Posts Tagged ‘Barcelona’

Messi Collects Third Ballon D’or

Barcelona’s Lionel Messi, quite clearly the best player in the world, last night picked up his 3rd Ballon d’Or award, pipping team mate Xavi Hernandez and Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo to the prize. Messi is only the fourth player in history to collect the award 3 times and finds himself among good company in Johan Cruyff, Marco Van Basten...

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Transfer Rumours – 30 July 2010

It’s been a pretty feeble week for transfer rumours this week, here are some of the better ones… (more…)

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Transfer Rumours – 16 July 2010

Here we go with this week’s round up… Cesc Fabregas may be staying at Arsenal after all despite being pictured wearing a Barcelona shirt this week. The Catalan club are having some financial troubles and finding possible suitors for Zlatan Ibrahimovic to fund the transfer of Fabregas is looking less likely every day. Roy Hodgson has moved to stop...

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Transfer Rumours – 9 July 2010

Here we are with the first of a regular feature here at football-banter.com. It’s the transfer rumours section. And with out further ado here are this weeks… Manchester United seem to be linked with everyone and anyone that’s had a good World Cup. The latest of which are Inter Milan‘s Wesley Sneijder (not for sale) and Werder Bremen‘s...

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Greedy Barcelona Fail To Pay Player Wages

Greedy Barcelona Fail To Pay Player Wages

No content with being all their recent success Barcelona have recently been on another spending spree literally breaking the bank at the same time. The recent acquisition of Valencia’s David Villa cost them a whopping £34.2m, not bad for a team already considered the best in the world. The Catalan giants are also courting the services of Cesc Fabregas...

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