transfer of ZLATAN IBRAHIMOVIC as advanced last night & confirmed
this morning by Barcelona based daily “Sport” & TV news media,
although we haven’t as yet an official Club statement. Everything
occurred last night when Barça President Laporta & his team made a
stop from the Ukraine at Milan to have dinner with Inter President
Moratti where the operation was shut.
Beforehand two important things had to happen. Firstly, VALENCIA
CF rejected a 43M€ offer from Barça for Spanish International DAVID
VILLA, & SAMUEL ETO ´O accepted to leave the Club & be
transferred. With these two prerequisites in place FC BARCELONA
offered INTER MILAN 40M€ + SAMUEL ETO´O, plus the loan for one
year of its player ALEXANDER HLEB for the Inter Milan & Swedish
International ZLATAN IBRAHIMOVIC. The Italian Champion Club
accepted the offer with the authorization of its Coach Mourinho &
Ibrahimovic is said to have reduced his economic pretensions to be
able to land at “Camp Barça”. Now the final details of the operation
will be shut within the next 72 hours to make it all formal & 100%
water tight that will lead to an official Club presentation next week
at Barcelona of their "new" player.
All this means that DAVID VILLA has missed the second great
train of opportunity to play in one of Spain´s great Clubs. Firstly,
the operation shut with Real Madrid was foiled in the last minute by
Valencia, & secondly Valencia refused FC Barcelona´s offer of 43M€
wanting instead something above 50-55M€. In both cases, Real Madrid
& FC Barcelona had substitute plans & decided not to wait & be
“pushed around” to exercise their alternative operations in Karim
Benzema & Zlatan Ibrahimovic respectively. David Villa will be
steaming & angry with Valencia CF, but many suspect & confess that
the Spanish International was not pro-active enough in both said
cases & didn’t do enough to force the situation at Valencia, plus
many media sources blame the terrible management of his
representative Jose Luis Tamago, something that Villa should now
solve.
With Samuel Eto´o saying yes to the Inter Milan operation, FC
Barcelona avoids an explosive situation & avoids Eto´o turning up to
the beginning of pre-season training next Monday to confront his
now ex-Coach Josep Guardiola. Samuel Eto´o finishes his “golden
period” at "Camp Barça" in a not to glamorous fashion but at least he
goes to a Top European Team that is in Champions, a Club that will
pay him his economic pretensions & allow a new opportunity for
Eto´o to continue triumphing in World Football.
In the coming days we will receive more information of this lighting
transfer operation & receive the comments from Club directives &
from the actual players involved. Spanish Football gets another World
Class player that only lifts its level further & makes the beginning of
the new LIGA season more worthwhile & exciting for all Football fans.
2 comments:
What surprized me is that Barca still had to pay so much money despite sending Eto'o and Hleb (on-loan). I know Inter had valued Zlatan at 80 million pounds but the whole transfer market has gone crazy.
Anyway, will be curious to see how Zlatan does. He believes he is the greatest yet on many occasions, he produces nothing special. Not sure if he can match the amazing strike rate of Eto'o.
Should be an interesting La Liga season :) Can't wait for it to start..
that is true i dont see him handling the ball well, he's just a finisher like Ruud Van Nistelroy...as long as he gets them in back of the net right? haha
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