Catalan sports paper El Mundo Deportivo claims that Barcelona right wing attacker and Mexico international Giovani dos Santos (19) has reached a personal agreement with English Premier League club Tottenham (read more here).
Tottenham now hopes to close a deal with Barcelona soon. The first formal offer by the English club of 8 million euro° has been rejected by Barcelona. With Inter Milan also interested in the player (read more here), Barcelona thinks that they can get a higher fee.
British tabloid The Sun meanwhile claims that everything has already been agreed upon and that the Mexican attacker will move to Tottenham for a transfer fee of 15 million euro°. Inter Milan and Manchester City would have tried until last night to persuade Pini Zahavi, the agent of Giovani, to make the player change his mind.
Giovani would have met a first time with Tottenham officials in London back in January and would then already have been convinced by their proposal. Barcelona offered Giovani the chance to move on loan but the player has rejected that option (read more here).
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8 million euro =
13 million us dollar
6,5 million british pound
15 million euro =
24 million us dollar
12 million british pound
Somehow dissapointing if he really does leave... maybe he might return to play for Barca again? but if he does expect it to cost a whole lot more...
What are Tiki, the new manager ---whoever is 're-building' the team doing?
Ronaldinho, Eto'o, Deco and Gio are all virtually out of the door and Henry rumoured to follow. Considering that the market doesn't appear to be great this year (For all you Diego admirers, he has stated that he would stay at Werder for at least another year- So, he could come then- I think they see that most Brazilian Superstars goes through Barca- Romario, Ronaldo, Rivaldo, Ronaldinho), who is going to replace such players. So many points behind Real Madrid last season, missed out on the 'Champions League' final (despite dominating both legs) and now the team could only get weaker in technical ability, attraction among other things.
This 're-build' does not looks like it is going to work well as, as stated, the higher-ups don't appear to match the talent coming in as there is going out; replacing World-Class players with those that are unproven in lower teams and/or lesser leagues.
While Pique and Keita (who should not start WITH Toure) are good buys, and Alves and Ibrhamovich (who is set to be traded for Eto'o) would make the team strong enough to improve on last years finish, they are losing strength in depth and still have not covered to primary problem positions. Another (Xavi 7 goals, 6 assist) scoring midfielder [espn stats for Hleb: 2 goals, 7 assist and less than 30 shots]. Left wing foward --Silva is a good player but I doubt he could play there as he is a traditional left-footed left-mildfielder and not a goal scorer [stats: 5 goals, 5 assist, 40 shots in a season, 17 on target]. C.Ronaldo and other high scoring wingers can play in a 4-3-3, however, I doubt, despite his ability, he could. And, with Messi as the face of the team, they couldn't chnage the formation into a 4-4-2
Back to Gio, I think that he could be a great player, however, IF this is true it is a huge backwards step for him professional. How many could-be-world-class has moved from a team like Barcelona to one like Spurs and fulfilled their potential?
Pini Zahavi, may you burn in hell you piss of shit. It's not the first time he has tried to sell our youth products to the PL just to gain own profit.
I really hate this person.
Laporta and Txiki, who's next? Bojan? Gai?
Resign you idiots.
It would be really stupid to sell him because of a mediocre first season. Come on, give him a fair chance.
I agree that the main job done Pini Zahavi, which wants money, money, money. But calm down...Giovani is nothing special and 15 million for him is a fabolous transfer. Well done Txiki if that is true.
Also this move would be good for Gio because with is avarage technical ability he can shine in England, for Spain its not enough.
Good that Gio is leaving he wasnt Catalan so no one in barcelona liked him!The fan's hate you and alway's will barca4life!!!
What a stupid comment.
Iniesta isn't Catalan. Do you hate thim too? Messi isn't Catalan. What about him?
Do the players have to born in Catalunya for you to accept them?
Choose your words more wisely and stick to football opinions. You can criticise Giovani for his football talent, not for his origin.
Alas,the more this blog gets famous,the more ridiculos the comments get.
Getting about 15 million euros for him would in my opinion be a reaasonably good deal.As well, given that a number of rich teams are after him we could possibly recover the money spend on keita and pique(and thats just one player sold).
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