Catalan sports paper El Mundo Deportivo claims that Barcelona was close to signing Genoa forward Rodrigo Palacio (27) last summer.
The Barcelona board reportedly wanted to pay a transfer fee of 20 million euro for the Argentinian striker, who then was playing for Boca Juniors and was recommeneded by former Barcelona player and manager Johan Cruijff (read more here). Barcelona manager Josep Guardiola would nevertheless have vetoed the transfer. Last month, Palacio joined Italian club Genoa for a transfer fee of 3,5 million euro.
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Monday, 10 August 2009
Guardiola vetoed transfer of Palacio
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wow, he's my hero now. What an awful signing.
Barcelona asks for him, Boca say he is the best Striker in the world and worth 20m. Genoa ask for him, Boca say he is an okay Striker worth 3.5m.
Whenever Barca ask for someone, he suddenly becomes the best in his position and is worth ten times his normal price. I hate it when crap teams think their star players are the best like Shakhtar with Dymitro or Depor with Felipe Luis.
We are the worst negotiators in the world. Both buying and selling.
The problem with Barca is that they highlight their desire, need, want for another club's player as well as showing their disfavor for their own. Other clubs/agents take advantage of this shortcoming, leading to those unrealistic asking price
because other clubs no that barca has a lot of money so they higher the price to get more and more out of barcas budget.
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