More defensive problems for Barcelona as their young defender, Marc Muniesa, will be spending his time on the sidelines due to knee injury.
Barcelona recently suffered from another defensive blow as Marc Muniesa picked up a knee injury during the friendly game against Hamburg.
The young centre-back was already sidelined for most of the last season but this time round he is going to be missing footballing action for up to six months.
It is being reported by the club doctors that Muniesa has damaged his knee ligaments.
This means that the new coach, Tito Vilanova, is now going to be having even less options in the centre of defence as his first-choice centre-back, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Carles-Puyol-c8331, is also currently out injured.
Moreover, Gerard Pique has been playing for the Spanish national team, which means that playing him in each and every game could mean that he will also eventually get injured and miss first-team action.
As soon as Tito Vilanova became in charge of the Catalan club, he told the management that he wants two defensive players. He has already recruited http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Jordi-Alba-c19111 as a replacement for Eric Abidal, but there is still not a single player who can replace Carles
Puyol if he gets injured.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Javier-Mascherano-c18071 can form a defensive partnership without Puyol, but in case one of them gets injured, there is not a single natural centre-back with the Spanish giants.
Now with Muniesa also injured, Tito Vilanova will try and penetrate the transfer market as there are not many solid centre-backs up for sale.
The deal between http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Martinez-c24468 has already broken down and the Bilbao star will not be joining the Spanish giants during this summer. This means that Vilanova will now try and look for either younger players in the Barca B, or spend more money
on getting a star-studded centre-back, which might cost Barcelona a fortune.
There are reports that the Spanish giants are lining up a bid for Arsenal’s http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Thomas-Vermaelen-c35002, but no solid evidence has been there at the back of such rumours.
La Blaugrana will star the Spanish La Liga campaign next month, and they currently don’t have Carles Puyol available for them as he is still recovering from his knee injury.
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