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Atletico midfielder Jurado was an option

02:09 Reporter: Editor 5 Responses

Catalan sports paper El Mundo Deportivo claims that Barcelona was interested in Atlético Madrid midfielder José Manuel Jurado (23) earlier this summer (read more here).

Barcelona sports director Txiki Begiristain would a few months ago have held a couple of meetings with the player's agent to discuss a possible transfer.

Atlético Madrid was reportedly willing to sell Jurado, who played last season on loan with Mallorca and whose contract expires next summer, for 6 million euro°. The deal in the end didn't go through.

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Ex-Barça: Luis Garcia to Racing Santander

23:52 Reporter: Editor 3 Responses

Spanish club Racing Santander has yesterday officially announced the transfer of former Barcelona winger Luis García (31).

The Spanish player, whose contract with Atlético Madrid expired this summer, will sign a two-year contract with the Spanish first division club after the meidcal tests.

Luis García came through the Barcelona youth ranks. After having played with Barcelona B for two years, he went out on loan to Valladolid, Toledo, Tenerife and again Valladolid, before being sold to Atlético Madrid in the summer of 2002. One year later, Barcelona used the buy back option and signed Luis García for the first team. After one year at the club, the Catalan left winger left for Liverpool.

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Barcelona looking for a club for Keirrison

23:34 Reporter: Editor 12 Responses

Catalan sports paper Sport claims that Barcelona is looking for a club for Palmeiras forward Keirrison (20).

The deal on the transfer would have been closed, although not yet officially announced, and Barcelona wants the player to leave on loan for one season to gain experience and then return to Barcelona next year.

Barcelona's first option was to try to include the Brazilian striker in transfer deals with Valencia (Villa), Atlético Madrid (Forlán) or Porto (Bruno Alves), but with the transfer of Ibrahimovic close and the possible stay of Henrique, this now seem less likely.

Barcelona is still looking to sign a midfielder and could try to offer Keirrison in that deal. If that doesn't go through either, the club wants to send him out on loan to a Spanish club, something Keirrison would personally prefer, or to another European club that will take part in the Champions League or the Uefa Cup and will give the striker playing time. Atlético Madrid would still be intrested in keirrison.

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Keirrison could be included in Bruno Alves deal

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Atletico president repeats Forlan not for sale

07:12 Reporter: Editor 6 Responses

Asked about the rumours linking with a move to Barcelona (read more here), the player's father Pablo Forlán has said in an interview with Catalan radio station Com Ràdio that he hopes a transfer will be posible:

"Third time lucky, they say. Barcelona already tried to sign him when he was playing at Manchester United and a second time a few years later, when he was at Villarreal. And now, it seems that they're again interested. I believe it could now finally become concrete.

He's very happy at Atlético because they've treated him marvellously, but every player in the world is without any doubt interested in playing for a great club like Barcelona. We cannot lie about that."

Atlético Madrid president Enrique Cerezo meanwhile repeated in an interview with Catalan radio station Ona FM that Forlán is not for sale: "I'm not worried about them paying the buyout clause. Everybody knows what our position is. We've already said that we don't want tot sell. No use to talk about it again. Laporta didn't talk to me about this. For me everything is clear. He's not for sale and that's it. It's a waste of time bringing this up."

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Barça turns again to Forlan...

00:16 Reporter: Editor 25 Responses

by Alfredo Relaño
for As

I have been told that Barça is again turning to the option of Forlán, and this doesn't surprise me. Valencia has decided to ask an impossible fee for Villa, 55 millions, something Barça is not willing to pay, as Madrid wasn't either. Forlán, on the other hand, has a clause of 36 millions, which is also a lot of money, but less. That's a sum Barça could pay. By squeezing a bit, but the can get there.

Villa has two advantages over Forlán: he's Spanish and he's younger. Forlán is 30 years old, an age which makes one think twice about the 36 millions, but he has always has taken care of himself and it's not very risky to predict that he'll have a long career. And he's at his peak.

