Barça have announced this lunchtime that as expected Giovani dos Santos has signed for Tottenham Hotspur for the next five seasons. A fee of €6 million has been agreed with a possible furthur €5 million to be paid in accordance with the number of games the Mexican plays.

Due to being out all day yesterday I was unable to bring you the latest news. First, in case you haven’t seen it, here is a link to Xavi’s fantastic goal for Spain against the USA on Wednesday, and also you can see Messi’s goal in Argentina’s 4-1 win over Mexico. Of the transfer stories the big news […]

 
As most of you will already know Barça and Villarreal have confirmed the transfer of Uruguayan defender Martin Caceres to Barça for four years. A big wad of cash (€16.5 million) goes to Villarreal for the 21-year-old player. From what I can gather Caceres has excellent potential but still needs a bit of polishing to turn […]

 
While some reports in England have recently suggested that Toure Yaya could be on his way to Arsenal, the player himself made no mention of any such move in an interview for Barça TV. Toure talks about Pep Guardiola and Barça’s new signings Seydou Keita and Gerard Pique and his recovery from his back problems. […]

Reports saying that Manchester City are prepared to offer Ronaldinho an incredible two hundred thousand pounds a week bring up a very interesting question of whether Ronnie is more interested in money or the beach. I have to say I can’t imagine him wanting to go to Manchester which is famous for its rain, and […]

I’ve had to look at a few dictionary definitions this evening: first to check what they say for “imminent” which I always understood to mean very soon, about to happen, or before you can say Jack Robinson. Then after finding the cute photo above I found myself wondering whether “ownage” is really a word or […]

 
While there is still no mention of this from Barça, AC Milan have announced the signing of Gianluca Zambrotta for the next three seasons. Milan will pay Barça a fee of approximately €8 for the defender who has played for two seasons at Barça. Zambrotta never quite lived up to his reputation at Barça though […]

Barça have used the option to buy José Manuel Pinto which was agreed when he arrived on loan from Celta in January. Pinto has signed a two-year contract though either side can break the contract at the end of next season. Barça have paid Celta €500,000 for the deal.

According to El Sport and El Mundo Deportivo Txiki Begiristain was in Germany yesterday to talk with Alexander Hleb about signing for Barça. Hleb is in Kaiserslauten with the Belarusian national team who are playing Germany in a friendly. According to the reports Txiki arrived at a verbal agreement with Hleb and now Barça will […]

One thing we can be sure of at the moment is that Barça are not going to stop with just the signings of Seydou Keita and Gerard Pique. With a big clearout expected there should be at least another four signings this summer and the press are full of the usual speculation. Of course for the […]