FC Barcelona Thread 2006/2007

La Saeta Rubia wrote:Puyol looked like he was limping in the end, hopeully he`s injured

It won't matter because we have Thuram and Marquez

Good win, as you say, easy opposition so the real test will be the Valencia game coming soon, and of course the Chelsea matches.

It's good though, goals, clean sheets, and good performances with low intensity will keep confidence high and injury low.

this is the 3rd game i have missed.

FC Barcelona: Anderson & Lucho González Tracked

Txiki Begiristain, owner of a rather unmistakeable profile, was recently spotted in Portugal following two of the hottest midfielders in the FC Porto that Fábio Capello already tipped for great things this year.

FC Barcelona last went shopping in Porto in 2004 when they successfully snapped up Brazilian-born Anderson de Souza – a.k.a. Deco – in a deal that included Ricardo Quaresma. The number 20 was fresh from scoring the second goal in the Dragões’ CL Final win over Monaco.

The watched duo hails from South America –Argentine dynamo Luis ‘Lucho’ González and Brazilian playmaker Anderson. Although admitting that he was, indeed, tracking the pair, the Barça football director denied that they were in the Catalan club’s immediate plans for the future.

“There’s been no formal move made by Barça. I’ve just been watching some of the players that we’ve been keeping an eye on to see their game first hand”, he stressed before commenting on the performance of the current team against Levski.

“They played like they did in Osasuna, keeping up a good rhythm and recovering any lost balls as rapidly as possible. As you could see, Thuram is also a highly disciplined player who’s winning everybody over through his work on the pitch.”

FC Barcelona: Anderson & Lucho González Tracked

Txiki Begiristain, owner of a rather unmistakeable profile, was recently spotted in Portugal following two of the hottest midfielders in the FC Porto that Fábio Capello already tipped for great things this year.


FC Barcelona last went shopping in Porto in 2004 when they successfully snapped up Brazilian-born Anderson de Souza – a.k.a. Deco – in a deal that included Ricardo Quaresma. The number 20 was fresh from scoring the second goal in the Dragões’ CL Final win over Monaco.

The watched duo hails from South America –Argentine dynamo Luis ‘Lucho’ González and Brazilian playmaker Anderson. Although admitting that he was, indeed, tracking the pair, the Barça football director denied that they were in the Catalan club’s immediate plans for the future.

“There’s been no formal move made by Barça. I’ve just been watching some of the players that we’ve been keeping an eye on to see their game first hand”, he stressed before commenting on the performance of the current team against Levski.

“They played like they did in Osasuna, keeping up a good rhythm and recovering any lost balls as rapidly as possible. As you could see, Thuram is also a highly disciplined player who’s winning everybody over through his work on the pitch.”

http://www.goal.com/en/Articolo.aspx?ContenutoId=126480

psst! Have a look on QLD's forum. Madrid are losing 2 - 0 to Lyon already and QLD is losing it.

0-2 final score, but Lyon are quite a hard team. Much better than Madrid at the moment but most Madrid fans won't recognise that.

Guys, howz Zambrotta turning out for Barca?? I was surprised to see him on the bench this time, whats happening?

bluenine wrote:Guys, howz Zambrotta turning out for Barca?? I was surprised to see him on the bench this time, whats happening?

rotation is the reason why he didn'y start.

he is working out fine just needs to develop a better understanding with messi, something similar to whay dinho has on the left.

No catalanes around today then ? Maybe they got washed away by the tremedous weather catalunya is having lol

La Saeta Rubia wrote:No catalanes around today then ? Maybe they got washed away by the tremedous weather catalunya is having lol

Feeling better after last night LSR?

La Saeta Rubia wrote:No catalanes around today then ? Maybe they got washed away by the tremedous weather catalunya is having lol

What can we do, we have nothing to talk about...getting raped by Lyon, Ronaldo vs. Ruud, Cicinho stay or go, Robinho start or not, Reyes vs. Raul, Guti vs. Emerson, Capello good or not, etc. etc. Good times in the blanco camp huh?

lol Kasnani, no matter how well Barça are doing you always find time to talk about us, you really cant live without us, admit it ...

Ricky was trying out a bit of total football in training today.

