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News from England, from the daily “The Sun”, says that Premier League
Club MANCHESTER CITY has made a 26M€ bid for FC BARCELONA
midfielder TOURE YAYA (pictured below).
The English team wishes to attract the midfielder by also doubling
his actual salary to around 5M€/year. SFS doubts that the player
or Barcelona will accept the transfer. Toure is now a vital part of the
Barcelona “machine” & the player knows beforehand that he is already
playing in one of the World´s Best clubs
Written by STRIKER on January 6th, 2009 with no comments.
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The Barcelona based & pro Barça Sporting paper “Sport” publish today an
article that highlights the planification of FC BARCELONA, & in this
case, its forward line. Currently, SAMUEL ETO ´O & THIERRY
HENRY are doing the job, however the former with 28 years & offers
from half of Europe, & the latter with 32 years force some short/mild
term planning. To add to the uncertainty, Eto´o faces next year the
2010 African Cup were he will be with Camaroon & this will cause the
strike to be absent from Camp Barça for at least a month or more.
(courtesy of “Sport”)
Three names have been put up, three names the “Sport” says are
on the Barça agenda, three top class goalscorers to guarantee the
upfront firepower:
1. DAVID VILLA: Barça recently made a 35M€ offer for the Valencia
star. It was rejected. Real Madrid, Manchester City, Chelsea …have
this man on their shopping list as well.
2. BENZEMA: Barça has been flirting with the Olympique de Lyon
star all year. However, the player voices his preference for Real Madrid
who have the player down for next season as well. A bidding “war”
assured.
3. ADEBAYOR: The Arsenal star nearly landed in Barcelona last summer,
he was the planned substitute for Samuel Eto´o.
Stay tuned, SFS will keep an eye on developments.
Written by STRIKER on January 2nd, 2009 with no comments.
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According to the experts the below team line-up of FC BARCELONA
is experiencing the Best start to any season in its History. The 2008/09
season team is leading the Spanish League table with 41Âşpoints, 10 ahead
of second placed Sevilla, & in only 16 Rounds.
The season is long, will we see if they can keep up this increible pace.
Written by STRIKER on December 22nd, 2008 with no comments.
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Xavi Hernandez has signed a new deal which would keep him with the club till 2014. And if some club manage to convince him to move away they would have to sell out a whooping 80 million Euros as buyout clause. This ia a welcome relief for Barca who took sometime to ready this contract. This also effectively ends the rumours of Xavi moving out of Barca. Actually Guardiola had made it clear from the onset that Xavi is the most important part in his puzzle. Exact contract compensation is not known but it is rumoured that Xavi will become the third highest paid player in barca after Messi and Eto. Xavi has reitered his dream to retire at Barca. I know one person who would not be happy with handing out lengthy contract to players is Cryuff. But with the tough competition out there FC Barcelona have to shell out a deal which is better or on par with others can offer. It is rumoured that he will make 7.5 million Euros per year.
Xavi Hernandez is one of the most prized outout of Barca’s excellent youth system. Xavi made his debut in first team on August 18,1998 against RCD Mallorca. He quicly went to become an essential part of FC barcelona’s title team. Xavi is considered an ideal replacement for Guardiola, the current Catalan coach. Xavi has become a essential part of the Spanish national team. He was elected as the player of the Tournament at the Euro-2008 when an under achieveing Spanish side fianlly won a trophy. He has scored 29 goals for Barcelona and 8 for Spain; and created numerous goals for his team mates.
Written by Bibin on December 20th, 2008 with no comments.
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FC Barcelona once again got an easy draw compared to their opponents in the Champions League second round. FC Barcelona has been drawn against the French Champions Olympique Lyonnais. Like FC Barcelona Lyon is on the top of their respective League. When I say that Lyon would be an easy draw, it just mean that out of the all possible opponents Lyon would be the easiest (no insult to Lyonis meant here). It would be a Herculean task for Barcelona to get past the French Champion. They got quality players like Benzema, Juninho, Govou in their line-up. But I already metioned in my previous post Champions League Opponent that I would prefer to play Lyon compared to an Inter or Chelsea. Lyon would be playing a much more open game rather than the other two opponents and that increases FC Barcelona’s chances of proceeding to the next round.Last season FC Barcelona and Lyon met in the group stage; Barca won the home leg comfortaby but drew in the away leg. FC barcelona has scored 18 goals in their Champions League campaign and Lyon are not far behind scoring 14 goal; that makes this the most exciting tie of the second round.
