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      Barcelona president Joan Laporta overheard revealing Lionel Messi transfer plan at LaLiga clash vs Getafe

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      BARCELONA president Joan Laporta appeared to reveal his Lionel Messi transfer plan.Laporta was in the stands at the Coliseum Alfonso Perez yesterday to watch Barca’s 0-0 draw with Getafe.
      Joan Laporta appeared to confirm he will try and sign Lionel Messi back for Barcelona
      Messi is the club’s record appearance maker and goalscorerCredit: AFP

      The result saw the Catalan giants’ lead at the top of LaLiga cut to 11 points with Real Madrid beating Cadiz.
      But more importantly, it could have revealed the grand designs Laporta has to bring Messi back to the Nou Camp this summer, with initial contact already made.
      The 60-year-old posed for photographs with Barca supporters.
      And as he was doing so, one said to him: “Messi to Barca.”
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      Laporta replied with a smile and a wink and simply said: “Yes.”
      Now Barcelona fans are convinced the video circulating online is proof their club will try and re-sign Messi.
      One said: “It’s happening.”
      Another wrote: “He is coming home.”
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      A third added a video of Thomas Tuchel celebrating wildly down the touchline.
      But others are less convinced – after Laporta suggested Messi would not leave in 2021.
      One replied: “This guy is really good at PR and cheated Messi before. I don’t think he is reliable.”
      And a final user commented: “Until I see Messi in Barca shirt, I don’t believe anything.”
      Messi, 35, left Barcelona in tears when his contract expired in 2021 but could not sign an extension due to the LaLiga club’s financial woes and Spanish employment law preventing a major wage cut.
      Instead he signed a two-year contract with Paris Saint-Germain.
      But with that deal running out at the end of this season, his future is still unclear.

      There has reportedly been offers from Inter Miami as well as Saudi Arabia to try and lure Messi to a new market.
      However, Barcelona fans would be delighted to see their former captain, record appearance maker and record goalscorer return to the club he first joined aged 13.
      Messi was in tears as he left Barcelona in 2021Credit: AFP
      The Argentine’s contract at PSG expires this summerCredit: AFP More

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      Barcelona and Inter Milan in talks over transfer swap deal involving two of their top midfield stars

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      BARCELONA and Inter Milan have discussed a swap deal involving midfielders Franck Kessie and Marcelo Brozovic, according to reports. Kessie joined Barcelona from Inter’s rivals AC Milan on a free transfer last summer but has consistently been linked with a move away from the Nou Camp.
      Kessie only joined Barcelona last summer but has been linked with a move away from Nou CampCredit: Rex
      Brozovic is reportedly seen as an ideal replacement for Sergio BusquetsCredit: Rex
      Italian outlet Gazzetta dello Sport have reported that a swap deal with Kessie and Inter midfielder Brozovic still has legs with specific factors making it an attractive option for both clubs.
      Brozovic has been at Inter since joining from Dinamo Zagreb in 2015 and has made 253 appearances for the club.
      The report adds that Inter’s sporting director Piero Ausilio met with his Barcelona counterpart Mateu Alemany on Thursday with the midfield pair part of their discussions.
      The idea of a swap deal was first mooted in January with nothing happening but Gazzetta have reported that the deal is still alive.
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      According to the report both midfielders are valued at about £26million which would make any potential swap relatively straight forward.
      It is also noted that both clubs would stand to benefit financially from the potential swap.
      Despite having a contract to 2026 there is ongoing tension between the Croatian and Inter with the report adding that Xavi likes his playmaking abilities.
      They report that the Catalan’s view the Croatian star as an ideal successor to Sergio Busquets.
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      The Ivory Coast international has reportedly been on Inter’s radar from long before he joined Barcelona. More

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      Real Madrid star Toni Kroos set to stay and sign new one-year deal and Aurelien Tchouameni will NOT be allowed to leave

