CESC FABREGAS TALKS OF LIONEL MESSI AND THE FAMOUS LA MASIA.

  When Lionel Messi  joined up with the Barcelona youth academy called THE LA MASIA, THE CASTLE.

 In his batch there were few footballers who graduated with him  from The la Masia. And those that really became famous were Cesc Fabregas, who played for Barcelona,, Chelsea , Arsenal and Monaco.

Another one was Gerard Pique, who played for Manchester United and Barcelona.

  Cesc Fabregas tells us  that Lionel Messi right from day  one impressed the Barcelona youth and senior club. He had a terrific football brain, vision dribbles and accurate passes were there from the very first day.

 But there was a big  error in his play as he would be falling down,often if tackled or even when not tackled. The bones were so week and he lost his balance when he ran fast even.

 But this all changed after those costly injections.

Cesc Fabregas also said a very shy and quiet Lionel Messi would sit by himself all alone at the La Masia, he was homesick. But the senior players at Barcelona like Xavi Hernandez Andres Iniesta and Carles Puyol would visit the kids to spend time and to give them gifts as well.

PLEASE UNDERSTAND LIONEL MESSI WILL NOT SCORE GOALS SO FREELY LIKE BEFORE.

 We must understand that footballers  also age and sooner or later will have to retire from football.

 Now this has  happened to Barcelona, their very famous footballers likeXavi Hernandez ,Andres Iniesta, Javier Masherano,Carles Puyol , Dani Alaves, have retired and players over 32, thirty two years,have moved on like Luis Suarez, Ivan Rakitic and Arturo Vidal.

So with new youngsters from their famous youth academy, wil not be able to fill these very big boots.

 So to expect Barcelona to be second on the table is pure madness.

 To get a team to challenge in the La Liga will take lots of money to spend, and Barcelona and other clubs do ot have money due to the Chinese virus or Covid 19.

 Fans will have to have a great deal of patience.

 And footballers like them are not born everyday, they come once in a blue moon only.

CHELSEA AND MANCHESTER CITY ARE INVESTIGATED FOR SIGNING UNDER AGE PLAYERS..

Now both Manchester City as well as Chelsea , are now being investigated by F.I.F.A , the governing body of football. It now appears that both Manchester city , have both broken the F.I.F.A rule of signing youngsters who are not yet eighteen years. According to F.I.F.A rules ,clubs if they do sign boys who are under eighteen years old , will have to have their parents living not more then fifty meters from the club. F.I.F.A are very strict here as it is a good excuse by saying the kids are joining big clubs, and then child traffic these innocent kids. Even when Lionel Messi joined Barcelona at the age of thirteen years , both his parents left Argentina and relocated to Barcelona, Spain, And another problem facing these young boys is that they are thousands of miles from their home , so they do get homesick. For example Lionel Messi at thirteen years sat quietly and the senior Barcelona players like Xavi Hernandez , Carle's Puyol and Andres Iniesta used to visit the La Massia to cheer these youngsters with gifts. Mind you Manchester City have been found guilty by C.A.S, and were fined 300,000 pounds, and faced a transfer ban as well. Barcelona, Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid and Manchester City have been all guilty of breaking this rule.

SOME TRUTHS ABOUT CARLES PUYOL OF BARCELONA AND SPAIN.

The former Barcelona and Spanish captain Carles Puyol, who was graduate from the Barcelona famous youth academy THE LA MASSIA.THE CASTLE. But during his Academy days at the La Massia, he started of as a goalkeeper, then shifted to be a holding midfielder and then a forward in his own right. But then during his time at Barcelona , the club appointed Louis Van Gaal , as their manager, so it was Louis Van Gaal who made Carles Puyol a central defender at the club,he turned out to be one for Spain as well. And he won the world cup as well as two EURO CUPS ,as well. Louis Van Gaal also wanted Carles Puyol to cut his famous long curls as well. But Carles Puyol flatly refused to cut a single strand of hair. Carles Puyol was also to be sold when at the La Massia to the Spanish club Malaga . But Carles Puyol would have nothing of it as his best friend from the youth academy was promoted to the Barcelona team, he was the famous Xavi Hernandez. He was promoted to Barcelona very soon after, the rest is history.

NO BARCELONA PLAYER HAS EVER WON FOOTBALLER OF THE MONTH.

This is indeed a big surprise and may come as a very rude shock to many neutral football fans around the globe. In all these years not a single Barcelona player has ever won the footballer of the month. And the footballer of the moth of October went to the Eiber player Bojra Baston. Has anybody heard of him by the way. Mind you as Lionel Messi is out injured for two long months , and as many thought Barcelona was a one man show and the Barcelona wheels would roll off. But Luis Suarez and Neymar saw to it that that the wheels would not roll off by scoring eleven goals.but neither have been chosen either for player of the month. Neither did Andres Iniesta, Carles Puyol, Xavi Hernández Thierry Henry Lionel Messi , Luis Suárez, Neymar It clear looks like there is some one who is very keen to see that no Barcelona have won this footballer of the month.

