Barça's Transfers and Rumors

[instinct]

Villarreal is now asking Spurs to pay 50M euros for Musacchio at the insistence of River Plate, according to several sources in Spain.

I wonder why Zubi isn't going for him.....

 

[ss81bja]

This just makes me sad, why can't we get a good CB? We always get the shittest around and one of them is Vermaelen...

The reality is the market is harsh plus we are looking for a CB that "fits our profile" ie the market is very limited to us and we further limit it with what we are looking for. Then we complain when we go for Mathieu, Agger/Vermaelen. I don't mind the "older" options because we NEED CBs and at least they have experience on their side. If these "older options" give us at least two good years of service I would be satifisfied. Hopefully during that time a CB may emerge from La Masia or a a proper CB will be made available in the market.

 

[KingMessi]

I wonder why Zubi isn't going for him.....

Pssssssssshhhh. 50M is peanuts. Just give it to them.

 

[Flavia]

Villarreal is now asking Spurs to pay 50M euros for Musacchio at the insistence of River Plate, according to several sources in Spain.

That's the problem with 3rd party owned players... And probably why Barça never went for him.

 

[Ini8]

Villarreal is now asking Spurs to pay 50M euros for Musacchio at the insistence of River Plate, according to several sources in Spain.

Lol, must be due to the fact that he is owned by Villarreal (35%), River Plate (35%) and his agent (30%). I can't see Tottenham paying that for him, so the transfer might fall through.

 

[DonAK]

SSN reporting we've bid 12m for Vermaelen.

 

[CatalinR10]

so....are barca really interested in boateng ?

 

[Bertus]

Barcelona have definitely ruled out the transfer of Marquinhos. PSG insist they won't sell, Barcelona won't make further bids. [ser]

 

[Trickykid]

Aside from the obvious injury problems, is he really as bad as you guys claim? I mean, I have no idea myself, as I have barely seen him play last season, but recalling his early Arsenal days, he was widely regarded as a top defender. Did he completely lose it since then?

Don't bother to mention the fact that Wenger prefers others over him, as that could easily be attributed to tactical preferences.

 

[Bertus]

so....are barca really interested in boateng ?

No, but the good news is that we won't have a repeat of summer 2013.

Barcelona is stopping its chase of Marcos, so they will buy another CB. They have a month left to pick one, that's good.

 

[serghei]

What injury did Vermaelen have? If he screwed up his cruciate ligaments that's enough reason for me to pass on this transfer.

 

[Trickykid]

What injury did Vermaelen have? If he screwed up his cruciate ligaments that's enough reason for me to pass on this transfer.

He didn't. At least not as far as I see according to his injury history.

 

[Trickykid]

No

How do you know that?

 

[Bertus]

How do you know that?

Barcelona's board, Guardiola, Rummenigge, Boateng's agent who confirmed he didn't meet with barca etc etc. said the Boateng rumor was 100% fake.

 

[Trickykid]

Barcelona's board, Guardiola, Rummenigge, etc etc. Said the Boateng rumor was 100% fake.

Afaik our board didn't admit that publicly. It was just the usual "according to a Barça source", I believe.

And sure, the Bayern officials could easily have deemed him unsellable, but as we all know, that's not exactly reason for our board to give up on a chase.

Not that I believe for a second that we could get him, but I could easily see us being interested.