Fc barcelona would be playing the second leg at home and that would be a serious advantage. The other tie ups are:
Chelsea v Juventus
Villarreal v Panathinaikos
Sporting Lisbon v Bayern Munich
Atletico Madrid v Porto
Lyon v Barcelona
Real Madrid v Liverpool
Arsenal v Roma
Inter Milan v Manchester United
There are some serious rivals being joined once again in thos ties, like the Mourinho vs Ferguson rivalry, Madrid would be facing Liverpool and to make things worse would be playing the second leg away; Villareal looks to have got a much easier draw - but when you put this into perspective that Panathinaikos quialified ahead of Inter; that makes thing tricky. Athletico Madird also looks to have a good draw against Porto but plays the second leg away.
Written by Bibin on December 20th, 2008 with no comments.
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Two months ago I used to dream of a day when Victor Valdes would really keep a clean sheet. Now Valdes have kept a clean sheets for three successive matches that too against the likes of Sevilla, Valencia and Real Madrid. This would have given Victor Valdes some breathing space and a temporary stoppage from being ridiculed as the biggest blunder of FC Barcelona. Victor Valdes have played an essential part in the 2-0 victory against Real Madrid. In many fans’ opinion including mine, he was deservingly the “Man of The Match” in the “El Classico”. Now that’s another surprise isn’t it? Who would have thought that in an “El Classico” edition the Goal Keepers would come out on top?
Victor Valdes at this moment may be in a very much confused state; that too without sipping a single shot of Tequilla. Then, you can’t blame him for that. Suddenly the world especially Barca fans have started to see the brightest side of him. Everyone is throwing praise at him from all sides. Do he really deserve this? His performance against Real Madrid was outstanding. If we have conceded the goal early then the outcome of the match could have been different. But then if you look at Valdes career he has been like this from the age he have started his first division career. Goal Keeper’s can be categorized into five types - Legends, Great, Good, Average and ‘Oh My God! How the hell is still there?’ types. The Legendary ones are the likes of Yashin, Banks etc. Kahn, Buffon, Cassilas, Chilavert, Lehman, Cech all should fall in the Great list. Valdes is the Good type of Goal Keeper - by ‘Good’ I meant that he will be good for the majority of the match but still is bound to make a couple of blunders. These mistakes in most of the time would unharmful and sometimes could be really harming; and at that point they need the defense to come to their rescue. That was precisely Valdes biggest problem. Valdes have covered the defense many times but you cannot say the same for Barcelona defense. Each time Valdes made a mistake, the Barca defense failed to cover him up. That gives the mistake an unimaginable proportion and you can also say that whenever Valdes makes the smallest of mistake he is sure to have conceded a goal. Ok, these mistakes don’t cover his certain blunders like throwing the ball in the path of players like Villa and Torres.
The problem for Valdes is that he is a part of a big club, big interms of both achievement and history. A club who can afford the best in the business and that makes Valdes life very difficult. Unjustified comparision with Buffon and Casillas are being drawn out at every juncture. FC Barcelona fans were crying for a better replacement for him not so long ago. But these fans never look into the reality of the situation. Chelsea is not goint to let Cech leave; even in the worst times Juventus held onto Buffon dearly and Cassilas moving out of Madrid and that too to Barca will happen when Armaegadon arrives; Van Der Saar will remain in ManU for rest of his career. Now with whatever options available I believe Valdes is the best option available. He is the best probably better than Casillas when it comes to one-on-one sittuation. I read an article in Goal.com saying that Drenthe did a charity by hitting the ball straight at him; tha’s ridiculous. Valdes have done this many times before. If Henry was so frustrated after the Champions League final of 2006, it was because of Valdes. Henry had two great chance to put the match beyond Barca’s grip but both the times he ran into Valdes. There were some stupid reasons given at that time also that Henry was tired as Arsenal was playing with 10 men. But no one remembers Valdes’ contribution everyone remembers Belleti’s winning goal and Eto’s equaliser.
Then Goal Keeping has been the most unthankful job in the soccer proffession. After a great season with two major trophies the football Journalist fraternity never thought it is good to have Casillas in the top three of Ballon D’Or. The purpose of this article is not to project Valdes as a great keeper, simply because he is not. But he is the best at this moment we can have. It will do him a world of good if the fans accept the fact that he is bound to make some mistake in a couple of matches. It will also do him a world of good if he don’t get carried away by the sudden praise, as I am pretty sure he will be commiting some silly mistakes pretty soon. Hoping heavily that the defense cover him up on his mistakes; I am stopping this article with only one prayer - “Valdes, don’t throw the ball straight to the likes of Villa, Torres etc. If you do You will be screwed buddy”.