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      TONI KROOS is set to sign a new one year contract at Real Madrid whilst Aurelien Tchouameni will not be allowed to leave the club, according to reports. Kroos, 33, joined the Spanish giants from Bayern Munich back in 2014 for a fee of £20million.
      Kroos and Tchouameni are both set to remain at the Bernabeu next seasonCredit: Getty
      The German international has made 265 appearances to date for Los Blancos scoring 21 goals.
      Speculation had been rife around Kroos’s future with his current deal expiring at the end of the season but he is set to extend his stay in the Spanish capital.
      Transfer expert Fabrizio Romano has reported that the German will put pen to paper on a new one year deal until June 2024.
      Romano added that Kroos didn’t negotiate with any other clubs and it was either retirement or staying at Madrid.
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      The German international has won three La Liga titles and the Champions League four times during his time with Madrid.
      Meanwhile Kroos’s team-mate and fellow midfielder Tchouameni won’t be allowed to leave the club this summer according to Spanish publication AS.
      The Frenchman was a big money signing in the summer from AS Monaco and having made a promising start his Madrid career has stagnated since the World Cup.
      AS report that within the club they are putting it down to adapting to a new way of playing, a new country and a club which is notoriously difficult to adapt to as was the case with Luka Modric and Eder Militao.
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      The report adds that Madrid won’t listen to any offers for the 23-year-old and they believe he will become the player that did so well at Bordeaux and Monaco.
      Tchouameni has made 24 appearances for Los Blancos in LaLiga this season and has yet to find the back of the net for his new team.
      He was part of the Madrid side that won the Club World Cup in February. More

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      Gavi holds talks over Chelsea transfer but desperate Barcelona boss Xavi warns ‘I don’t think he would be happy’

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      BARCELONA boss Xavi has warned Gavi the grass is not always greener amid reports linking him with a transfer to Chelsea. Gavi was rewarded with his first contract at the Nou Camp which would keep him at Barcelona until 2026.
      Gavi could leave Barcelona as a free agent this summerCredit: AP
      But Xavi has warned the grass is not always greenerCredit: Getty
      But the Catalan giants have been forced to remove him from their registration of first team players due to their ongoing financial issues.
      Consequently, the teenager may now leave as a free agent in the summer.
      Chelsea have reportedly been in talks with Gavi’s representatives over a potential deal, with one report suggesting Todd Boehly is willing to make him one of the Premier League’s highest earners.
      However, Xavi is desperate to keep the 2022 Kopa Trophy winner and he has questioned whether a move away from Barcelona would be right for him.
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      When asked about Gavi leaving, he said: “I don’t think Gavi would be happy at another club.
      “He has everything here. He is 18 years old. He’s a key player of our team.
      “For me, he’s a footballer that is outstanding.
      “I don’t know what he’ll decide but I think his future is here at the club.”
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      Gavi has featured 40 times in all competitions for Barcelona this season, including 27 times in La Liga.
      He also starred at the World Cup and became the youngest goalscorer at the tournament for Spain with his effort against Costa Rica. More

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      I won the Champions League, featured in Messi’s debut and refused to play for Spain – now I’m known more for politics

