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Barcelona’s dream team

on August 23, 2011 None comments

Barcelona presented this year team in the Gamper Trophy in the game against the Italian team Napoli. The Catalans have made a real show and won 5-0 in front of 78,000 spectators, wanting for everyone to see that they are one of the best team in the world.

The party started with the new acquisition of Barcelona, ​​Cesc Fabregas. The midfielder from Arsenal scored, in minute 26, completing a pass coming from Adriano. Keita, Pedro and a double from  Messi (67 and 77) have made the Catalan fans to wait for their next season as favorites to dominate European football.

FC Barcelona: Pinto, Montoya, Fontás, Piqué, Adriano, Keita, Thiago, Iniesta, Kiko Femenía, Cesc, Villa.

Substitutes: Dos Santos, Abidal, Bartra, Sergio Busquets, Xavi, Sergi Roberto, Cuenca, Messi, Pedro

Napoli: De Sanctis, Campagnaro, Cannavaro, Britos, Maggio, Dzemali, Inler, Dossena, Lavezzi, Hamsik, Cavani.

Substitutes: Rosati, Grava, Arónica, Victor Ruíz, Donadel, Lucarelli, Zuñiga, Santana, Mascara.

The match was the last opportunity for Guardiola and Mazzarri to see how the team is working before the start of the new season. And, after this game, we all can say that, it’s working just fine. Let the goals flow!

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Anzhi takes all

on August 22, 2011 None comments

Russia is a big country famous for vodka, KGB and other things. But now, they are coming strong from behind in the football domain trough a team that started to buy all the stars from the top teams in Europe.

For the moment, Anzhi’s next target is Dani Alves, the Brazilian defender from Barcelona, for who is willing to pay between 35 and 40 million euros. Russians try to attract Guardiola’s player with a salary of 15 million per year, 5 less than actually they are giving Eto’o.

Suleiman Kerimov, the sponsor of Anzhi, ranks in the top 118 richest people in the world. At Anzhi also plays Roberto Carlos, Yuriy Zhirkov and they recently signed with Inter’s striker, Samuel Eto’o which is the the highest paid player in the world with a salary of 20 million euros per year!

The only inconvenient in Dani Alves case is that he has a contract with Barca until 2015 and has a termination clause of 150 million euros, which decreases with 25 million euros from season to season.

If they will pay so Alves could play for them, they could be an important opponent for a lot of teams. Though, Barcelona is an important team and Alves is a key player in their game so a move it’s almost impossible.

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Murinho, angel and demon

on August 21, 2011 None comments

Starting every time like a game from another galaxy, the last El Clasico brought shame on the field for both team regardless the result. The war between Real Madrid and Barcelona is well known but this year it took a wrong turn.

Real Madrid coach is destroyed after everything he did at the Nou Camp on Wednesday. Portugal has put his finger in the eye of Guardiola’s second, humiliating him and then saying he did not know who’s “Pito, Tito that!” and continued by doing signs to Messi and Alves that they smell bad.

The papers from Spain write that Mourinho complained to his family and to close ones about him, about his behaviour, telling them that he feels very bad because the image that remained after the last El Clasico it’s not one to remember.

In this scandal it’s not involved just Murinho because when is war, you have at least two opponents. So on the other side, Messi did not stop just at “shush” to Murinho in the match against Real. Barcelona star would spit at Mourinho and colleagues on the bench, every time he approached the guests bank from Madrid.

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Barcelona takes Fabregas, finally

on August 13, 2011 None comments

It looks that Barcelona’s prayers have a positive effect. After long negotiation, Fabregas and Nasri have green lights. Arsene Wenger should receive 60 mill pounds after deciding that he is prepared to sell Cesc Fabregas and Samir Nasri.

Barcelona returned yesterday with a new offer for Fabregas that, including add-ons, is worth around 35 mill pounds. They hoped for more, but there is a feeling on both sides that one of the longgest running transfer soap-opera is finally coming to a stop.
The other player in talking, Samir Nasri is very close in signing with Manchester City.

If the transfer will be on, Arsenal would get for their player around 23 mil pounds. The chances for Nasri departure are very high because he is in the last year of contract and if they won’t sell him now, next year Nasri could go for free.

Althoug these looks like a good deal financially speaking, won’t this affect the results? Former Manchester United defender, Gary Neville said: “If they lose Fabregas and Nasri, will they finish in top four? If they lose those players and don’t replace them I would be incredibly surprised to achieve that!“.

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Neymar can chose

on August 3, 2011 None comments

Many people began to ask if he is that of a good player when all these clubs are fighting for him. Neymar went from an unknown to the most desired star. A player that caught two of the best clubs in his net and plays with them like with two balls.

Adriano, Barcelona’s defender and colleague at the same time at the national team of Brazil with Neymar, said in a press conference that he spoke with him during a workout about Real and Barca and about the fact that he is wanted in the lot.

“ I talked to Neymar during training. I wonder who will choose between Barcelona and Real and told me he did not know yet, and anyway he can’t tell anyone. A move at Barcelona would be a nice transfer” said Adriano.

Neymar is very close to Real, the press in Spain has wrote in the past weeks about a transfer of 45 million, but the Brazilian player wants to come to Spain only in January, which doesn’t seems to please Mourinho.

A player worth that amount of money must be used during the entire season. And now, Neymar isn’t able to deliver.

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