"one where once a player had touched the ball, he had to change positions with another player - which undoubtedly caused a few difficulties."

the players will figure it out some enough and who will be able to stop us then.

La Saeta Rubia wrote:lol Kasnani, no matter how well Barça are doing you always find time to talk about us, you really cant live without us, admit it ...

Speaking of which.....an interesting article

http://sport.independent.co.uk/football/european/article1603618.ece

......though even I wouldn't completely write you off after only three matches.

is barca playing on saturday or sunday?

On barca website it says sunday but on sky it says saturday

can someone confirm?

Sunday 8pm Spanish time.

thanks

does anyone know if sky are gonna show it?

Barça playing on Sunday at 8pm.

Sad madridistas invading our thread, please go to your own thread and you can trash our club as much as you want.

MightyBarca wrote:thanks

does anyone know if sky are gonna show it?

They probably will, they always show Barca and Madrid games.

I really don't know how the time benefits TV, since RM play at 9 pm on Sunday, so they're not going to be able to show both RM and Barça live now.

The agreement is Close

According to reports emanating from Spain and Portugal, FC Barcelona have almost managed to reach a three-way agreement between FC Porto number 10 Anderson Luis de Abreu Oliveira, his agent Jorge Mendes and the Dragões (FC Porto).

The Catalan football director Txiki Begiristain has being watching the new star from the same club as Ronaldinho Gaúcho (Brazil’s Grêmio de Porto Alegre) shine on the northern Portuguese stage and was convinced enough to greenlight the signing as a priority for next season.

Barça have moved in for the kill after it became known that the 18 year old prodigy was also being closely tracked by Chelsea and that Roman Abramovich was on the point of writing a blank cheque for José Mourinho. Milan, Inter, Valencia, Sevilla, Hamburg and Arsenal are all reportedly interested in Anderson.

It was really the presence of Chelsea’s Frank Arnessen at the CL match between Porto and CSKA Moscow that made Begiristain speed things up. He’d previously said that he was following both Anderson and Albiceleste midfielder Lucho González but no move ws being made to sign either player.

The next – and trickiest step – is to convince sulphurous Porto President Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa (PdC) to part with the young star. The exec seems to have wriggled free of 21 charges of corruption in the ‘Golden Whistle’ case in Portugal and is feeling particularly bullet-proof.

There’s also the recent transfer of Diego (ex-Santos) to Werder Bremen to take into account. Ex-Porto Coach Co Adriaanse alienated Diego so far that he left the club, meaning that FC Porto could be about to lose their second playmaking prodigy in a row if they sell Anderson.

FC Barcelona want to sign the player and then loan him out to FC Porto – i.e. he won’t move but the Portuguese club will be free of paying his salary and getting a large amount for the transfer. This is intended to ease the deal and let Anderson get more European experience


i'm very excited about this say so that way i've been posting these updates on here, he was better than dos santos at the U-17 world cup so he must be great.

Good news, if we manage it, but I guess it will still be a few years before we see him in the Blaugrana shirt. Just don't hope that we are paying too much with Chelsea in the picture. (Maybe we can send Ezquerro/Saviola the other way to bring down the price)..

toon h wrote:I really don't know how the time benefits TV, since RM play at 9 pm on Sunday, so they're not going to be able to show both RM and Barça live now.

Sky have scheduled both, starting at 7pm. Barca v Racing kick off at 7pm UK time (8pm CET) so I imagine they'll do that one live and then delayed transmission for RM match, or possibly just the second half.

I'm annoyed they've moved this as Parma v Milan is on at the same time.

is madrids match on at 9 uk time?

MightyBarca wrote:is madrids match on at 9 uk time?

9pm CET (8pm UK time) according to RM site ....

I hope I haven't got the times mixed up. You're stilll 1 hour ahead of UK in Europe aren't you?

yes, it will start at 9 in Spain, which means 8 in the UK. I don't know about the transmission though.

the new Dinho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QoRV7JuQOc

Look at the move at the end

looks good.. I would still like us to sign a defensive midfielder too though.. Motta is looking a bit dodgy this far.

nice

Oleguerisntthatbad wrote:looks good.. I would still like us to sign a defensive midfielder too though.. Motta is looking a bit dodgy this far.

we a reported interested in Lucho as well