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      OLEGUER PRESAS may have had a glimmering football career but he is now more known for his politics.The former Barcelona defender won the Champions League and also played in a certain Lionel Messi’s debut.
      Oleguer Presas was a regular for Barcelona when he playedCredit: Getty
      He ended his career at Ajax in 2011Credit: Getty
      Oleguer played 175 times for the Catalan giants during a five-year spell between 2003 and 2008.
      He was part of the squad that beat Arsenal in the 2006 Champions League Final, alongside club legends such as Carles Puyol and Giovanni van Bronckhorst.
      Despite playing for one of the best clubs in Spain, he never played for the national side, instead opting to represent Catalonia.
      He left the LaLiga side in 2008 for Dutch giants Ajax.
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      The defender spent the rest of his career in Holland before hanging up his boots in 2011.
      And he is indeed very proud of his career.
      Speaking to Diari de Barcelona, Oleguer said: “I am proud to have arrived at Barca, for me this is success.
      “Then you win a Champions League or you don’t, or a league… It depends on many factors.
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      “What is the result of effort and dedication is this entire trajectory. I’m proud of that, yes.”
      However, he is not living off his footballing career and instead has gone on to support political causes and Catalonian nationalism.
      Despite also winning two LaLiga titles, politics was always on his mind.
      As many of his team-mates went on to play for Spain, he rejected the chance ahead of the national side’s success at the Euros and World Cup.
      He said: “I did not feel this commitment to a national team that does not represent me in any way.
      “On the contrary, it generates rejection and aversion in me for what it represents.
      “The conversation with [Spain manager at the time] Luis Aragones was very frank, honest and calm. It’s not that I can’t feel comfortable, it’s also that I’m not interested.
      “I haven’t seen or followed the European Championships or the World Cups, it doesn’t have much sense.”
      Although he opted to play for Catalonia over SpainCredit: Getty
      And he was aware of the impact his views had on people’s opinion of him.
      He added: “When you’re in the thick of it, some picked me up as an icon because of what I said and some hated me.
      “I was always quite aware of that.”
      In his youth, he was considered to be quite rebellious as he attended protests in Barcelona and Amsterdam.
      When promoting his 2006 book Camí d’Itaca, he said of his political escapades: “I know that everything I say can have a lot of repercussion, but in what sense? Controversy, newspaper articles, radio comments, conversations… and will something change?
      “Even knowing that it will not change immediately, you have to get wet, because indifference is equivalent to giving up.
      “And we have to dream, whatever the cost, because it is the only way to get closer, even if it is with the slow passage of time, to the utopia. We have to be optimistic. Ithaca is not that far away.”
      But now Oleguer is more focused on battling against the commercialisation of the sport he was once at the top of.
      Oleguer is now more known for his politics than his footballing careerCredit: Reuters
      He told VilaWeb: “For years, football has been a business, a spectacle, focused on making economic profits.
      “Fans are no longer fans, they are spectators. Members are no longer members, they are consumers of the club.
      “Everything revolves around money.”
      The former Barcelona star also runs a football project that aims to take away the competitive nature out of football.
      He said at a Tedx event in Tarragona: “I thought training football was the way to go.
      “But I didn’t like the things I saw in traditional training football.
      “In this sense, the project was an opportunity to, from a passionate point of view, hold training sessions where learning was not solely football-related in order to seek the sporting excellence that is usually sought, but with vital learning and where the football aspect was not central.
      “I realised that grassroots football is very focused on performance and from my point of view there are human situations that I don’t like and that make me feel uncomfortable.”
      He now helps a football project that aims to take away the competitive edge of the gameCredit: Getty
      At the project, people get to enjoy the beautiful game without being sucked into the competitive side of football.
      Speaking to Marca, he said: “It has been good for us not having competition for this moment of joint learning that aims to change the most competitive and individualistic dynamics.
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      “If we had started in a competition without doing any previous work, it would have been more difficult to explain to them that the result is not important and that we all have to play together.
      “We live in an unjust society, and I try to do what I do to put an end to inequalities.” More

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      Chelsea ‘ready to make Gavi one of Premier League’s highest earners’ after positive transfer talks with Barcelona star

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      CHELSEA are reportedly prepared to make Gavi one of the top earners in the Premier League.The Spaniard is set to make a decision over his future and whether it lies in Barcelona or away from the club.
      Chelsea reportedly want to sign Barcelona star GaviCredit: Reuters
      Gavi, 18, is one of the most sought-after talents in Europe after breaking into the Catalonian giants’ first team.
      Chelsea are willing to do whatever it takes to get him to Stamford Bridge, with AS claiming that the club will “break the bank” to sign him.
      The outlet also suggested that the player’s representatives have been in talks with the London club and co-owner Todd Boehly and that it has yielded positive results.
      The report does say that Gavi has always preferred the idea of staying at Barcelona, which means the Blues will have to change his mind.
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      He only recently signed a new contract at the Nou Camp, keeping him at the club until 2026.
      However, the Catalan giants are unable to register him as a first-team player due to financial problems.
      If the issue is not resolved then the midfielder could leave on a free transfer at the end of the season as his contract will be void.
      For Gavi to stay at the club, he would have to either reduce his wage demands or players will have to be sold to make room in the wage budget.
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      This season the Spanish international has featured 27 times in LaLiga, scoring one goal and assisting three more.
      He also starred at the World Cup and became the youngest goalscorer at the tournament for Spain with his effort against Costa Rica. More

