With the end of the season drawing close it is no surprise that the Catalan sports press is full of stories of who Barça are going to buy and sell in the summer. El Sport headlined with the story of Kaka being a possible target, seeing as Ronaldinho and Zambrotta could both be on their […]

It’s not official yet but all the Spanish sports press are running the story that the decision was taken in a meeting of the Comision Delegada this afternoon for Pep Guardiola to take over from Frank Rijkaard as Barça’s coach at the end of the season. While I will be reasonably happy with the choice […]

The press have been going a bit crazy this week with non-stop speculation about the comings and goings at Barça. There has been a lot of talk about Jose Mourinho again as next season’s coach but today Marca claim he has not accepted Barça’s proposal to have him as coach with Pep Guardiola as his […]

According to reports in this morning’s papers Jose Edmilson is looking at a possible move to Villarreal. El Sport states that the player underwent a medical at Villarreal on Monday. The player finishes his contract at Barça on June 30 and is therefore free to negotiate with other clubs. Edmilson will be 32 on July […]

Barça and Milan are a long way from agreeing to a transfer fee for Ronaldinho. Reports say that Barça are asking for €50million for Ronnie and Zambrotta who would be included in the deal, while Milan say they are only prepared to pay €20million for the pair. It looks like it could be a long […]

In an interview broadcast today on the Spanish radio station RAC 1, Samuel Eto’o declared that if things continued the same and Barça didn’t win anything next season, he will look for a move abroad. Eto’o stated that he had reached the top in Spain at Barça but he wanted to win titles and if that […]

Barça have decided that one of the players they most want for next season is Lyon’s Karim Benzema. Txiki Begiristain travelled to Lyon yesterday where he met with Lyon’s Director of Sport, Bernard Lacombe, and he watched Benzema score in the 1-0 win over Metz in the French Cup.

According to both major Catalan sports papers Ronaldinho’s transfer to AC Milan is as good as done. Txiki Begiristain met Ernesto Bronzetti, acting for Milan, yesterday to discuss a transfer fee which is supposedly in the region of thirty million euros. Later Bronzetti met Ronaldinho’s brother, Roberto de Assis, to discuss personal terms, and in […]

According to today’s Guardian Ronaldinho’s brother and agent Roberto de Assis was seen at Manchester City’s ground before Saturday’s game with Chelsea. He is supposedly negotiating a possible transfer of Ronaldinho to the English club. The report says that City’s owner Thai millionaire Thaksin Shinawatra would be more than happy to pay Ronaldinho wages of […]

As we all know during weeks without a game the Barcelona press go into overdrive with transfer rumours. They nearly all come to nothing. However, there is no denying that the club will be working hard already on plans for next season so here is a quick resumé of this week’s stories.