FC BARCELONA TRANSFER GOSSIP 2010 | OZIL ROBINHO MASCHERANO?

SPANISH FOOTBALL Clubs keeps working away for next season while the World Cup takes all the spotlight. After surfing the web & checking the Spanish Sports press I pick out these news pieces that although enter the rumour category they should´nt surprise anyone. The South African World Cup is afterall the biggest showcase of “Football Product” & German 21 year old International midfielder OZIL has apparently caught the eye of FC BARCELONA. According to English newspapers – picked up locally by the Barcelona Sporting papers – FC Barcelona has shown interest & join other Clubs Chelsea FC, Arsenal & Manchester City in attempting to get the young palyer over to Barça.

Local Spanish daily “AS” even gives details of the offer: 2 players Hleb & Henrique plus offer WERDER BREMEN a one year loan of Ozil. That is, Barça buys now & allows the youngster to continue developing his Football at his current Club to later incorporate into the Barça squad for the 2011- 2012 season.

Staying with FC BARCELONA & the transfer gossip circulating the European market, the Spanish Club has apparantly made MANCHESTER CITY A 22M€ offer for Brazilian International ROBINHO. Plus FC BARCELONA has made a preliminary offer of 25M€ to LIVERPOOL FC for Argentine International midfielder JAVIER MASCHERANO. Apparently the player is determined to play only for Barça if his current Club favours the move due to their economic difficulties.

Therefore stay tuned for developments, as these “news flashes” are just RUMOURS & SPECULATIONS; try keeping all this in mind before getting too excited with these reports. By the way, if FC Barcelona is making offers for Robinho, what about the reported almost shut transfer of Valencia CF & Spanish International Juan Mata? Tweet

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IBRAHIMOVIC - ROBINHO SWAP OFFER?

While IBRAHIMOVIC hangs out next to a swimming pool in Miami on holidays, ROBINHO is concentrated with the Brazilian National Team in South Africa awaiting the World Cup to kick off. What both do however share & have in common is that neither of their respective Clubs wish them back for next season. Even though FC BARCELONA says that Ibrahimovic is not on sale, the incorporation of Spanish International striker David Villa tells you a different thing. The Club has "unofficially" priced the Swede at around 50M€ which is a bit steep except if you can find an interesting financial formula.

MANCHESTER CITY & their Italian Coach Mancini would be happy to have Ibrahimovic at the English Club & again working with his old Coach. They also have Robinho who was on loan at Brazilian Club Santos until recently & wish to get him out of Manchester City. The English Club knows that Barça don’t want Ibrahimovic, that Barça are looking for a left wing attacker & that Barça attempted last season to sign Robinho. AHA, THE ANSWER! A proposed swap between ROBINHO – IBRAHIMOVIC that would “kill” two birds with one stone.

But hold on, its not so easy. FC Barcelona celebrates Club Presidential elections next month & the new President & his team may not wish to sign a “problematic” Robinho. Plus the new incoming Presidential team may want to talk with Barça Coach Guardiola to reconfirm what he thinks & speak to Ibrahimovic to see what he feels about it all.

Stay tuned! Meanwhile, imagine that Robinho has an outstanding World Cup with lots of goals & dazzling “effects”? Will Manchester City wish to swap? Ahhh Football, everyday you learn something new :o) Tweet

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VIDEO OF SPECTACULAR ROBINHO GOAL FOR SANTOS

The ex Real Madrid Brazilian player ROBINHO, now on loan from
Manchester City at SANTOS, scored this outstanding goal in his last
game that is worth a place here for all the readers.

Watching this one wonders why hasn’t the player been able to give
his best at a consistent level at his former Clubs. In fact, Robinho has
commented to local media that he forced his departure from Real
Madrid & this could have been one of his biggest career mistakes.

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ROBINHO TO BE LOANED TO FC BARCELONA?

According to Catalonian based TV channel “TV3” & via its Sports News,
MANCHESTER CITY player ROBINHO will be loaned out to FC
BARCELONA next January when the “Winter Market” transfer
window opens. Their sources were not said, thus it remains as
speculation.



















The rumours have been ripe for days with a story alleging that
Barça was willing to pay 35M€ for a straight operation. Added to
this, news from England claims that Robinho has been pressuring
his Club seeing that he hasn’t a regular place in the current
Manchester City team & has not adapted to English life.

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FC BARCELONA: CESC FABREGAS & ROBINHO 2010?