BARCELONA B TEAM COULD USE ELCHE FINANCIAL WOES TO BE PROMOTED.

The Spanish giants Barcelona B team was relegated to the third tier in Spain as they came at the bottom of the table in Tier B. Now this has meant their young footballers want to go and join clubs in Europe., or even on a years loan to get experience., players Like Alan Halilovic , dubbed the new Luka Modric , and Sergi Samper who wants to be sold to Arsenal But now Elchi have big financial problems , they have not paid their players weekly salary as yet.. Their debt is 7.2 million Euros or 5.1 million pounds. The club has been told to pay the money by 31/72015. Which they are in no position to pay up. So it now looks likely that Barcelona will pay up the fine, and take the place of Elchi in the B. Division. It is a well known fact Barcelona team grow good youth players in these two divisions Lionel Messi, Xavi, Carles Puyol all came from here.

WHAT WAS THE CRISIS AT BARCELONA MAY I KNOW.

Barcelona appointed Luis Enrique as their manager after having a terrible year earlier. Luis Enrique joined Barcelona from Real Madrid during his career, and not like Luis Figo or Michael Ladrup who left Barcelona for Real Madrid. The season started badly with Real Madrid winning twenty two matches in all in a row. Barcelona had inside problems the sporting director Andoni Zubizeratta resigned followed by Carles Puyol as well. Barcelona then lost to Real Sociedad, things were at the lowest at Barcelona. There were even talks of Lionel Messi not seeing eyeball to eyeball with Luis Enrique, and the gossip was that Lionel Messi wanted to leave Barcelona. But things changed in January Real Madrid started loosing matches one again. And this year Barcelona won the treble for the second time in their illustrious carrers. Another point which the Barcelona players did not agree with Luis Enrique was his rotation method. But in the end Barcelona won the La Liga with a four point margin. And also won the Champion League with a 3-1 score against Juventus. So what were the crisis at Barcelona may I know?

GERRARD PIQUE WILL NOT BE JOINING THIS CLUB.

Manchester United fans were hoping that their former player Gerrard Pique would be leaving Barcelona and rejoin Manchester United from mighty Barcelona. But Gerrard Pique has given them a rude shock , as he has told THE ELMUNDO DEPORTACOUNA that he will be playing for Barcelona for a few more years at least ,whether it is six years or more he just can not say , but he does want to retire at F.C.Barcelona. The big question I ask Manchester United is why did they sell him back to Barcelona. in the first place? After all he has been a gratuate from Barcelona s LA MASSIA their youth Accademy from where Lionel Messi, Carles Puyol and Xavi Hernandez came from.

NOW BARCELONA OFFER FIFTEEN MILLION POUNDS FOR THOMAS VERMAELEN.

Now it appears that the Spanish giants have offered fifteen million pounds for the Belgian Thomas Vermealen, who is center back. The price gradually increased from 10.3 million to 15 million pounds.The reason for it to increase was that Manchester United had offered to pay Arsenal fifteen million pounds, but it appears Arsenal wanted the Manchester United player Cris Smalling as part of the deal, and that Manchester United were not at all willing to do, so they dropped out of the race to sign him. But the big question is will the 28 year old Belgian fill in those giant boots left by Carles Puyol, who retired last year due to repeated knee injuries.

BARCALONA COULD GO ALL OUT TO BUY THOMAS VERMALEAN.

Now as barcelona were very keen to strengthen their defence , after the departure of Carles Puyol, and the very bad defence shown by Gerrard Pique. They made an offer of34 million pounds for Marquinos from P.S.G. .But it was rejected straight away. Now Barcelona want the Belgian defender from Arsenal , Thomas Vermalean, as he has lost his place to Per Mertsacker . And he will not com in the price of 34 million pounds he willl cost around ten to twelve million pounds.

HE HAS REPLACED CARLES PUYOL AT BARCELONA.

Barcelona have gone and replaced their long serving captain and central defender Carles Puyol, yes it wa a hard job to find a good replacement. The player chosen to fill the boots of Carles Puyol at Barcelona will be the French central defender Jeremy Mathieu . Now Jeremy Mathieu was got from Valencia for 15 .8 million pounds. Jeremy Mathieu who is also thirty years old becomes the costliest defender.

DAVID LUI Z COULD BECOME THE COSTLIEST DEFENDER IN HE WORLD.