The underlying problem is that you can't really count anymore on Eto'o. He has one year left, he doesn't allow a sale, he doesn’t want to renew, he doesn't pick up the phone when the president calls and the last thing we knew about him was a press conference full of insults by his agent. At the beginning of next year, Eto'o will take part in the African Cup of Nations, which will give him the chance to show himself to the world. At the end of the season, he'll look for a new contract, being free.

Behind him, there's only Bojan, whom we have still doubts on. For Guardiola, it’s a difficult situation having to start the season without a centre forward he really believes in. And this can now only be solved, at least in my opinion, by Forlán.

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Guardiola gives green light for Forlan

23:23 Reporter: Editor 21 Responses

Catalan sports paper Sport claims that Barcelona could sign Atlético Madrid forward and Uruguay international Diego Forlán (30) this summer.

Although Valencia forward Villa stays the main target, Barcelona wouldn't want the planning of next season to be postponed too much because of the uncertain situation at Valencia and has started moving for Forlán by contacting his agent (read more here).

Barcelona manager Josep Guardiola would have given his permission to go on with the negotiations. Guardiola and Barcelona sports director Txiki Begiristain wouldn't be worried by the player's age since reports suggest that the player is behaving as an exemplary professional. The buyout fee of Forlán is 36 million euro° and Atlético Madrid wouldn't be willing to lower that.

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Barcelona reopens Forlan option
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Case closed: Asenjo

23:42 Reporter: Editor 10 Responses

Real Valladolid goalkeeper and Spanish youth international Sergio Asenjo (19) will not play for Barcelona as of the coming season, like had been rumoured over the last months (read more here).

Atlético Madrid has yesterday officially announced the transfer of Asenjo, which has also been confirmed by Real Valladolid.

Asenjo will sign a four-year deal with the Spanish first division club on Monday. Atlético Madrid is believed to have paid the buyout clause of around 5 million euro while Atlético Madrid players Diego Costa and possibly Ignacio Camacho could also be included in the deal.

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Barcelona starts negotiations with Asenjo
Case closed: Zhirkov
Barcelona could keep the same three goalkeepers

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Atletico Madrid willing to lower asking price Forlan

23:22 Reporter: Editor 14 Responses

Catalan sports paper El Mundo Deportivo claims that Atlético Madrid would be willing to lower the asking price of Atlético Madrid forward and Uruguay international Diego Forlán (30).

Although the player's buyout clause is 36 million euro°, Atlético could be willing to close a deal for a transfer fee of around 25 million euro°.

Madrid sports tabloid As on the other hand claims that Atlético officials met last week with the player's agents Daniel Bolotnicoff and Pablo Forlán, his brother, to inform them that the Uruguayan striker is not for sale and will only leave if a club pays the buyout fee.

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Barcelona reopens Forlan option

23:22 Reporter: Editor 40 Responses

Madrid sports tabloid As claims that Barcelona has reopened the option of signing Atlético Madrid forward and Uruguay international Diego Forlán (30).

With new Valencia president Vicente Soriano expected to announce today that Valencia forward David Villa will not leave this summer, Barcelona would now want to pay the 36 million euro° buyout clause of Forlán.

Catalan sports paper Sport claims that Barcelona sports director Txiki Begiristain called Forlán this weekend to inform him about the recent events. The Uruguayan striker would be delighted to join Barcelona but wants the clubs to reach an agreement first. Forlán also doesn't want to publicly express his wish to join Barcelona, like he did three years when Barcelona in the end signed Gudjohnsen.

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New contact with agent Forlan
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New contact with agent Forlan

23:58 Reporter: Editor 13 Responses

Catalan sports paper Sport claims that Barcelona has reactived yesterday the plan to sign Atlético Madrid forward and Uruguay international Diego Forlán (30).

This happened after the news came that former Valencia president Vicente Soriano could return to the presidency on Monday and would in that case stop all outgoing transfers.

