Rafinha dreaming of Barcelona

Catalan sports paper El Mundo Deportivo claims that, if a transfer of Sevilla right back Dani Alves (24) or Bayern Munich full back Philipp Lahm (24) wouldn't be possible, the alternative to replace Gianluca Zambrotta (31) could well be Schalke 04 right back Rafinha (22). The Brazilian is quoted as saying: "Signing for Barcelona, since always one of my favourite clubs, would be dream come true."

The paper thinks the market value of the player, whose contract expires in 2011, would be between 10 and 16 million euro (°).