Berbatov A Barcelona Target But What Of Eto’o?
Thursday, July 17th, 2008 by Stuart Stratford
Reports in the English media have focussed on the possible transfer of Dimitar Berbatov from Tottenham to Manchester United. Suppositions were posited that the Premier League champions had agreed a fee in excess of £20m for the Bulgarian international but these have turned out to be false with no price yet agreed between the two clubs.
The move may be forced along apace if United are genuinely interested with Sport, a Spanish daily, reporting that as a result of the negotiations between Tottenham’s North London neighbours, Arsenal and Barcelona having stalled over Emmanuel Adebayor, the Catalans are now turning their attentions to Berbatov.
Once more though Barcelona are hamstrung by the absence of genuine offers for Samuel Eto’o. The Cameroonian is the key to incoming funds despite receiving €19m for Ronaldinho. Eto’o was an early close season target of Juande Ramos but rejected the move at that point on the grounds that Tottenham were not a ‘big’ club. Subsequent to those remarks, Eto’o has been publicly told he is not a major part of the new Barcelona coach, Pep Guardiola, plans. The announcement was not unexpected with the triumverate of Ronaldinho, Deco and Eto’o widely believed to a troublesome clique for former boss, Frank Rijkaard.
Guardiola has performed a small u-turn by confirming that any of them that remained at the club would be welcomed and used in the coming season. The motivation for Eto’o is to prove that he still has much to offer for a top European club otherwise Tottenham might represent the size of club that he is attractive to.
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Reports in the English media have focussed on the possible transfer of Dimitar Berbatov from Tottenham to Manchester United. Suppositions were posited that the Premier League champions had agreed a fee in excess of £20m for the Bulgarian international but these have turned out to be false with no price yet agreed between the two clubs.
The move may be forced along apace if United are genuinely interested with Sport, a Spanish daily, reporting that as a result of the negotiations between Tottenham’s North London neighbours, Arsenal and Barcelona having stalled over Emmanuel Adebayor, the Catalans are now turning their attentions to Berbatov.
Once more though Barcelona are hamstrung by the absence of genuine offers for Samuel Eto’o. The Cameroonian is the key to incoming funds despite receiving €19m for Ronaldinho. Eto’o was an early close season target of Juande Ramos but rejected the move at that point on the grounds that Tottenham were not a ‘big’ club. Subsequent to those remarks, Eto’o has been publicly told he is not a major part of the new Barcelona coach, Pep Guardiola, plans. The announcement was not unexpected with the triumverate of Ronaldinho, Deco and Eto’o widely believed to a troublesome clique for former boss, Frank Rijkaard.
Guardiola has performed a small u-turn by confirming that any of them that remained at the club would be welcomed and used in the coming season. The motivation for Eto’o is to prove that he still has much to offer for a top European club otherwise Tottenham might represent the size of club that he is attractive to.
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