

Yeap 10 million is pretty good amount. However another problem pops out. Barca keen to add 2 years buy back clause into the the agreement. However Roma are rumored to ask a whopping 20ME, much higher than 12ME Barca expected Lets see how it turns out.

Personally I'd like Bojan to stay, but I gotta admit that during the last game I watched him playing, which was during last 15 minutes of Spain U21 vs Ukraine game, I twice facepalmed because of his poor decision making. Maaayybe he really needs the move, but for me once he goes away, there's no chance for him to succeed here

Yeah Real Madrid have done the same thing, but the chance of being successful is highly questionable. Only de la Red showed huge potential, too bad his career ended prematurely.

We also have our own experience with this buy back clause thingy with Gerard Lopez, but it was a big failure because he was plagued by injuries after he returned from Valencia. So I'm very pessimistic about Bojan succeeding in blaugrana shirt, if he is transferred to Roma. Maybe he'll a success in Roma, but not at Camp Nou.

Villa: Rumors move to England? That's not even a rumour, that's just a lie. I want to stay as long as possible, I hope to retire at Barça.

http://www.sport.es/es/noticias/barca/2011...o/1054075.shtml

LOL nice suggestion!

But its true, our progress with Sanchez is very complicated, because City offered Udinese a hell lot of money. The difference is huge. The only reason we are still in contention is because Sanchez prefers us, and has no intention to join City. As a result we are being pressured by Udinese to offer similar kind of deal. I don't know what happened with the proposed Jeffren move. But I heard that he isn't impressed with how things are going. It's obvious that Jeffren wanna stay as well.

Yea the problem arises when Barca started working on a new package, which will be totally in cash. I'm afraid Udinese just compared ours and City's offer, and they demand more money from us. Now after failing to even impress the employers of Rossi and Sanchez, it seems like we finally have to move on to other targets. But the good news is, the name that pops out is the name I wanted ever since the treble season; JUAN MATAAAA!!!!

Jeffren in all honesty hasn't showed much for us. He's shown brilliance in flashes. Probably he has some Pedro in him, that he can sense the opportunities to create things, but his fitness really troubles him. Hurm, I can't even remember the last time he played full 90 minutes of a match, as he's been restricted to cameo appearance in Euro U21 too. When he starts he always get subbed out after around 60th minutes.

Another of this one by another Real reject wearing blaugrana perhaps?



In the meantime, as we are struggling to sign big names due to crazy pricing of players nowadays, we are set to sign Kiko Femenia from Hercules. IINM the deal will involve around 3ME+variables.

No we won't get Pastore because Italian clubs are expecting crazy deals for their star players.

And I'd prefer Cesc because of his DNA

Catalan press has been mentioning Mata as one of the alternatives should we give up on Rossi and Sanchez. Arsenal is bidding? Well I've heard various other clubs has put their bid for Mata, and all has been proven to be just tabloid materials. We just wait I guess

Barcelona would pay 27M+13M variables. Last discussions about variables. [source: sport]

Apparently this is our last offer. If Udinese reject it, most probably we will try Mata instead.

Belletti has announced his retirement officially. Surely he'll be remembered among Cules for this goal. I got goosebumps everytime I watched the video.



Thank you for everything Belletti!!

Allo bro, so you missed many things la kan? Did you follow the 'por que' rants?

Some report already suggest that Chelsea may consider hijacking our deal as well. Don't know whether its true or not la.

Ceara, a Brazilian club. He signed the contract just a week ago iinm. But his latest injury forced him to retire. Before that he was with Fluminense, didn't make much impact there either, also because of injury.

This post has been edited by matyrze: Jun 30 2011, 01:32 AM

Happy day indeed

Congratz Thiago!! You deserve it!

Quoted from Sid Lowe's latest article:



Meaning, Cesc can be thrown into first team action straight away, while Thiago is pretty much still under grooming process. I always prefer him to follow Pedro/Busquets route, rather than rushed route like Bojan/Giovanni took.

I think he did great. The problem is as you said, he was forced to be their Xaviniesta. He had to be the creative creator. Sure he has the creativity, but what he doesn't have is the consistency to do it for 90 minutes. With Barca he is allowed to drift out occasionally, because our midfield help circulate the ball around.

With Argentina his teammates ALWAYS look for him. He has never been a player who can dictate play for the whole match.

More good news

Fontas promoted!

FC Barcelona has informed Andreu Fontàs that he will be playing with the first team in the 2011/12 season. His buy-out clause will be automatically raised to 30 million euros.

As well as this raise, Andreu Fontàs, who has a contract until 2012, will also be automatically extended to June 30, 2013.

Andreu Fontàs, a regular in Luis Enrique’s Barça B, was temporarily promoted to the first team on March 16, 2011 to provide cover for Éric Abidal, who had been diagnosed with a liver tumour. Fontàs continued working with Josep Guardiola until the end of the season and appeared in eight games. But he had already made his first team debut in the 2009/10 league campaign against Sporting Gijón at the Camp Nou (3-0).

Andreu Fontàs joined the club from Girona in 2007. He played in the youth team for a season, and for Barça B for two and a half years before moving up to the first team.

http://www.fcbarcelona.cat/web/english/not...0704118272.html

Four Four Two has made Pep as their featured story in their latest issue. If you guys have the money go buy the magazine. If you're poor guy like me, click the link.

Pep Guardiola