Catalan sports weekly paper Gol claims that there's a transfer battle going on between the Barcelona board and the candidacy of former Barcelona sports vice-president Sandro Rosell ahead of next year's presidential elections.Rosell, who left the board in June of 2005 and will run for president, would already be holding for a while talks with players' agents in order to build a new football project that would continue the current successes.
The Catalan businessman would like to strengthen and renew the Barcelona squad by signing four players: Bayern Munich attacker Franck Ribéry (26), Arsenal midfielder Cesc Fàbregas (22), AC Milan forward Alexandre Pato (20) and Valencia left winger David Silva (23) or his team-mate Juan Mata (21).
Over the past months, the current board, inspired by election polls indicating a clear lead for Rosell (check the polls here), would nevertheless also have contacted several of those players trying to sign some of them before the elections to gain more votes.
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anybody is interested in Pep's opinion?
ReplyDeletewe know that pep wants to decide whom to buy or sell by himself, would he accept buying players whom he didn't choose ?
i want pep to say 1 word in the coming elections, one word which might be (or should be , imo) decisive : i don't want the coming president to bring any player with him , i know the team and im the one who should decide who come and who leave ..
Ps, didn't Rosell say that he will give Pep more power ?
It's believed that Guardiola will stay as neutral as possible during the campaign, Romyan. So don't expect many explicit talk (or even hints) from his side.
ReplyDeleteAnd Rosell didn't say anything so far. All we have is basically press speculation.
I know that Pep will not interfer with elections , but he can say a general word to " all " candidates , not only Rosell
ReplyDeleteI hope this isn't true. We shouldn't be signing stars, we should continue developing youth players. I can't stand some of this stuff about Rosell. I think the only reason he's so far ahead in opinion polls is that Ferrer just recently announced his candidacy and there isn't confirmation of a single contiuity campaign yet.
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