The Brazilian defender David Luiz , He could now be on his way to France, with money rich club P.S.G. He was bound to leave Chelsea as Jose Morinho wanted to sell him for a high price , so he can buy a very good striker , the Brazilan born Spaniard Diego Costa was the target, and as he would not come cheap. In fact Barcelona had come forward to buy David Luiz , Barcelona wanted him to replace their long serving captain Carles Puyol of fifteen years to the Spanish giants. It is also reported that Danny Alaves is also on his way from Barcelona after eleven ears at the club. He will also join P.S.G.

DAVID LUIS CHOOSES CHELSEA OVER BARCELONA..

 The Brazilian footballer david Luiz , who plays his club football in England with Chelsea, has said that the Spanish giants  Barcelona had come forward to buy him this summer, and they were willing to pay 65 million pounds for him.
 The main reason was they wanted to replace their barcelona captain Carles Puyol, who is now 35 years old, and who has now suffered frequent injuries and  has also gone under the knife a few times recently, and we can honestly say his long and glorious career is almost over.
But david Luiz has rejected the offer , he says Chelsea is a better club, and to be with a club that has won the champion league often is not good.
 Whether that was the reason  er do not know, but he has been making a few major mistakes for both club and country recently.
 He refused to join Barcelona even after Neymar and Danny Alves  his Brazilian team mates spoke long and hard to him.

BARCELONA WANT DAVID LUIZ TO STRENGTHEN THEIR DEFENSE ..

 Barcelona are very keen to buy the Brazilian defender who plays his club football at Chelsea..
 David Luiz joined  Chelsea from Benfica for 21 million pounds. So he will be a costly player to buy.
 Barcelona had trouble in their defense  last year. Their captain Carles   Puyol had many injuries as well as had undergone a few knee operations, and to add to that he is now in his thirties  , so the look out has started.
Another defender who missed a great deal of the two sesons was Eric Abidal, who had a tumor  removed, and later had a liver transplant as well, with this and growing age , his days at Barcelona were over.. Barcelona did not renew his contract.
 Barcelona felt the loss of these players , especially  in the champion league last year.
 They are now willing to pay Chelsea 30 million pounds, and if that bid fails  they are willing to pay 40 million pounds.

DAVID LUIZ FUTURE AT CHELSEA IS UNCERTAIN.

David Luiz is going to have crunch talks with Jose Mourinho, who has taken over as the new coach of Chelsea for a second time. Even though the previous Chelsea coach and board saw the Brazilian as a future captain for Chelsea. But he does not fall as a defender according to Jose Mourinho, he is more a midfielder to him. David Luiz had joined Chelsea for twenty one million pounds. He has scored some lovely free kicks goals, especially ones against F.C.Basel. Now Barcelona have come forward and are willing to pay Chelsea twenty one million pounds for him.He is wanted as a replacement for their long serving captain Carles Puyol. And injury to Gerrard Pique is also in question. Yes indeed he has made a few mistakes , and also gave the ball away to easily.

COULD BARCELONA COME FOR ARSENALS TRIO?

It is reported in THE DAILY STAR that Barcelona are very keen on the Arsenal trio. The trio are Abou Diaby, Jack Wilshere and Thomas Vermalean. If they do get them that would mean that Barcelona have pinched a player in each of the three years. First Cesc Fabregas, this year Alexander Song. But Barcelona did not show much interest then as all three have come from a long time injuries. These targets are wanted to replace aging stars of Barcelona Carles Puyol and the Master Xavi Hernandez. This is clear at the young talent Arsenal spot and develop, just like getting uncut diamonds smoothened and polished.

ERIC ABIDAL TO HAVE A LIVER TRANSPLANT.

The French footballer and world cup and Euro winner, who plays his club football with Spanish giants Barcelona , and who is 32 years old now.
Last year he had a tumor removed from his liver, but now the Barcelona website say that Eric Abidal will now undergo a liver transplant. The date is not yet set.
But one thing is very clear all football fans where ever they are, and which club they support will be with him in their prayers .That the liver transplant will be a big success, and the body will accept the new organ, without a rejecting chance.
The Barcelona captain Carles Puyol , has said this was a very rude shock for the entire club, and all its fans world over.
After Eric Abidal had the tumor removed, he then played in the champion league final, and wore the armband and also lifted the trophy. But it is not possible for him to recover in time for the Euro 2012.

BSRCELONA WANT GARY CAHIL.

It is reported in the Daily Star, that the mighty Barcelona, the Spanish giants are very keen to buy the Bolton Wanderers defender Gary Cahil for a sum of 10 million pounds. Barcelona have been watching him for a while now, as Barcelona coach feels that he is the right person to fill the shoes of the aging captain Carles Puyol, who has been injured often as well lately.
Arsenal and Arsene Wenger were also keen for him, but Bolton Wanderers were asking a huge 17 million pounds. But he was not worth that much, the price was very high so that the club could make money . The club has a debt of 93 million pounds.
Bolton have become aware that he will be lost in the final year of his coontract ,and will like to make the money.