Football Transfer Rumours: Barcelona interested in Valencia’s Juan Mata
The Spanish football club Barcelona has shown interest in a number of international players in the recent past. The news comes as one of the best teams in the world is considering changing their line-up by inducting new talent to their team. They have already signed the famous Spanish and Valencia star David Villa who is on the road to win a golden boot award in the ongoing FIFA World Cup 2010. Villa has already scored three goals in three matches in South Africa which justifies that notion. The Spanish player is really happy that Barcelona has signed him and says that he will try to keep his goal scoring form intact.
Another rumour doing the rounds is that the Catalan giants are interested in Valencia’s winger Juan Mata. On the contrary, Mata has stated that he is not planning to move to Barcelona after the World Cup in South Africa. There were rumours that Barcelona bought the winger already and had signed him for a one-year contract. Barcelona had even announced the cash amount which they had paid to the Spanish winger, which was approximately sixteen and a half million pounds. He said that Barcelona did not even approach him and he continued his conversation by saying that he does not want to make a move to Barcelona or anywhere else and is happy with Valencia. His teammate David Villa however, is already a part of Barcelona and is going to join their training sessions after the FIFA World Cup 2010.
Quite recently, Barcelona has been trying to grab the attention of the media by buying the best available players in the world. They bought Inter Milan star Ibrahimovic at the expense of their own centre forward Samuel Eto’o, who went to Inter Milan as a “swap deal”.
Besides Ibrahimovic, Barcelona bought Valencia star David Villa who performed brilliantly in the last season and is planning on scoring more goals for the Catalan side when he comes back from Africa.
Cesc Fabregas, the Arsenal captain, has been really interested in the Barcelona side and really wants to sign for them. He has been reported time and again that he wants to make a move to the Spanish side as he was born in Spain and was in the youth academy of Barcelona. His father pleaded the Gunner’s president to “let his son go” after a dramatic speech that Cesc pulled off with Arsene Wenger, the Arsenal Coach. Although there have been no rumours about the signing of Fabregas, but Barcelona president agrees to the fact that they are making negotiations with the English club and wants the best for Fabregas and Arsenal.
Besides Fabregas, Barcelona is also interested in buying the Argentinean captain and Liverpool’s defensive midfielder Mascherano. According to sources, Barcelona is highly interested in buying the Liverpool player for $25 million. However, there are no confirmed news reports about the story. There was no comment about this from Mascherano’s side, but after the selling of the Catalan star Yaya Toure, who’s going to join his brother in Manchester City; Barcelona is going to need a defensive midfielder. Experts predict that Mascherano is going to be the perfect option for them. In other reports, Javier Mascherano has also been linked up with a swap deal between him and Esteban Cambiasso of Inter Milan.
For now, no one is sure about any of these rumours spreading around. Nothing can be sure until the FIFA World Cup 2010 is over, and the players have time for themselves to think about their future.
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