As a consecuence, Barcelona would have contacted the agent of Forlán, whose contract with Atlético expires in the summer of 2011, to inform him that they are again considering the transfer of the Uruguayan.

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Forlan back-up for Villa
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Forlan back-up for Villa

23:56 Reporter: Editor 84 Responses

Catalan sports paper Sport claims that Barcelona is still interested in Atlético Madrid forward and Uruguay international Diego Forlán (30).

The Uruguayan striker would be the back-up option in case the transfer of Valencia forward David Villa wouldn't go through.

Although Atlético Madrid would only be willing to let the striker go if the buyout clause is paid, Barcelona reportedly doesn't want to pay that fee of 36 million euro° (plus value added tax) and will try to lower it by including players in the deal.

Barcelona would be ready to make Atlético Madrid an offer of 25 million euro° plus the loan of two players: Palmeiras forward Keirrison (20), who is close to joining Barcelona (read more here) and Barcelona attacker and Iceland international Eidur Gudjohnsen (30), who would be willing to join the Spanish club (read more here).

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atletico, forlan, gudjohnsen, keirrison, sport |

Deal on transfer of Keirrison

12:01 Reporter: Editor 42 Responses

Catalan television channel TV3 claims that there's a deal on the transfer of Palmeiras forward Keirrison (20) to Barcelona.

Barcelona would have used the first option they had to buy Keirrison and paid a transfer fee of 13 million euro° plus 3 million euro° incentives. The Brazilian stiker would sign his contract in the coming days.

It's nevertheless not yet clear what the final destination of Keirrison will be since Barceloan is expected to try to include the player in another transfer deal, which means the Brazilian could end up at Valencia (Villa), Atlético Madrid (Forlán) or Porti (Bruno Alves).

(full story tomorrow)

Watch a video of Keirrison:

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atletico, bruno alves, forlan, keirrison, palmeiras, porto, tv3, valencia, villa |

Agent Forlan denies meeting with Barcelona

23:54 Reporter: Editor 4 Responses

Asked about the rumours saying that he was in Barcelona to meet with Barcelona sports director Txiki Begiristain yesterday (read more here), Daniel Bolotnicoff, the agent of Atlético Madrid forward and Uruguay international Diego Forlán (30), has denied in an interview with Catalan radio station Ona FM that there has been a meeting:

"I've came here because of personal reasons. If you say that I came to talk with Barcelona than you know more than me. Besides, I think they are trying to sign Villa."

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Txiki met with agent Kun Aguero this week

08:10 Reporter: Editor 31 Responses

Catalan sports paper El Mundo Deportivo claims that Barcelona sports director Txiki Begiristain met on Thursday morning with Arturo Canales, the agent of Atlético Madrid forward and Argentinian international Sergio 'Kun' Agüero (21).

The paper says that the meeting could mean that Agüero cannot be excluded from the list of possible transfer targets of Barcelona for both the centre forward as the left wing position (read more here). Canales, who is the representative in Spain of sports marketing agency IMG, is also the agent of Barcelona defender Piqué and could become the new agent of Barcelona striker Bojan.

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The report of Txiki (3) : 60 million for Eto'o

07:13 Reporter: Editor 17 Responses

Catalan sports paper Sport reports that Barcelona sports director Txiki Begiristain presented the board on Thursday a report about the current transfer market. The club would want to sign three or four players this summer (read more here).

Barcelona thinks the forward line is the line with the most quality in the current squad but that things can always be improved.

Wings
Barcelona would like to sign a player for the left wing. The asking price for Bayern Munich attacker Franck Ribéry (26) would have gone overnight from 40 to 70 million euro° (read more here). Because the club thinks that this fee is above the market price, the negotiations have been put on hold.

Manchester City left winger Robinho (25), who is not feeling comfortable at his club, could only come on loan because he's too expensive (read more here). Valencia left wing attacker Juan Manuel Mata (21) and Aston Villa winger Ashley Young (23) would be the alternative options (read more here and here).

