News from the world, or what passes for it, a.k.a. “It ain’t Pep’s Place, but it’s all we got.”
By: Kevin | July 11th, 2009
Despatches and other craziness from the world at large:
–El Mundo Deportivo says that on Monday, Villa will try his hand at sorting out his situation, and either crap or get off the pot, with an eye toward havng this all sorted by week’s end. Wonder what Goal.com has to say about their “exclusive?”
–Remember Dani Guiza? Right. Remember how underwhelming he was for Fehnerbahce? Riiiiight. Well EMD says that Guardiola has been asking about him. He’s unsettled in Turkey, and has been in play this transfer season. 15m is the rumored magic number, which is certainly cheap. He’s a nice option if Eto’o stays, because you can bring him off the bench for that classic “9″ thing.
–EMD is also reporting that a TV show is alleging that in personal contact between Guardiola and Eto’o on or around 8 June, our striker was informed that he wasn’t part of the program for the coming season.
Could this BE any more messy(i)?
–Speaking of Messi, in the “I always knew he was gonna be good” category, the official site has a chronicling of the first scouting report on our little wizard.
“He’s not much physically but he is technically superb and very fast,” wrote Xavi Llorens back in the day about a 13-year-old kid who was thinking of signing with the club.
As an aside, this is the kind of great stuff that BarcaTV does. Shame that it’s going away as a consumer entity.
–Sport has the temerity to suggest that Hleb and Gudjohnsen might be used to help sweeten the Fabregas deal.
No, I didn’t make that one up.
–Bojan Krkic was told by the coaching staff at the end of the season that, essentially, a lot of crap was going to come up about him being used as bait, etc, and that he shouldn’t believe it. He will be part of the club’s plans for the coming season, promising him “a bigger role.” Well, don’t that just beat all?
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Thanks for this, Kevin.
The funny thing about Pep’s site is that I kept imagining that I would wake up one day, check the site, and see a “OFFICIAL: VILLA to Barcelona” but that isn’t to be.
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