New Barca chairman Sandro Rosell believes he can acquire Liverpool midfielder Javier Mascherano for a cut price figure of £18million, according to El Mundo Deportivo. The Catalan club have identified the Argentinean captain as a replacement for Yaya Toure, who is bound for Manchester City according to his agent. Mascherano had been linked with a move to Inter Milan to join up with his old manager Rafa Benitez, but Inter president Massimo Moratti has baulked at Liverpool’s £30million valuation of the player. Barca now feel they have a free run on the player, and believe they can offer a small sum because of Liverpool’s financial situation.
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Sell Masch,and bring Banega,he’s cheap and is better.
what do barca want a quality holding midfielder (maybe the best holding midfielder in the world) for peanuts i dont think so maybe 30 mil it mite be a deal
no back doors with you stephen!
really though, are they taking the piss? MUST be a MINIMUM of £30m
as if this is going to happen, firstly we paid 18m for him and therefore we’d make next to nothing in profit. secondly they’re receiving around 25m for a player half mascherano’s quality, but expect to pay less for a better player
He is a little bit overrated yes. But 18m is still too little considering Villa wanted the same sum for Barry and Liverpool signed Aqualani who was still injured with the same amount.
i agree that he is overrated, but who isn’t in todays market e.g. villa wanting 30m for milner
Here we go … they will do the negative chat in the hope they can get him cheap … thing is, we do not need to sell, and that has been confirmed many times, even by rafa …
We will take 18m up front Barca and the the other 12m over 2 years … 😉
Its not a buyers market, its a sellers market, so let them play there silly games with the media, but we as a club will stand firm …
RR
Surely Liverpool’s financial situation means they are much LESS likely to sell one of their most valuable assets on the cheap…