Some Spanish Football media observers claim one of the reasons that Chilean Alexis Sanchez is not yet a Barça player is because young JEFFREN refused to be part of the signing package operation that would have taken him to Italian Club Udinense. The U-21 Spanish International player does have alternative offers & especially from England.

It seems as though the defeat in the Champions League final at the hands of Barcelona may have been the best thing that has happened to Manchester United in recent years.

As Lionel Messi and Co. danced to the rhythm of their own incessant passing while Sir Alex Ferguson's men watched on helplessly, the Scot saw what could be his last great challenge appear before his eyes.

Barcelona are believed to have agreed a £33m deal for Udinese whizz-kid Alexis Sanchez. The expected four year deal will net the Chilean £2.7m.
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After losing 2 -1 to Manchester United last week Barcelona lost 4 - 1 to the Mexican Club Chivas in a World Football Challenge game.Marco Fabian scored a brilliant scissor kick that will easily rival Rooney's famous goal.Barcelona were without Lionel Messi,Daniel Alves, Javier Mascherano and Alexis Sanchez but even so 4 -1 is a bit of an upset.

Unsurprisingly, Manchester City and their limitless bank account have moved into pole position to sign Udinese's Alexis Sanchez despite a late charge today from city rivals Manchester United. Internazionale, Juventus, and Barcelona are also interested in the 22 year old ... Continue reading →

Sure, news of Andre Villas-Boas' imminent and no doubt suave arrival at Stamford Bridge is monopolizing headlines. Rightfully so.

However, such is the ridiculousness of this rumor that I needed to offer some initial thoughts on it.

Catalonia? Please.

Apparently Barcelona has been sniffing around the private space of one David Luiz in recent weeks.

By Chris Wright

David Luiz and best friend, Barney

Perhaps somewhat inevitable given that Chelsea suddenly became interesting again, but the gossip hounds of the land are having a field day this morning.

Take the Sun for example, who seem adamant that Barcelona are putting together a £27.

SPANISH SPORTS paper "AS" seem firm with their news piece today; that UDINESE 22 year old Chilean International forward ALEXIS SANCHEZ is very close to signing with FC BARCELONA. The paper even puts a money figure to give some weight to their "scoop", a shivering 27M€ ( their figure ) plus the inclusion of either young Barça player Jeffren or Thiago in the operation with opcion of getting the

The comparisons to Cristiano Ronaldo are vast: the obscene skills, the personality, the abs, the diving it's all there if in slightly watered down form for Alexis Sanchez.

Alexis also retains the possibility of this summer's most expensive signing not quite CR territory, however as he's heavily rumored to be off to Barcelona for many many wheelbarrows of euros.

The future of Udinese's Chilean star, Alexis Sanchez still hangs in the balance as despite recent strong indication that the player will ends up in Barcelona, things seems a little bit confusing as the Bianconeri's president, Giampaolo Pozzo, still denies that a deal have been struck with the Catalan.

C'mon show some spunk, Arsenal mates!

The Arsenal midfielder shows why he might be the doyen of his generation. At a press conference when asked whether Samir Nasri and Cesc Fabregas would stay on he went completely unscripted.

"Loyalty is a big part of football and it shows if you are a real man or not.

By Chris Wright

Just a few snaps of Barca's new £23-million No. 9, Alexis Sanchez, cutting a very lonely figure while apparently having to unveil himself (everyone else is on tour in Croatia) at the Catalan club's HQ yesterday...

Photos: PA

FC Barcelona will be playing their first competitive match of the 2011-12 season at Santiago Bernebeu stadium tomorrow night. The Spanish Super cup in contrast to their Premier League rivals is a two legged affair and we do have the advantage of playing teh second leg at home. Real Madrid and Barcelona had kind of a contrasting pre-season tour.

Nina Senicar es una modelo serbia afincada en Italia que saltó a la fama tras participar en el programa La isla de los famosos. La pasada temporada se convirtió en la musa del Udinese. Fanática de Alexis Sánchez no quiere que se marche del equipo italiano rumbo a Barcelona.