Barcelona based Sporting daily “Mundo Deportivo” adds wood to the
already burning CESC FABRAGAS fire & transfer rumours. According
to the daily the Arsenal Captain along with MANCHESTER CITY
player ROBINHO are the prime FC BARCELONA objectives for next
season. It has been published that Barça has a “pre-agreement”
with the representative of Cesc Fabregas, while Robinho wishes to
leave Man City as has been indicated by his continued comments
from England.

However, FC Barcelona will be celebrating Presidential elections next
year & this may influence this scenario. The candidates will be using
“big names” to attract votes & their election promises will need to
be looked at closely. No doubt there will be interesting times &
stories ahead at "Camp Barça" as the election campaign heats up.

Stay tuned!

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FC BARCELONA INTERESTED IN ROBINHO. YOU MUST BE JOKING

Have you ever received the answer to a joke with another joke?
This is what has apparently happened to FC BARCELONA when
they “tested” the waters of the MANCHESTER CITY Camp in
reference to their Brazilian International ROBINHO. According to
English papers & pick up here locally by Spanish daily “AS”, the
Spanish Club put in an offer of 17M€ ( when Manchester City
paid 40M€) & Manchester City answered OK if Barça gives them
MESSI. SFS presupposes that each side were laughing with tears.

Humour aside, FC Barcelona via its Coach Guardiola is very interested
in gaining the services of Robinho & the Brazilian wishes very much
to return to Spain seeing he is not having (or adapting himself) a good

time neither in England nor with his team. Barça see Robinho as the

natural substitute for Thierry Henry, who some speculate will be the

“next Eto´o” next season as Guardiola sees the Frenchmen days at

Barça coming to an end. So much so, that Henry could enter into a

hypothetical transfer operation if the Robinho option gains credibility,

although the Frenchmen wishes to play in the United States after he

finishes contract with Barça.

The transfer market window opens this Winter on the 1st of January

& commentators speculated that if Robinho keeps spending more

time on the bench &/or FC Barcelona has “hiccups” by then – either

defeats or injury to Henry – that efforts will be increased to perhaps

get the Brazilian over before next season. If this is to be true, both

Clubs will have to stop joking, sit down to serious examine their

options & transfer price figures.

Stay tuned.

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THE ROBINHO SHOW

At times SFS gets out of its Spanish Football & Sports boundaries to
feature videos that are universal in their appeal & of interest to its
readers supposing beforehand that they are not only Spanish Football
fans but ultimately Football lovers on the whole.

Found this video of Brazilian International & Manchester City player
ROBINHO doing his thing while training in South Africa at the FIFA
Confederations Cup. Enjoy, its fun, the guy enjoys his sport:

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REAL MADRID: ROBINHO GOES TO MANCHESTER CITY

It´s the bomb news straightout of local Sports dailys "Marca"
& "AS", with little time to go before the shut of the transfer period,
REAL MADRID has agreed to transfer its Brazilian ROBINHO
to MANCHESTER CITY.

The offer from Manchester City was higher than Chelsea & was
shut at 40M€ ( 42 M€ according to "Marca") - CASH IN HAND -
& 6M€/season for the player. This satisfies Robinho´s desire to leave
Madrid & play in England as shown by his unilateral press conference
of yesterday that was clear & disappointed fans, teammates, coach
& Club.


















However, SFS believes that Robinho has forced a situation that has
backfired & will probably effect his Football future. The player wanted
Chelsea - finalists of Champions League 2007 & back to try again in
2008/09 - & with its Brazilian coach. Now he is off to a Club that will
not be in Champions this season & has no guarantees of getting into
Champions next or the other season, yet alone winning the Premier
- with all my respects for a respectable & historic Club like Man City.
Beware - Robinho has created for himself a history already of
"uncertainty" & SFS hopes he will be able to fit in well at City & the
English way of life.

Real Madrid may baffle with this decision, although they gain 42M€ they
lose a worthy player that now finds Real Madrid without a true winger &
Coach Schuster will not be happy at all. Its obvious that Real Madrid
has not planned well the summer season. Real Madrid made a last
effort attempt for David Villa this afternoon, but latest news say that
Valencia has rejected conversations. Time will tell us if Robinho did good
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REAL MADRID: THE ROBINHO CIRCUS CONTINUES - REAL NOW SAYS NO TO CHELSEA FC (FOR THE MOMENT)

A late night dinner Wednesday night between Robinho´s rep Wagner
Ribiero & Chelsea FC Top Directive Peter Kenyon heralded the done
deal: REAL MADRID Brazilian forward ROBINHO was headed to
London. So confident was Chelsea that their 35M€ offer was to be
accepted that they placed on their Web page yesterday the availability
of buying the new Robinho Chelsea shirt. But something has gone
wrong & against the script.

