Ex-Barça: Maxi Lopez to Gremio on loan

Brazilian first division club Grêmio has yesterday officially announced the transfer of former Barcelona forward Maxi López (24).

The Argentinian striker joins the Brazilian club on loan for one year. The deal includes an option to partially buy the player at the end of the loan.

Maxi López joined Barcelona in January 2005, arriving from River Plate. In the summer of 2007 and after one year on loan with Mallorca, he left for Russian club FC Moscow. With Barcelona, Maxi López won two Spanish league titles in 2005 and 2006, one Spanish super cup in 2005 and one Champions League in 2006.

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Barcelona's worst eleven

More than 50 000 visitors of the website of Catalan sports paper Sport have chosen the worst Barcelona players of the last twenty years. This is the result:



Rüstu Reçber

Gbenba Okunowo - Philippe Christanval - Frédéric Dehu - Winston Bogarde

Xabier Eskurza - Fabio Rochemback - Dragan Ciric

Geovanni - Maxi López - Emmanuel Amunike



Other players who didn't make the final eleven were Robert Enke, Richard Dutruel, Gianluca Zambrotta, Mario, Manolo Hierro, Jari Litmanen, Gerard López, Ronnie Ekelund, Emmanuel Petit, Goran Vucevic, Robert Prosinecki, Angel Cuéllar, Christophe Dugarry, Xavi Escaich and Santiago Ezquerro.

2007-2008: The transfer fees

Barcelona proposed last week its economic balance for the 2007-2008 year. These are the official numbers of the transfer fees paid and received between 1 July 2007 and 30 June 2008.


TRANSFER FEES PAID
Milito: 17 million euro
Cáceres: 16,5 million euro
Piqué: 5 million euro
Pinto: 0,5 million euro
Gudjohnsen: 0,5 million euro variables (for qualifying for last season's Champions League)
Others (probably Barcelona B players): 3 million euro + 1,5 million euro variables


TRANSFER FEES RECEIVED
Deco: 10 million euro
Zambrotta: 9 million euro
Belletti: 5,5 million euro
Giuly: 3,2 million euro + 0,4 million euro variables (for Roma qualifying for last season's Champions League)
Maxi López: 2 million euro
Fernando Navarro: 1,5 million euro
Motta: 1 million euro