Barcelona Ready to rival Liverpool for Newcastle Full back Jose Enrique
www.insidefutbol.com/2011/02/27/barcelona-ready-to-rival-liverpool-for-newcastle-full-back-jose-enrique/38153/
I hope this is true. Jose Enrique REALLY IS GOOD ENOUGH for Barcelona. HE IS BETTER THAN Maxwell! HE IS the Best Left Back in the Premier League based on the merit of his performances this season. I'm sick of people who say he doesn't score goal and therefore stupidly reason that someone like Leighton Baines is better than him because he scores goals. A Left Back's job first and foremost is to DEFEND and Jose Enrique has done that better than ANY other Left Back in the Premier League this season. Jose's attacking play has been fantastic as well, such close ball control, surging beautiful runs/dribbles that Messi would be proud of, and his delivery from wide areas has been top class in recent games. He came within 1 tackle of scoring a 'Messi' goal a few weeks ago, would have been some goal.
I wish him well if he leaves. Newcastle United seem to have no ambition under our owner, and our manager recently said it will be at 3 years before we can hold on to our best players in order to sort finances (Our finances are fine after Carroll sale, LIARS) and that no one is unsaleable. Newcastle will likely see Tiote(Real Madrid), Enrique, Barton and maybe even Gutierrez(Man City) sold for a profit in the transfer market, because that is all our owner is interested in.
But again for those who doubt. I am not being a biased Newcastle fan, Jose Enrique has performed better than all other Left Backs in the Premier League this season, and is a perfect fit for Barcelona given the way he plays and his ability.
I hope he gets the move to Barca because he deserves to win things and play at the top level with a club that has real ambition.
Also he won't be too expensive for Barca because in the Summer Jose will have 1 year left on his contract! £6 million has been mentioned, but I reckon £10 Million pounds would get you him. Jose is easily worth £25 million, but because he contract runs out soon, you can get him for much cheaper than that. Would be a good deal for Barcelona.