English and Italian clubs monitoring Barça youth

Catalan sports paper El Mundo Deportivo claims that scouts of the English and Italian top clubs are keeping a close eye on the most talented players of the Barcelona youth academy.

English Premier League clubs Chelsea, Manchester United, Arsenal and Liverpool, as well as Serie A clubs Inter Milan,AC Milan and Juventus, would all regularly send scouts to Spain to watch the youth teams of Barcelona in action.

The paper drew up a list of the ten players who attract the most attention of the foreign clubs:

- Atlètic wing attacker Gai Assulin (17)
- Atlètic attacking midfielder Thiago Alcántara (17)
- Atlètic centre forward Rubén Rochina (17)
- Juvenil A attacking midfielder Jonathan dos Santos (18)
- Juvenil A defensive midfielder Oriol Romeu (17)
- Juvenil A left wing attacker Adrià Carmona (16 - picture)
- Juvenil A central defender Marc Muniesa (16)
- Cadete A midfielder Rafa Alcántara (15)
- Cadete A wing attacker Gerard Deulofeu (14)
- Cadete B midfielder Fernando Quesada (14)


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