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clipped from thegoonblog.com Barcelona talk to Cesc Fabregas’ family Over the past month or so we have witnessed one of the most in your face campaigns of tapping up from Barcelona. Its public, against the law and disgraceful. It is widely reported in the Spanish press (Marca, El Mundo, Sport.es) that yesterday there was a lengthy [...]

clipped from www.thesun.co.uk BARCELONA’S new president has made signing Arsenal star Cesc Fabregas his No1 priority. Sandro Rosell was unveiled as the new Nou Camp supremo after scooping a whopping 61 per cent of the vote in the club’s presidential election. He replaces outgoing chief Joan Laporta — the man he famously fell out with in 2005. But despite [...]

Arsenal will face a Barcelona side without influential midfielder Andrés Iniesta after he was ruled out of Wednesday’s Champions League clash with a hamstring injury. The Spain international was replaced just after half-time in last night’s Primera Division win over Real Mallorca and, after undergoing tests today, it was announced that he is likely to be [...]

The Gunners boss has told Arsenal fans angry at the clubs lack of activity in the transfer market to reflect on Barcelona’s success last season after they sold Ronaldinho and Deco and went on to win the Champions League and La Liga FEW Gunners fans need reminding that the past four years have been pretty barren [...]

Yaya Toure, the Barcelona midfielder who is attracting the interest of Arsenal, has turned down a new contract offer from the European champions, giving manager Arsene Wenger hope that he could persuade the player to move to the Emirates Stadium. The Ivory Coast international’s agent Dimitri Seluk, according to a report in the Sun newspaper, [...]