Centre forward
Barcelona would have valued Eto'o at 60 million euro° and hopes that Manchester United or Chelsea will bid for him. A swap with Inter Milan forward Zlatan Ibrahimovic (27) is still not being excluded (read more here).

Atlético Madrid forward Diego Forlán (30) would fit the profile put forward by Barcelona manager Josep Guardiola but his age reportedly makes Barcelona doubt about paying his 36 million euro° buyout clause (read more here). Barcelona would believe that Valencia forward and Spanish international David Villa (27) will force his exit after the Confederations Cup and that in that case he will join Barcelona or Real Madrid (read more here).

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Atletico ready to listen to offers for Aguero

07:16 Reporter: Editor 30 Responses

Asked about the rumours linking Atlético Madrid forward and Argentinian international Sergio 'Kun' Agüero (21) with several European top clubs (read more here), Atlético Madrid president Enrique Cerezo has seemed to invite clubs to make a bid in an interview with Monaco radio station RMC:

"We will only start talking if we receive an interesting offer. Many people have spoken about Aguero but the truth is that Atletico have not been contacted by anyone so far."

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Atletico president dismisses Aguero rumours

23:57 Reporter: Editor 0 Responses

Asked about the rumours linking Atlético Madrid forward and Argentinian international Sergio 'Kun' Agüero (21) with a move to Barcelona (read more here), Atlético Madrid president Enrique Cerezo has told journalists that there's nothing to it:

"I'm convinced that Kun was making a joke the other day. He has a contract with Atlético for many more years, so I don't know what you're all talking about. Yesterday, one of your colleagues appeared with a Barcelona shirt with the name of Agüero on it. I don't think all of this is very serious.

Agüero, Forlán, Maxi and Simao are Atlético Madrid players. Who wants to sign them knows what he has to do: talk with the player to hear if he's interested and if he is, there's the buyout clause and that's it. There are two options to see Kun and Messi playing together: with the Argentine national team or with Atlético Madrid."

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Deal with Forlan

00:16 Reporter: Editor 0 Responses

Madrid sports tabloid As claims, based upon a undisclosed source, that Barcelona has signed Atlético Madrid forward and Uruguay international Diego Forlán (30).

Barcelona didn't want to confirm the rumour.

Last Thursday, people from the entourage of the striker would have rented a house in Castelldefels, a coastal town in the outskirts of Barcelona where several Barcelona players live.

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Aguero hints at Barcelona move

00:31 Reporter: Editor 0 Responses

Asked about his future, Atlético Madrid forward and Argentinian international Sergio 'Kun' Agüero (21) has suggested to journalists that he would like to move to Barcelona in the summer:

"I wish to leave Atlético if they don't strengthen the team so we can compete for the league title next season.

Real Madrid? I certainly won't betray Atlético because they have always treated me very well. If I would join Real Madrid, I would show a lack of respect towards Atlético. Barcelona? Well, hopefully Messi can take me to Barça, but it's a matter of waiting for what the club officials decide."

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Barcelona considering how to get Forlan

00:09 Reporter: Editor 0 Responses

Catalan sports paper Sport claims that Barcelona is interested in Atlético Madrid forward and Uruguay international Diego Forlán (30), to have a back-up for Barcelona forward and Cameroon international Samuel Eto'o (28) if the latter stays or to replace him if he leaves (read more here).

Barcelona would want to offer Forlán a three-year deal paying him a bit more than he's now earning at Atlético but doesn't want to pay the 36 million euro° buyout clause Forlan and is therefore considering other options.

A straight swap with Eto'o seems impossible since Eto'o doesn't plan to leave and Atlético Madrid could unlikely pay the salary Eto'o is asking. Another option would be to offer Atlético Madrid 20 million euro° cash plus a two-year loan of Barcelona forward and Spanish youth international Bojan Krkic (18).

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Bojan will not leave on loan this summer

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