Written by Bibin on December 16th, 2008 with no comments.
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Pretty much the only thing supporters of the Big 4 in England will agree on right now is that nobody wants a piece of Barcelona in the Champions League. And for Thirdsenal and Spartak London, it’s a very real Round of 16 possibility.
FC Barcelona is a fucking machine right now. Okay, not a literal fucking machine (which I’ve recently learned do in fact exist (and NOT EVEN CLOSE TO SAFE FOR WORK))… Where was I? Oh, El Clasico. Today is Crayola’s dream match up of the Blaugrana and the Meringues.
Barcelona comes in as easily the best team in Europe (okay, we might entertain an argument for Inter, but not really), and Lionel Messi looks the best player on the planet. He’s ever bit a good on the ball as Ronaldo but has the bonus feature of being able to stay upright.
Real Madrid stumbles into today’s match an absolute mess. They are 2-3-1 in their last six La Liga matches, including a lifeforce-draining loss last week to Sevilla where they rallied from 3-0 down to tie, only to see Arjen Robben get sent off before conceding the loser in the dying moments.
But after firing Bernd Schuster earlier in the week, Real Den Haag—and feel free to pilfer that one—brought in Juande Ramos, the man who guided Tottenham to the Carling Cup last season before piloting them straight into the relegation zone to start this season. He got shit-canned out of White (S)Hart Lane but Ramos was able to get a convincing 3-0 Champions League win over Zenit St. Petersburg, in a match that proved to be utterly meaningless. Now he’ll face an actual opponent.
If you are an impartial viewer this is a ‘no lose’ watch. If Barca totally outclasses Madrid, they probably won’t let up and will put a dismantling for the ages on them. Barca are probably looking for a bit of revenge from last season, and they know that with a win tomorrow they can effectively kill any chance of Madrid winning La Liga. If Madrid wins, it’ll will be an absolute shocker (the match is at the Camp Nou). Anything close and this has the capacity to be a harbinger of the apocalypse. Isn’t hyperbole awesome?
If I can subtract from 12, kickoff seems to be at 4 on the East Coast. Find a bar with GolTV and start drinking. Heavily. Might I recommend Voll-Damm (as in Fall Down) if they serve it anyplace here in the US?
Written by Darkvader on December 13th, 2008 with no comments.
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Historic games between FC BARCELONA & REAL MADRID, both cases
5-0 for each side. Tonight at 22.00 another chance to send the “enemy”
home with their tail between their legs.
Will it be a repeat of this?
FC Barcelona 5 – Real Madrid 0
Can Real manage against all odds do this again?
Real Madrid 5 – FC Barcelona 0
More likely the first option, however anything is possible in this
match. Good luck to both & may the better team win.
Written by STRIKER on December 13th, 2008 with no comments.
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“El Clasico”, the big one, the “derby” between FC BARCELONA &
REAL MADRID: Saturday at 22.00. Real Madrid visit Barça 9 points
behind & in turmoil, will they be able to get out alive?
Thanks to daily “Sport”, here are the possible line ups of both sides:
SFS prediction: a draw, as history tells us. However, Barça is BURNING
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Written by STRIKER on December 12th, 2008 with no comments.
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FC Barcelona is destined to have a tricky opponent in the first knock-out round of the Champions League. Since FC Barcelona has topped the group they will be playing one of the team which came second in their respective froup. But that is no sigh of relief as the potential opponents of Barca are Arsenal, Inter Milan, Lyon and Chelsea. Now that’s pretty tough. I would personally like to have Lyon facing us rather than any of the other team. BUt if history is taken into consideration, this could turn out to be yet another Mourinho versus FC Barcelona match.
Real Madrid who is Barca’s next opponent in the League did play well and demolish a Zenit team. We have seen many times that a change of manager works wonder atleast in short term and hence the team should take the Real Madrid match more seriously. Even with all their apparent problems and injuries nobody will deny their resolve. They have grinded many results with astonishing come back this season and it would be good for Barcelona to take them very seriously. The recent statements regarding this made by many players sounds good; everyone of them want revenge for the twin loses of last season. It seeems everyone in the squad is ready to put that extra effort to avenge that defeat.
Written by Bibin on December 11th, 2008 with no comments.
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