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      Ex-Barcelona star’s stunning Wag joins no bra club and wears see-through dress sending fans into meltdown

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      JESSICA GOICOECHEA has stunned fans as she joined the no bra club.The partner of ex-Barcelona star Marc Bartra left nothing to the imagination as she posed in a pink see-through dress.
      Jessica Goicoechea joined the no bra clubCredit: Instagram
      As she wore a transparent pink dressCredit: Instagram
      It is not the first time she has worn revealing clothesCredit: Getty
      The model wowed as she wore this dress for the Idolo AwardsCredit: Instagram / @goicoechea
      Jessica, 26, uploaded a collection of snaps of herself wearing the revealing dress on Instagram.
      And fans loved the pictures as they amassed over 70,000 ‘likes’ in under 12 hours.
      And many commented on how amazing she looked.
      One fan commented: “From another world 😍.”
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      A second wrote: “God, what a woman 😍.”
      While a third said: “Goddess of another world.”
      Another simply added: “So beautiful.”
      The model has 1.8million followers on the social media platform.
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      It is not the first time she has flaunted her stuff, as she wore a very revealing dress to the second edition of the Idolo Awards.
      Her partner, Bartra, played for LaLiga giants Barcelona across a six-year spell between 2010 and 2016 before moving to Borussia Dortmund.
      He is now playing his football in Turkey after joining Trabzonspor last summer.
      Jessica is the girlfriend of former Barcelona star Marc BartraCredit: Instagram / @goicoechea
      She works as a modelCredit: Instagram / @goicoechea
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      Man Utd legend Gary Neville fires brutal comeback to Chelsea troll after sharing tactical insight in Real Madrid clash

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      GARY NEVILLE hit back at a troll who mocked his ‘tactical analysis’ during Chelsea’s Champions League clash with Real Madrid.The Blues suffered a 2-0 defeat to the Spanish giants in the first leg of their quarter-final tie at the Bernabeu on Wednesday night.
      Karim Benzema put Chelsea to the sword once again on Thursday nightCredit: REUTERS
      Gary Neville called the Blues going a goal behind moments before Benzema struckCredit: GETTY
      Neville was mocked over his ‘tactical advice’ but hit back at the troll by pointing he guided Valencia to a 2-2 draw against RealCredit: TWITTER
      Chelsea’s goal was breached in the 21st minute by Karim Benzema, a moment Neville foresaw when he claimed the West Londoners were struggling to make the most of their possession.
      After the goal went in, he tweeted: “Too late with my tactical advice!
      “That was coming!!!”
      A troll then proceeded to mock Neville’s brief stint as Valencia manager, which lasted a mere four months.
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      The Manchester United great responded by informing the troll he got a point against Los Blancos, saying: “Drew 2-2 with Real Madrid.”
      The draw with Real was one of the few highlights of Neville’s reign at the Mestalla, which ended following a run of three wins in 16 matches.
      And Neville – who oversaw a 7-0 battering by Barcelona – admits he wasn’t ready for management when he took the gig.
      During an appearance on The Overlap, Neville said: “Roy [Keane] said before about saying no, and I did say no the first time I was asked.
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      “I didn’t want to be a manager. should have said no, it wasn’t for me and I wasn’t experienced enough.”
      He added: “Go over there thinking four or five months.
      “I didn’t think it was gonna be easy, but I just thought I had to basically steer the ship to the end of the season, literally four-five months.
      “And over there I remember looking in the mirror one morning and thinking: ‘I’m struggling.’
      “Didn’t know what to do with the players, was changing systems, all the things that I say on television now you should never do and it was too much.
      “Out of my depth. I needed to get out of there but it was something that I learned a lot from.
      “I wouldn’t do it in the future. I would never do it again.” More