Catalan sports paper Sport claims that Barcelona wants to sign a young left centre-back who has at least five good years left and could play alongside Barcelona central defender Gerard Piqué.
Several players who had the necessary qualities and with whom Barcelona has already been negotiating in the past, would for a reason of age have been excluded from the list of priority targets, among which AS Roma central defender and Brazilian international Juan (30) and Inter Milan central defender and Romanian international Cristian Chivu (28 - picture).
Villarreal central defender Gonzalo Rodríguez (25) would on the other hand be considered to be too injury-prone, while Liverpool central defender and Danish international Daniel Agger (24), who has also been followed, isn't an option anymore after he recently signed a renewal with the English Premier League club.
Read more:
Barcelona interested in Roma defender Juan
Chivu unlikely but not impossible
Barcelona interested in Liverpool defender Agger
Wednesday, 5 August 2009
Four centre-backs no longer priority list
Thursday, 19 February 2009
Barcelona interested in Roma defender Juan
Italian newspaper Il Messaggero claims that Barcelona is interested in AS Roma central defender and Brazilian international Juan (30).
Juan was on the verge of signing a contract extension with Roma until 2013 and could be using the Barcelona interest to get a better deal.
The Brazilian's current contract with the Italian club expires in 2011, although a clause allows the central defender to leave Roma at the end of the current season for a transfer fee of around 7 million euro°.
Italian sports paper La Gazzetta dello Sport has unconfirmedly also claimed that Barcelona is closely following Juan and would be willing to push hard for the Brazilian defender. With other clubs also trying to sign Mexès, Roma would prefer to keep the French central defender if one of the two has to leave.
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Roma's Juan alternative for Caceres
Looking for a central defender
Barcelona asked for now Roma player Menez
Tuesday, 27 May 2008
Roma's Juan alternative for Caceres
Catalan sport spaper Sport claims that Barcelona is interested in AS Roma central defender and Brazilian international Juan (29).
Friday, 9 May 2008
Looking for a central defender
With Barcelona central defender Lilian Thuram (36) on his way out this summer, Barcelona planned from the start to bring in a new central defender. The serious injury of Gabriel Milito has now made Barcelona speed up the search.
Both main Catalan sports papers think that at this moment the main options are, and in that order of rank, Deportivo La Coruña central defender and Argentinian international Fabricio Coloccini (26) and Manchester United central defender Gerard Piqué (21), like had been analized by this blog last week (read more here).
Piqué left the Barcelona youth academy in 2005 for Manchester United. Due to a lack of playing time, the player has been rejecting until now to renew his contract that expires in 2009 (read more here). British tabloid The Daily Mail claims that Manchester United wants to sell players like Piqué and Saha to raise more funds they then want to spend in the summer. It is said that Piqué wants to return to Spain.
Catalan sports paper Sport claims that Manchester United wants to renew the contract before letting him go on loan to Barcelona. Barcelona would prefer a permanent deal. With only one year left on his contract, the transfer fee is said to be around 5 million euro°.
Catalan sports paper El Mundo Deportivo claims that the Barcelona scouts have also been following two other players: AS Roma central defender and Brazilian international Juan (29) and Stuttgart central defender Matthieu Delpierre (27).
pep's opinion:
if you look at what we have now, there's mainly one thing lacking at the centre back: speed. don't know if coloccini or piqué really have that. and puyol, milito ànd coloccini: that's just too much hair!
Read more:
How things stand: Central defenders
Deal with Coloccini
Piqué tempted by Barcelona return
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