By Chris Wright

After a couple of week's worth of wrangling, gangly midfielder Sergio Busquets has signed a new contract at Barcelona which will bind him to the Catalan club until 2015.

So said the man himself:

"I'm very happy with the renewal of my contract.

On the 10th June 2008, a 19 year old Mexican by the name of Giovanni Dos Santos joined Tottenham FC from European Giants Barcelona for the minimal fee of £4.7m. Having progressed through the youth ranks at Barcelona with the likes of Bojan and Sergio Busquets, 'Giovanni' quickly gained a reputation as an expert dribbler with instinctive creative attributes, with many dubbing him the new Ronaldinho.

FC Barcelona Beat Real betis 5-0 in Copa Del Rey Quarter Final first Leg

The newly crowned FIFA-Balon D'Or World Player of Year, Lionel Messi celebrated his scuccess in grand style scoring a hat-trick in the first leg of Copa Del Rey quarter final clash against Real Betis. The scoreline would give us an impression of a very easy outing, but it wasn't that easy.

FC Barcelona welcomed 2011 with a hard fought victory

FC Barcelona started the new year 2011 with a good victory against Levante. It wasn't as easy as expected, but we managed to achieve our main objective which was the three points. Pedrito struck twice in the first half to put Barca ahead before Levante pulled one back to make way for a nervous finish.

Normally a European match is noticeable because of the clash of styles involved. Think Inter Milan's immovable object against Barcelona's irresistible force. Similarly, Tottenham have stunned Europe by using traditional English wingers and an old-fashioned target man. In the Europa League, Napoli played a three man backline against teams used to a more traditional back four.

Bottles take La Liga by storm Not so long ago we would have suggested that Barcelona midfielder Xavi was invincible. But in the space of a week he has been owned by Sergio Busquets and now a plastic bottle. The one-man pass machine struggled to get to grips with the sports drink, grappling with his [.

Morning all. Throughout January Soccerlens are going to be bringing you a daily round-up of the morning's various goings-on. Be it juicy morsels of spurious transfer gossip or real, actual bona fide news, rest assured, we'll have it covered.

Here's this morning's batch.

Messi cleans up.

We're being linked with a whole bunch of young players that everyone else is also after. Highly doubt we're going to attempt to outbid anyone if it does come down to a matter of which club can offer more. Sir Alex's idea of value is typically less than what the generally (inflated) market value is.

FC Barcelona took full advantage of Real Madrid slip

FC Barcelona won their 17th consecutive win of the season with a 4-1 demolition of Malaga at the Camp Nou. By doing so we have now moved four points clear of our arch-rival Real Madrid. Iniesta opened the scoring followed by Villa, Pedro and again Villa to complete the tally.

Barçelona midfielder Sergio Busquets has signed a contract extension that will keep him at the club until 2015. The deal also includes the chance to extend the contract based on games played in its final season. In addition the buyout clause has been increased from 80 to 150 million Euros.