Chelsea withdraw the Web offer hours later when it seemed that Real
Madrid announced to the English Club that Robinho would stay &
would not be transferred.















Whats going on? There are numerous rumours flying about from
all sources that are confusing & contradictory, lets attempt to see the
big picture. There are dos groups - the Madrid based Sporting papers
(Marca/AS) & the other papers (Elmundo.es/Mundo Deportivo/Sport)
- that give different angles.

Madrid Based Papers:
(A) They have announced today that Real Madrid has
rejected Chelsea FC latest offer of 35M€ & that the player will stay.
They cite the fact that Coach Schuster has expressed his desire to have
Robinho in his team & not to sell.
(B) The same papers cite that Real Madrid is angry with Chelsea for
putting on its Web site the availabilty of Robinho´s shirt, as they see it
as a "dirty" tactic of pressuring the Club.
(C) The papers, put the blame on Robinho´s representative Wagner
Ribiero in masterminding everything in the shadows & giving Chelsea´s
Peter Kenyon false hopes.
(D) Real Madrid has always said that 40M€ is the amount to begin
talking & 35M€ is still to low.














The other Papers:
(A) Yes, the operation has been stopped.
(B) The reason, that Real Madrid has´nt any player to announce
as a new signning publically to replace Robinho. They need to do so to
reduce the backlash from its ground based supporters & members.
(C) Carzola (Villareal) & Villa (Valencia) said NO to Real, this has
put Real in a further bad position with its supporters & public image.
(D) Real Madrid asked Chelsea for DROGBA - it was rejected.
(E) To find a solution, Football Director Pedja Mijatovic attempted
desperately yesterday to re-open the Kaka & Cristiano Ronaldo
options at Monaco ( Uefa Champions draw) - not successful.
(F) Only other names at this moment - PSG forward Boli & Joaquin
(Valencia) - but these are surreal & not "class names".

According to Elmundo.es, this explains why Chelsea withdraw from
its Web Robinho´s shirt - to respect Real Madrid wish to announce
a substitute beforehand. The fact that Chelsea has sold Wright -
Phillips yesterday to Manchester City gives evidence of a deal between
Real Madrid - Chelsea. That Real Madrid maybe pressuring Chelsea
to let go Drogba & finally that Peter Kenyon is staying in Madrid for
the new events gives signal that it´s not all shut

So which news is right? Real Madrid announce that Robinho WILL
NOT be transferred & that it´s all an operation of Robinho´s
representative working in the shadows OR that Real Madrid is looking
desperately to find a replacement before letting go of its Brazilian
player?

SFS believes in the following - Yes, there was a deal. But the fact that
Cazorla & Villa said NO to Real Madrid torpedoed everything. Real
Madrid has´nt a "class name" to announce as a substitution & will not
transfer Robinho until it has one.

There is 3 days left, anything could happen...Drogba be offered for
example, which may put back in course the opeartion, but until then,
Robinho - for the moment - will stay at Real Madrid. This is the
Football CIRCUS were players are just meat to trade. Stay tuned, the
fat lady has´nt sang as yet. Tweet

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ROBINHO & REAL MADRID: A CHESS GAME

It´s normal, you to would be pissed off if you knew that your
Club was thinking of selling you to another Club for another
player. That´s the case of REAL MADRID & its Brazilian player
ROBINHO in its quest to sign Cristiano Ronaldo.

However, the Manchester United Portugues star is now not coming
& Robinho is in a strong bargaining position because he has a
serious offer from Chelsea FC that offers him 6M€/season wage.
























With a "crafty" representative & a chance to "stick it up" Real
Madrid, Robinho now asks that his Club at least get close to the
Chelsea offer. The Brazilian now earns 2.1M€ & Real offer 3,5
M€...however Robinho wishes 5M€ at least & has put that
condition for him to stop courting with Chelsea.

SFS believes the following: that the Brazilian wishes to stay at Real
Madrid, that he will use the Chelsea FC offer to force Madrid to
greatly better his salary, using the lever of threats that he will leave.
Pure strategy & politics.

