i think higuain is not consistent after world cup

so has it become official yet bout sanchez joinin us?

Barcelona agree Sanchez deal

£27 millionn plus add-ons..

Add-ons means?

Barça sign Alexis Sánchez

Udinese and FC Barcelona have reached an agreement on the transfer of Alexis Sanchez. The cost of the deal is 26 million Euros with added variables of 11.5 million.

The player is due in Barcelona this weekend. Medical tests and the signing of the contract, which is for five years, will take place on Monday.

The 22 year old Chilean player is coming to Barça from the Italian club Udinese, where he’s played for the last three seasons. Last season he was voted best player in Serie A, after scoring 12 goals in 31 games.

This summer (of 2011) he’s been playing in the Copa America for his country’s national team, who were eliminated in the quarter-finals by Venezuela. Alexis played a total of four games in which he scored 1 goal and where he was chosen MVP in two of the matches.

Dazzled in Italy

After his debut in the 2008/09 season with Udinese, where he played 95 games, the last two seasons have been the most prolific in terms of his play and goals. Last season he scored 12 goals, 4 of them in the same game, and has been sought by the best teams in the world. However, he has been strongly committed to playing for Barça.

http://fcbarcelona.com/web/english/noticie...0720118483.html

Welcome Sanchez..
Next : Cech? 

Bojan, transferred to AS Roma

FC Barcelona and AS Roma have reached an agreement for the sale of Bojan Krkic for 12 million euros. The player will be giving a press conference at 13.30 in the Ricard Maxenchs pressroom at the Camp Nou.

The Italian outfit will pay 12 million for the player and the agreement includes an obligatory repurchase clause to be exercised by FC Barcelona at the end of the 2012/13 season, for a cost of 13 million.

This purchase can be blocked by AS Roma, but in such a case the overall cost of the transfer will rise to 40 million euros.

http://www.fcbarcelona.cat/web/english/not...0712118387.html

me too. i really hope he`ll come back as a better player one day.

what are you, Spanish? Catalan? can u read Spanish? read Mundo Deportivo, Marca, etc then..

ESPN basically an English media. what are you expecting?

life is fair u know..

im not talking about writing more stories about other countries or teams from a certain country.
i was talking about double standards.

berita harian/kosmo must publish more news from other countries like singapore,philipine or thailand instead of local@malaysia news?
i presume that this is what you meant
kosmo=espn star
spore=other leagues.

so espnstar should write more about LOCAL news?
what is local? where?
are you saying because "espnstar" is an English based news portal and it shouldn't write more stories about other leagues?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/ju...ted-samir-nasri
tapping up?

Was driving back from kepong and i saw a huge Gerard Pique billboard. He's young, handsome and now become dominant in barca's defence. I sound so gay LOL.

Barcelona report smaller pre-tax loss than expected

MADRID, July 26 (Reuters) - Barcelona made a smaller loss than expected last season and are confident of returning to profit in the 2011-12 campaign after two years of deficits, vice-president for economic affairs Javier Faus said on Tuesday.

La Liga

The Spanish and European champions posted a pre-tax loss of 9.3 million euros ($13.5 million) in the year to the end of June, less than half the 21.4 million euros expected and down from 83 million euros in the year-earlier period, Faus said.

Winning the Champions League, the club's new sponsorship deal with Qatar Foundation, a strong turnout at the Camp Nou stadium and a surge in visitors to the club's museum had helped trim the deficit, he added.

"Our obligation is to make a profit from next season and we will do that," he said. "For the first time in two years we will present a budget that foresees profit."

In a separate statement on their website (www.fcbarcelona.cat), Barca said the sales of players Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Dmytro Chygrynskiy and Martin Caceres for much less than they cost had contributed to losses of 44.2 million euros, without which the club would have posted a pre-tax profit of 33.5 million.

Operating income rose to 473.4 million euros, an increase of 14 percent compared with the 2009-10 season, while costs were up 10.4 percent to 472.6 million euros, made higher by win bonuses to players following the club's domestic and European successes.

Net debt fell to 363.7 million euros from 430.6 million.

http://football.uk.reuters.com/leagues/pri...6/LDE76P1OJ.php