It’s now official, Zlatan Ibrahimovic is at AC Milan, while Javier Mascherano at Barcelona.
Ibrahimovic will spend a year on loan, with the chance for ACM to buy him for only 24m. He will earn €8m/season.
Mascherano is payed €22m, with €3m of Javier who payed also Liverpool just to let him go.
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Javier is one step to became new Barcelonista. FC Barcelona have found an agreement with Liverpool FC, which has been confirmed on official website.
Javier Mascherano decided to go to Barca, besides Inter’s interest, where the coach is Rafa Benitez. Kuyt will also stay at Liverpool, so Inter won’t get any of Liverpool’s players.
It is expected that Javier will undergo medical exams on monday and put pen on the paper.
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Last reports told us that everything is agreed, and that Zlatan Ibrahimovic will decide where he will end up. He asked clubs to give him 24-hours to think about it.
Agent Mino Raiola got the job done, he will earn €8m (just before he joined Barca last season, he was best player of Inter and was earning €11m – was the most payed player in the world).
AC Milan will pay €40m in three rates (three years), first and second year €15m, the last one – third year €10m. Last season, Barca payed €42m in cash plus Samuel Eto’o for his services to Inter Milan.
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Juventus Turin is about to sell Diego to Wolfsburg for €20m, but City is also looking to buy their Marchisio for €15m, while Juventus is asking for €18m according to some sources.
Juventus has bought Krasic from CSKA and brought Aquilani from Liverpool on loan, so they need to sell some midfield players.
Roberto Mancini would love to see Claudio Marchisio alongside Yaya Toure.
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Inter Milan and FC Barcelona are in battle for Javier Mascherano, but now, Robinho is another target. Barcelona already tried to buy him, but without the success.
Yesterday, Robinho said that he won’t join Fenerbahce, or any other Turkish side, and said that the only countries where he would go are Italy and Spain.
Inter Milan is looking for a player simular to him, they have sent the offer for Dirk Kuyt, but may offer €25m for Robinho which would be enough for Manchester City.
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Inter Milan have sent their final offer for Liverpool’s duo Masch-Kuyt. According to our sources, they offered €30m plus Sulley Ali Muntari for Javier Mascherano and Dirk Kuyt.
Massimo Moratti said last night that they can wait, as Barcelona is also interested in Argentinian midfielder. And today, our sources have find out that Hodgson refused Catalonian’s offer for Masch, which was far away from their expectations – €20m in cash.
We can now only wait and see if Hodgson will accept Benitez’s offer.
* Juventus looking to bring Karim Benzema to their club on loan.
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As we already mentioned, Sebastien Squillaci will be a new Arsenal FC player until the end of this week. He has expressed his desire to play for Wenger’s team.
This weekend, he will undergo medical exams in London, and then sign officialy contract with English club.
* Sergio Aguero is about to extend his contract with Atletico Madrid which will bring on him release clause of €90m.
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Stephen Ireland said a lot about Roberto Mancini, and Milner:
“I did feel unwanted at Manchester City. I was banging my head against a brick wall despite what I had done in training. I just went with the reserves, worked hard in the gym and kept as active as possible.”
“Without a shadow of doubt the situation I found myself in will happen a lot at Manchester City with all the high-profile players they have at the club. At Manchester City sitting on the bench I didn’t feel part of the team. I was neither happy nor sad if we lost. He must think the grass is greener on the other side but he’ll get a shook soon because it’s definitely not that way. I’ve really landed on my feet here.”
“James Milner sees the attraction of going to City, he obviously sees the players going there and he wants to be one of those so-called superstars and nail down his place in the England team, become more established and play 90 minutes for England. I can understand why he has gone there but I can tell him that I’m very happy to leave there and come here. Some people have used the phrase that I’ve been forced out; I couldn’t be happier to be forced to come here.”
“I don’t think loyalty is much in anyone’s mind at Manchester City. I felt like I would be next [to leave]. A lot of players felt like that as well – the homegrown guys. Mancini doesn’t really build relationships with players. He has everybody a bit on edge. He brought Patrick Vieira in and when I spoke to him [Vieira] about his relationship [with Mancini], he said he doesn’t really have one, and he’s worked for him for years. I think that’s the way he is.”
“I think that was really unfair, all the players know I was the first player into training and the last to leave. I worked the hardest. With all the heart-rate monitors and tests, I was always No.1, far ahead of everyone. You see the performance in training and I was practically always the best player in training. If [Mancini's] standing there watching that, I don’t know how he doesn’t see that.”
“Richard Dunne is a good example of what can happen after leaving Manchester City to join Villa. A year on I can see how happy he is at Villa and I’m hoping that I will be as happy in a year’s time. Richard was a huge part of Manchester City and it was a great shock to see him leave. It was as big a shock to him as everyone else but he could not have come to a better club as he proved with his performances last season.”
“For me this is a positive, as this is exactly how I want it to be. I’m still young and hopefully Villa will get the best of me and I am now looking forward to the season.”
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After romour that Dirk Kuyt will become player of Champions league winner, Italian FC Internazionale, Liverpool boss (Roy Hodgson) said:
“I spoked with Massimo Moratti who told me that they were looking Mascherano and Kuyt, but because of price, they won’t buy them.”
Last night, Massimo Moratti said:
“Kuyt is wish of Rafa Benitez, and we will try to bring him.”
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* Liverpool FC today confirmed that Alberto Aquilani will go to Juventus on a one year loan.
- Arsenal trying to sign Sevilla’s Squillaci.
- W. Bremen signed Wesley (23) from Santos as replacement for Mesut Oezil.
- Tonight, two big matches, as Super cup’s of league: Inter-Roma; Barcelona-Sevilla.
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