But be careful, a big offer may make Real Madrid think twice & take
him away from his "dream" & the "Biggest Club In History". Money
vs Dream/Prestige...A credible Football Star vs A simple mercenary. Tweet

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CHELSEA FC MAKES A FORMAL OFFER FOR ROBINHO

News from the CHELSEA FC website tells us that the English
Premier League Club has made a formal offer to REAL MADRID
for its star Brazilian International forward ROBINHO. More pressure
on the player as it goes totally out in public, from the buyer & now the
wished seller. The offer is speculated to be initially 24€M which is below
what Real would have wanted to hear.





















SFS doubts that Real Madrid will let Robinho go even if the
Brazilian wanted to, he is now more wanted than ever at Real
after Cristiano Ronaldo communicated that he will not go to
the Spanish Club. In any case, everything is possible & SFS will
keep a close eye on developments. Tweet

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CARTOON HUMOUR: REAL MADRID & ROBINHO

Nothing like some "sarcastic" humour from Barcelona to stick the
finger into the old arch rival REAL MADRID. From the Catalan
Sports daily "Sport" & its cartoon section, "Futbolitis" come this piece
dedicated to Madrid player ROBINHO & his daily flirts with Chelsea
FC & his "loyalty" to Madrid.









Translated literally:

1º image : " I wish to leave Madrid"
2º image : " I expect to stay at Madrid for a long time"
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TRANSFERS 2008: FC BARCELONA ASKS FOR ROBINHO

Wagner Ribeiro, representaive of REAL MADRID Brazilian
International ROBINHO, has let known to the media that Real
Madrid has a "big" offer from Chelsea FC & that a FC
BARCELONA Directive has called him to ask for the situation of
his player.

This has exploded in the local sports papers (marca, as, mundo
deportivo...) as it concerns the "old enemy" & transfers to the
eternal rival are controversial & not well seen.
















FC Barcelona is looking for a forward to replace Samuel Eto´o when
he finally leaves & Robinho wishes to know immediately his future:
will he stay or be transferred. Real Madrid has said publically that
they wish the player to stay & Coach Schuster believes he is an
important piece of the future team.

SFS still thinks that the future of Robinho is linked on how the
Cristiano Ronaldo operation finishes. If Ronaldo goes to Madrid,
Robinho will go, if not the Brazilian will stay. Stay tuned! Tweet

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REAL MADRID HAS A 60M€ OFFER FOR ROBINHO FROM CHELSEA FC

It´s common knowledge that REAL MADRID Brazilian International
ROBINHO, via his representative, has met with CHELSEA FC three
times already. It´s also known that Chelsea coach Scolari insists that
his Club sign the 24 year old forward. Add to this that Robinho is
unhappy to know that he may enter into a hypothetical "Cristiano
Ronaldo Operation", plus that Robinho has asked for a doubling of his
salary at Madrid ( 2 to 4M€) & we have all the ingredients for
another Football (Soccer) story.
























Latest news is that Chelsea FC has lifted its offer & yesterday placed
it on Real Madrid´s table, a cool 60M€! Very tempting for any Club,
& perfect to finance the transfer of Cristiano Ronaldo to Madrid.

However, Madrid has´nt shut the transfer of Ronaldo as yet & needs
to keep Robinho in case it never happens. Chelsea knows this & is
awaiting to see how things develope with the Manchester United player.
They know that Real Madrid will have to sell in order to get their "dream
player" over to Spain. The only unknown is if the Ronaldo operation
fails & never eventuates , Robinho will then stay at Madrid & the
Spanish Club will have to eventually double his salary. Stay tuned! Tweet

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ROBINHO FLIRTING WITH CHELSEA FC

Spanish sports daily, "Marca", has revealed that Wegner Ribeiro,
representative of REAL MADRID Brazilian player ROBINHO,
travelled to London yesterday to meet with CHELSEA FC. New
Chelsea coach Scolari has solicitated Robinho to form part of his
new proyect. However, Real Madrid has said that they count with
the player for the new season & will not hear anything for less than
36M€.
















Smells like Robinho could be playing with both sides. His strategy
maybe to force Real Madrid to better his contract or avoid that he
be used in the Cristiano Ronaldo operation with Manchester United.
Either way, Robinho is playing a dangerous game, Real don´t like it
& may take the money if it is enough. Stay tuned! Tweet

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