Nina Senicar es una modelo serbia afincada en Italia que saltó a la fama tras participar en el programa La isla de los famosos. La pasada temporada se convirtió en la musa del Udinese. Fanática de Alexis Sánchez no quiere que se marche del equipo italiano rumbo a Barcelona.

After a cavalcade of circumstantial evidence pointed to Cesc Fabregas's final season at Arsenal there are now increasing doubts whether he will finally leave for Barca, his boyhood club.

Simply put the financial figures for Barca are not very flattering. The club has the highest wage bill in the world, a stupendous €234.

Having talented players progress till they're good enough to play regular top level Premiership football is still an art that very few - if any - have perfected. The traditional route of letting them develop in the reserves no longer seems to apply given the dilution of quality in this league whilst the more recent solution of having the players go out on loan is a bit hit and miss.

Barcelona came from 1-0 down to win 3-1 against Real Madrid at the Santiago Bernabeu thanks to goals by Alexis Sanchez, Xavi and Cesc Fabregas. Pep Guardiola's men suffered a massive shock early on when they went a goal down after 22 seconds after Karim Benzema seized on Victor Valdes' mistake. Still, the champions fought [.

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SPANISH SPORTS paper "AS" seem firm with their news piece today; that UDINESE 22 year old Chilean International forward ALEXIS SANCHEZ is very close to signing with FC BARCELONA. The paper even puts a money figure to give some weight to their "scoop", a shivering 27M€ ( their figure ) plus the inclusion of either young Barça player Jeffren or Thiago in the operation with opcion of getting the

Mais um jogo amistoso, foi disputado no dia 02/04/2011, na cidade de St. George´s - GRA, no National Stadium, onde jogaram as seleções da Granada (128º no ranking da FIFA) e a seleção de St. Kitts´s (151º no ranking da FIFA).
Antes desse jogo, as 2 seleções jogaram:
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Udinese's most wanted man, Alexis Sanchez, looks really set to leave the Friulani after the club's president, Franco Soldati, revealed that the Chilean have been approached by several teams and serious talks have even been done especially with the likes of Barcelona and Juventus.

Soldati revealed that at the moment the Catalan giant are the closest one that could get their hands on the Zebra's prize assets as the president hinted about the involvement of players exchange aside from cash for the deal.

This is a good one. Spanish Barcelona based Sports paper "Mundo Deportivo" publish that Belgium & LILLE player EDEN HAZARD is the "Plan B", if the signing of Alexis Sanchez or Villareal player Rossi fail to come to good port for FC BARCELONA. The initial reaction is to think that this is just another "paper selling" gig & flying Football rumour.

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Alexis Sanchez has somehow become one of the hottest names in the transfer market this summer, with perhaps no club linked as strongly to the Udinese frontman than Barcelona. However, Sanchez's transfer would be, at best, premature and at worse, a total disaster. Taking into account the player's lack of Champions' League experience, enormous price-tag unbefitting of a player who has done.

Please don't go This advert for Chilean beer company Cristal has cunningly/unintentionally pre-empted the Alexis Sanchez transfer saga. The premise of the advert is that Chile's top stars are saying goodbye to Europe to head back to South America for the Copa America. The European's are distraught to see their stars, including Sanchez, Sevilla's Gary [.

The annual Fabregas to Barcelona saga is full swing, but there is a difference. Barcelona are not prepared to pay anything near Cesc's true value.

Barcelona kicked off the Cesc transfer with a plea of poverty; they only have £45M to spend on all transfer activities. This was directed at the Arsenal board, because whilst the Catalan outfit pleased poverty to Arsenal, they were busy trying to sign Rossi from Villarreal for £40M, Alexis Sanchez from Udinese for £35M and now David Luiz from Chelsea for £25M.

Cesc Fabregas reacts to Barca's offer: "Only £27m, scumbags!"

The Sun is reporting Barca have made an offer of £27m for Cesc Fabregas which has been rejected by Arsenal who are looking at least £35m.

