Catalan sports paper Sport claims that Barcelona is interested in Liverpool defensive midfielder and Argentine international Javier Mascherano (24).Barcelona wants to strengthen the midfield because of the most probable exit of Barcelona attacker Gudjohnsen and the participation of Barcelona players Yaya Touré and Seydou Keita in the Africa cup at the beginning of next year.
Barcelona has been monitoring Mascherano for the last two years and the scouting and personality reports on the player are all excellent. Although the club realizes that a transfer will be very difficult, there's total unanimity on the qualities of the midfielder (read more here).
The first steps have been taken but Barcelona plans to move slowly. They have sounded out the entourage of the player, who wants to move to Spain and would be willing to force his departure. His agent is also rumoured to have offered him to Real Madrid.
Barcelona is nevertheless aware that it doesn't seem very likely that Liverpool manager Rafael BenÃtez will allow Mascherano to leave. Besides, Barcelona isn't ready to spend big for a midfielder this season, while the Argentinian midfielder would cost more than 25 million euro° if Liverpool would accept to negotiate a transfer, although Barcelona could also offer a swap deal including Barcelona left back Eric Abidal plus cash (read more here).
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