Today Catalan sports paper Sport gives a global analysis of the Barcelona transfer activity for next summer. In five episodes we will bring this story to you.
At the back, Barcelona is looking to replace Italian full back Gianluca Zambrotta (31), who will leave for AC Milan, and French central defender Lilian Thuram (36), whose contract expires in June and won't be renewed.
For the right back positon, three names are on the Barcelona list: Sevilla right back Daniel Alves (24), Bayern Munich full back Philipp Lahm (24) and Bayern Munich right back Willy Sagnol (30). While Barcelona doesn't seem willing to pay up to 30-35 million euro for the Brazilian, they would already have found a pre-agreement with the two Bayern defenders.
For the centre defence position, Barcelona is mainly considering two options: Racing Santander defender Ezequiel Garay (21) and Recreativo Huelva defender Martín Cáceres (20). The Uruguayan central defender is only playing on loan with Recreativo and is owned by Villareal. Espanyol defender Daniel Jarque (25) has also been followed.
(you can read the second part of this story later today, the third and fourth part will be published tomorrow, the last part on Saturday. The five episodes are: 1. Defence, 2. How it works, 3. Midfield, 4. Marital status, 5. Attack)
Thursday, 13 March 2008
The search of Txiki (1) : Defence
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Note: the article says Barcelona sports director Txiki Begiristain doesn't like the idea of two central defenders having the same nationality playing together and that is why he considers bringing in another guy than Garay or Caceres to play alongide Milito. That's not totally correct since Caceres is Uruguayan and not Argentinian.
I would like to see Daniel Alves in Barca, for me the best possible replacement for Zambrotta. As for the central defender, I think we should snap Garay. This guy is great but if we would buy Jarque I will not complain too. :-)
Anythings else? I think you're a big spender wo100sest... ;-)
Anyway, I'm really curious what will happen, who will come and go. Will be an interesting transfer period.
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