Youth: Cameroonian youth player joins Inter Milan

Spanish football site Airfutbol claims that Barcelona Juvenil B midfielder Fils Paul Tina Tina (16) will join Inter Milan this summer. The future of the Cameroonian player, who played on loan with Catalan youth club DAMM last season, was unclear at Barcelona.

Tina Tina, who had a serious injury during the 2007-2008 season, joined Barcelona three years ago, arriving from the Samuel Eto'o foundation and will now follow Eto'o to Italy, where the style of football is expected to suit his qualities better.
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Youth: Barcelona signs Las Palmas talent Alejandro

Spanish football site Airfútbol claims that Barcelona has signed Las Palmas Cadete B attacking midfielder Alejandro Rodríguez (born in 1994).

Alejandro has travelled to Barcelona with his parents and his agent Abián Moreno to see the installations of the club. In August, he'll return to Barcelona to close the four-year deal. Real Madrid was also interested in the player.

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Youth: Barcelona signs Georgian talent Giorgi

Spanish football site Airfutbol claims that Barcelona has signed Vake Tbilisi attacking midfielder and Georgian youth international Giorgi Chanturia (16).

Giorgi had been invited to do a test with Barcelona a few months ago and the club immediately decided to offer the player a contract for next season.

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Youth: Barcelona signs Cameroonian goalkeeper

Spanish football site Airfutbol claims that Barcelona has signed Cameroonian goalkeeper Joseph F. Ondoa Ebogo "Ondoua", who will play with Barcelona Infantil A (year of birth 1995) from next season on.

Like several of his compatriots who are already playing for Barcelona youth teams, Ondoua, who took part in an international youth tournament in Spain last month, comes from the project set up by the Samuel Eto'o Foundation in Cameroon.

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Youth: Manchester United offer for Bolanos

Spanish football site Airfutbol claims that Manchester United wants to sign Barcelona Juvenil A central defender Alex Bolaños (19) in the summer.

The English champions would have offered Bolaños, whose contract expires at the end of this season, to join their reserves team while they at the same time would look for a team for his brother Toni, who is now playing as midfielder with Sant Andreu Juvenil A.

Bolaños, who made his debut with Barcelona B last season, wouldn't exclude an exit, also because the promotion to Barcelona Atlètic doesn't seem easy because of the number of central defenders in that team. The centre back, who also can act as right back defender, has been part of Barcelona's youth academy for eight years. Over the last two weeks, Bolaños has been training twice with the first team (read more here).

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Youth: Offer for Cadiz talent Suso

Cadiz fansite Cadistas Finos claims that Barcelona is interested in Cádiz Cadete A attacking midfielder Jesús Joaquín Fernández Sáenz de la Torre "Suso".

The site said earlier this week that Barcelona sports director Txiki Begiristain and the agent of Barcelona player Dani Alves planned to travel to Cádiz in the coming days with a firm offer to sign the player.

Spanish football site Airfutbol claims that Barcelona head of youth scouts Pep Boada has already contacted the entourage of Suso to make an offer for the player to join Barcelona.

Suso would be monitored by several Spanish first division clubs, among which Almería, Villarreal, Real Madrid and Sevilla. Cadistas Finos claims that Almería would have already made last summer a bid of 45 000 euro for Suso, but the offer was not accepted by third division club Cádiz.

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Barça B: Gai will get Spanish nationality soon

Spanish football site Airfutbol claims that Barcelona Atlètic wing attacker and Israel youth international Gai Assulin (17) will obtain the Spanish nationality in the next month (read more here).

This would mean that Gai, who's recovering from an injury, will from that moment on be available for the first team, which he wasn't until now because he isn't a European Union citizen. Although he hasn't yet played an official game with Israel's senior national team, it seems unlikely that the attacker will choose to play for Spain in the future.

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Difficult 'Spain or Venezuela' choice for Jeffren

Spanish football site Airfutbol claimed this weekend that Barcelona Atlètic winger Jeffren Suárez (21) had doubts on playing with the Spanish under-21 national team this week because this could prevent him from playing in the future for Venezuela, his country of birth.

Although Jeffren, who was part of the Spanish squad that won the European under-19 Championship in 2006, has played for Spanish youth teams before, participating in tonight's friendly game against Norway could mean there's no way back: once you turned 21 and you play for one country, you aren't able to play for another country anymore.

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Youth: Dennis Krol returns to Germany

Spanish football site Airfutbol claims that Barcelona Juvenil B midfielder and German youth international Dennis Krol (17) has decided to leave Barcelona because of a lack of playing time.

After being scouted at an international youth tournament, Krol joined Barcelona in 2004 but due to a series of injuries the player hasn't been making progress like the club expected and he will now return to German club Bayer Leverkusen, where he played before joining Barcelona.

