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.

Just a quick roundup of today’s news, I’ve had a long day at work and I ought to think about taking out my better half tonight. First story is that Barça have signed a 14-year-old wonderkid called Mauro Icardi. Born in Argentina but with an Italian passport, Mauro has played for the Canary Island team UD […]

After yesterday’s story about Cesc Fabregas the Catalan press have decided to really annoy Arsenal fans by running a story today saying Barça are interested in bringing Arsene Wenger to Camp Nou as a replacement for Frank Rijkaard. As I said yesterday, the papers need to write something and this week there is no midweek […]

 
This week the Catalan press have reacted as they so often do to a disappointing result: by talking about possible transfers. However, this week’s stories have more interest than usual as they refer to the recent “Webster Ruling” which could in theory revolutionize the transfer market as much as the Bosman ruling did in the […]

Regular readers will know I’m not one to do too many transfer rumours, we all know that some newspapers and websites will print anything for the sake of selling more. However, this week two top class forwards have once again been offering themselves to Barça. Sometimes, of course, players are just being polite when journalists […]