Jun 28, 2012

FC Barcelona Finalize Jordi Alba Deal

FC Barcelona management has confirmed that they have everything in place to sign the Spanish left-back, Jordi Alba from his club Valencia as soon as the player return from International duties. It was rumoured that Barca had a deal to sign the player even before the Euro 2012 started. Now it looks like a very good thing as hi performance in Euro naturally should have upped the price a lot. Barca will pay 14 Million Euros for the rising Spanish star, who once was a member of Barca youth team. It is not clear how the payment is structured. Barca were actually willing to pay only 11 Million Euros and it looks like we will be only paying 11 million now and will pay 3 million as bonus. Jordi Alba is expected to sign a deal which will tie him with the club for the next five years.

Jun 15, 2012

Tito Vilanova Officially Signs as Barca Manager

It's official, finally! Tito Vilanova has been officially signed as the manager of FC Barcelona and he has been given a two year term. He has been identified as the successor for Guardiola for sometime, but the signing of that went into big trouble. Actually in the past two weeks there were rumours of Barca looking for other options. But finally everything fell into its place and hooray, we now have our coach. Tito's first official game in charge will be the super cup against Real Madrid. Eventhough he is suspended for the first leg (suspended because Mourinho poked the finger into him), there is a chance that he will make it for the first leg. Actually RFEF is worried about the prospect of Mourinho missing the Super Cup first leg that they are all ready to waiver the punishment.