But here is the pinch. There is absolutely nothing in the piranha like Spanish media on this supposedly huge breaking news.

Morning all, welcome to Friday and it's with Cesc we're starting today.

It seems Barcelona have made their first bid for the captain, a measly €30m. Rightly enough Arsenal have told them to 'get real' and come back with something more suitable.

Catalan daily Sport are reporting that Barcelona's vice-president of sporting stuff, Josep María Bartomeu, went to London this week to meet with Ivan Gazidis.

There was a time when I spent a few hours every day browsing the Arsenalsphere. In the last 10 days or so I don't think I have totaled an hour of surfing. There is so little going on.

First a random player is linked. Then the supposed transfer moves forward. One day, according to unsubstantiated reports, a player is close to signing as terms are settled.

Some Spanish Football media observers claim one of the reasons that Chilean Alexis Sanchez is not yet a Barça player is because young JEFFREN refused to be part of the signing package operation that would have taken him to Italian Club Udinense. The U-21 Spanish International player does have alternative offers & especially from England.

Word is that the club may be on the cusp of securing the services of Oriol Romeu. Wait, who?

Poor Barcelona. They really do seem to be scraping by at the moment, what with the signing of Alexis Sanchez finalized Wednesday and the inevitable transfer of Cesc Fabregas to come.

Spanish champions Barcelona got back to winning ways after a superb 4-0 win over Rayo Vallecano at the Camp Nou with Alexis Sanchez the star of the show. The young Chilean forward bagged a brace and further goals from David Villa and another sublime run-come-finish by Lionel Messi sealed a fine 4-0 win for La [.

Liverpool have been told they will need to offer £30 million to land Udinese star Alexis Sanchez.
The Chilean international has been linked with a number of clubs from across Europe after impressing in Serie 'A', with Liverpool director of football strategy Damien Comolli a known admirer of the player.

By Chris Wright

One of the South African World Cup's all too few redeeming features was the gung-ho 'attack attack attack' stylings of Marco Bielsa's young(ish) Chile side an enthusiastic ensemble almost embodied by Udinese winger Alexis Sanchez who, after coming into the tournament as something of an unknown entity, put himself on the map with a string of fine performances and, as such, has been in high demand ever since.

Who needs Alexis Sanchez more Manchester United or Manchester City? - originally posted on Soccerlens.com

One of the hottest names in this transfer window is Chilean International star, Alexis Sanchez.

After leading Udinese to a historical qualification to the Champions League, scoring 12 goals (his best ever goalscoring tally in a single season) and providing six assists, "El Niño Maravilla" looks mature enough to step up to one of Europe's big boys; he appears to be in the midst of a tussle for his services between both Manchester clubs; City and United (along with a host of top European clubs as Udinese hawk their player to the highest bidder.

By Darshan Joshi, who should be fast asleep, writing from Sydney

"There are people being sold for £20m who are not fit to lace Luka's boots." So said good old Harry Redknapp, steering into motion a vicious cycle that will now send inflation levels parachuting, floating past the peaks attained by the alleyway drunk on a magic mushroom high, waving at the faceless mountain ranges as if they were grinning right back at him with their bleached heads and Ray-Ban sunglasses.

It's transfer season which means loads of rumors flying around the press and loads of bored fans searching the internet for info on their club's possible new signings. Since Google Labs recently released Google Correlate, I figured now was a good time to see if any insights could be gained using it to investigate transfer rumors.

By Chris Wright

The biggest news emanating from the transfer market this morning is that Chile have allowed Alexis Sanchez to leave their Copa America training camp in order to travel to Barcelona and rubber-stamp a transfer after Udinese accepted Barca's $45 million (approx £26.

Barcelona is on the verge of signing Alexis Sanchez. Not so fast says Gianpaolo Pozzo, Udinese's owner who is demanding €50m for the Chilean striker.

In addition, he is less impressed by Barca's sweeteners of Bojan Krkic and Jonathan Soriano and has plumped instead for Jeffren and Giovani Dos Santos.