Catalan sports paper Sport claims that Barcelona has closed a deal with Villareal central defender and Uruguayan international Martín Cáceres (21).
Daniel Fonseca, the agent of Cáceres, has been in Barcelona since Friday (read more here) and has yesterday drawn up a final draft of the player's future contract with Barcelona sports vice president Marc Ingla and Barcelona sports director Txiki Begiristain.
In an interview with Catalan radio station RAC 1, Fonseca admitted the interest of Barcelona for Cáceres but said that an agreement between al parties won't be easy: "Barcelona called me and said that Martín Cáceres is a priority for them. We have held the first talks but Barcelona will now have to speak with Villareal. There are also other clubs interested, so we'll see how things will turn out. But which player wouldn't be delighted with a call from a club like Barcelona?"
Catalan sports paper El Mundo Deportivo claims that Barcelona will meet in the coming days with Villareal officials to discuss a transfer. Cáceres has a buyout fee of 20 million euro°, which Barcelona wants to reduce, and still belongs for 50 per cent to Defensor Sporting, his former Uruguayan club. Villareal, who doesn't plan to let the defender go, bought half of the rights of Cáceres last year for 1,5 million euro°.
Read more:
First meeting with Caceres
Monday, 26 May 2008
Deal with Caceres
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° 20 million euro =
32 million us dollar
16 million british pound
1,5 million euro =
2,4 million us dollar
1,2 million british pound
Ok, now I'm thoroughly confused. I thought half his rights belonged to his agent? Now the report says that half his rights belong to his former club (Defensor Sporting)? I assume Barcelona agreed in principle to the deal assuming they would only have to pay half of the original asking price of 20mil Euro? This story is getting more bizarre by the minute.
The first reports about the agent owing half of the rights were apparently false.
Villareal have also made it quite clear that they have no plans to sell Caceres and that he will only leave if his buyout clause is met in full. Suddenly I'm less and less confident that this deal is going to go through. I just don't see Barcelona able to afford him with other holes on the club yet to be filled. And prying him away from Villareal (who clearly do not wish to sell the player) could sour relations between the clubs as well. Let's not become like those unscrupulous jackals over at Real Madrid.
whats the point of wasting time and money on a central defender when you already have puyol,marquez,milito and pique(almost) in your ranks.the board members really need to start worrying about replacing the big departures like ronaldinho and deco.wasting their time and money signing players who are more than likely to sit on the bench for most of the season seems pretty stupid to me.
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