Barça's Transfers and Rumors

[Egert]

It has been quiet about Cuadrado deal for some time now. Something is definitely going on, I can feel it with my Zubi feelings.

 

[JamDav1982]

It has been quiet about Cuadrado deal for some time now. Something is definitely going on, I can feel it with my Zubi feelings.

Not that quiet. Even today the press have been saying Barca are making one last bid and Cuadrado has told Fiorentina to make the move happen.

 

[linetty]

Close that Cuadrado deal already, I want the silly season to be over...

 

[Sunny Mir]

DeAndre Yedlin signs for Tottenham. Walker to barca......?

 

[PhilS]

It has been quiet about Cuadrado deal for some time now. Something is definitely going on, I can feel it with my Zubi feelings.

Barca has to buy Cuadrado. Not so much for this season as for after that. It's looking like Alves will continue through this season, but the list of players Barca signs to new contracts over age 30 is very short. This will be his last year. With the two year transfer ban looming, Barca must stockpile at this position.

Cuadrado will be coming to be more of a winger than a FB, in the new formation. That will also be the new role for Alba. Serious speed burners on both wings.

I'm trying to envisage the 3-2-3-2, prior to Suarez joining:

Ter Stegen/Bravo
Barta/Adriano Mathieu/Pique Vermailen/Mathieu
Busquets Masch
Cuadrado/Alves/Pedro Iniesta/Xavi Rakitich/Alba
Messi Neymar/Pedro

 

[KingMessi]

With Cuadrado or Piszczek, and the boys in Barca B (Campins & Godswill), we should be set at rightback.

 

[Trafalgar]

DeAndre Yedlin signs for Tottenham. Walker to barca......?

An english footballer in Barcelona

 

[linetty]

With Cuadrado or Piszczek, and the boys in Barca B (Campins & Godswill), we should be set at rightback.

What about Patric? I like him

 

[KingMessi]

What about Patric? I like him

I don't rate him as highly as the other two. But he can do well as a backup's backup.

 

[linetty]

I don't rate him as highly as the other two. But he can do well as a backup's backup.

 

[KingMessi]

I'm happy to be proven wrong by Patric.

 

[KingMessi]

BEIN Sports reports that Cuadrado to Barca is a done deal.

http://www.beinsports.tv/en-espanol...-barcelona/article/1r2m5ynx01oyr1ownlwix9jwvt

Well, then. Welcome Mr. Square.

Edit: Their source is Sport. Excitement fades.

 

[Jadentheman]

If true

If false

 

[Richard.H]

Damn I don't like that deal. I really don't understand why Lucho prefers Cuadrado so much.

 

[KingMessi]

I've done some digging, and it seems that Cuadrado only became a fulltime winger when he moved to Fiorentina in 2012. Before that he was regularly played as a wingback at Udinese. Feel a bit better about this deal now.