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Gai not looking for an exit

Spanish football site Airfutbol claims that Barcelona Atlètic wing attacker and Israel youth international Gai Assulin (17) is not looking for an exit.

Asked about the rumours linking him with a move to the Enghlish Premier League (read more here), Gai said that he doesn't have plans to leave Barcelona. The player would like to continue with Barcelona because he is grateful that the club believed in him when he was an unknown player.

Besides that, Barcelona manager Josep Guardiola would have told the Israeli winger that he will start training with the first team once he obtains the Spanish nationality, something that would allow Gai to keep on switching between the first team and the B team (read more here).

The site claims that Gai has already rejected several offers from English clubs in the past years. In the summer of 2007, the attacker would have been very close to a transfer. Back then he visited the Chelsea facilities and was ready to sign but after his holidays in Israel he decided to continue at Barcelona.

British tabloid News of the World nevertheless claims that Gai, who is represented by player's agent Pini Zahavi, is not happy in Barcelona and would be ready to leave Spain, with London being his favoured destination.

Zahavi, who took Giovani to Tottenham last summer, is now hoping to succeed in persuading Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp to make an offer for Gai. English Premier League club Chelsea could also make a move in the January transfer window.

Catalan sports paper Sport claims that the entourage of the player thinks that Gai isn't getting enough chances at Barcelona. Zahavi would therefore have offered the player to Manchester United and Chelsea.

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Youth: Jonathan on his way to Tottenham

Spanish footbal site Airfutbol claims that Barcelona Juvenil A attacking midfielder and Mexican youth international Jonathan dos Santos (18) will most probably join Tottenham during the winter transfer window (read more here).

Jonathan, whose brother Giovani joined the English Premier League club this summer (read more here), would start playing for Tottenham's reserves team from January.



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Youth: Deulofeu has no plans to leave for England

Asked about the rumours linking him with a move to English top clubs like Chelsea, Arsenal or Liverpool (read more here), Barcelona Cadete A wing attacker Gerard Deulofeu (14) has said to Spanish football site Air Futbol that he plans to stay in Barcelona:

"I will not leave Barcelona. I didn't know anything about the interest of English clubs until I heard it through the press this weekend."

See a video of Deulofeu here

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Spanish football site Join Futbol claims that English Premier League club Tottenham is interested in Barcelona Juvenil A attacking midfielder and Mexican youth international Jonathan dos Santos (18), the younger brother of Tottenham player Giovani.

Tottenham manager Juande Ramos has personally asked his club to try and sign Jonathan for Tottenham's reserve team.

Spanish football site Airfutbol claims that an agreement couldn't be reached before the summer transfer window closed on Monday. Tottenham will come back in January and a transfer deal will most probably be found then.

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Barça B: Manchester United offer for Iago

Spanish football site Air Futbol claims that Barcelona Atlètic attacking midfielder and Spanish youth international Iago Falqué (18) has been contacted by Manchester United, that wants the player to join their reserves team (read more here).

Iago thinks that he hasn't been treated correctly by Barcelona and wants to end his stay at the club (read more here). If he's given the permission to leave on a free transfer, he'll most probably join the English champions.

Asked about the rumours linking him with Manchester United, Iago said to the site that he doesn't see himself staying at Barcelona and that Manchester United is in that case an excellent option: "I consider that club to be the ideal place for me to keep on growing as a football player."

Spanish football site Join Futbol claims that sources close the the current Champions League holders have confirmed that Manchester United are currently the best placed team to sign Iago.

Barcelona site Pelikano claims that, while Barceloa Atlètic coach Luis Enrique told Iago that he doesn't count on him for next season (read more here), other people within the club are having doubts on letting the player go.

Iago's agent would have receive several offers and clubs like Real Madrid and Liverpool would be ready to pick the player up in the last days of the summer transfer window if he would be able to leave on a free transfer.

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Barça B: No contract for test players

Spanish football site Airfutbol claims that the test period of Puente Castro Juvenil central defender Viti (18) and CS Chênois defensive midfielder Ibrahim Diallo (19 - picture) has been stopped and that the players won't be offered a contract.

The two players have been testing with Barcelona Atlètic for one week (read more here) but apparently couldn't convince coach Luis Enrique and the other members of the technical staff.

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Barça B: Valiente to Panathinaikos

Spanish football site Airfutbol claims that Barcelona Atlètic captain and central defender Marc Valiente (21) will join Greek club Panthinaikos on a free transfer.

New Panathinaikos manager Henk ten Cate knows the player from his time as assistant coach in Barcelona.

Catalan sports paper Sport claims that second division club Celta Vigo is also interested in Valiente and would like the include him in a deal with a Celta B player.

Barcelona site Pelikano claimed last week that Valiente had ended up in some kind of no man's land after his transfer to Sevilla B didn't went through (read more here), with the central defender not being allowed to join the first team nor the B team and with Barcelona not looking for another club.

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