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The long speculation of Cesc Fabregas finding a way to go to Barcelona has seemed to come to an end as Fabregas himself said that he will be staying at Arsenal after a recent interview.

Although many of the Barcelona players felt that the club will find a way to bring over Fabregas where he will enjoy playing with the club with whom he started his career with as a youth coming up in the ranks, it seems as if this will not be the case. Arsenal has already declined a 29 million euro offer for the captain of Arsenal and have said a numerous of times that they will not be selling Fabregas but Barcelona continue to try and make a deal. However, it seems to be final that Fabregas will not be making his way despite his love for the Catalan giants.

“I’m a Barca fan, I’m a socio, as is my grandfather, my uncle, my cousin… I have felt the colours from a young age, I’m Catalan.” Fabregas went on to say to DIR Emotions.  Read more... (514 words, 1 image, estimated 2:03 mins reading time)

Mario Balotelli is one of the most coveted stars available this transfer market. And although the nineteen year old striker is still a little bit rough around the edges many of the world’s biggest teams have begun to bid for the supposedly irreplaceable, young African forward.

And Manchester City is the favored club to win the battle for Balotelli this summer, but Jose Mourinho, the star’s former manager at Inter Milan, decided to give potential buyers a forewarning of what to expect if they land the star:  Read more... (388 words, 2 images, estimated 1:33 mins reading time)

With Raul Gonzalez having already stated his departure from Madrid, Raul went on to finish his deal with Schalke 04, as he went on to sign with the Bundesliga club earlier today. Having acquired Raul on a free transfer from Madrid, the speculation of Raul going to the Germany has finally come to an end as he went on to officially sign with the club earlier today. At 33 years old, Raul will continue his career playing in one of the most physical leagues in the world.

”I’m looking forward to starting on a new challenge. It’s an important challenge for me.” – Raul went on to say in regards to making the switch.

With head-coach of Schalke, Felix Magath, happy with the arrival of Raul, it will be interesting in seeing if Raul will be able to mesh well with the club.  Read more... (401 words, 1 image, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)

Henrique joined Barcelona hoping to make an impact but unfortunately has been loaned out since his arrival in 2008. Having joined Barca in the summer of 08, Henrique failed to make an impression at Nou Camp and was loaned out to Bundesliga club, Bayer Leverkusen, where he eventually found his way back to Barcelona but unfortunately only to be loaned out again.

With Henrique enjoying 22 matches at his stay with Racing Santander, he ended his campaign with a injury in his left knee. It was definitely a tough break for the young 23-year old who hopes to make the Barcelona squad one day but will have another chance to prove himself as he once again will be loaned out to another team who will give him minutes on the field.  Read more... (223 words, 1 image, estimated 54 secs reading time)

Every notice the trend of a professional footballer when they are in the last year of their contract?

First, they claim how badly they want to remain at the place they are at and how they hope a deal will be worked out soon. Then they discuss the possibility of being transferred elsewhere and then debate about where the best place to go would be. Then after they receive some bad press, they claim that they never wanted to leave in the first place and hope a deal can be worked out with their current club.  Read more... (373 words, 2 images, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)

The financial problems that have plagued La Liga in recent years have stretched now to one of the two biggest clubs in Spain. Today Barcelona announced that they lost more than 77 million euros last season.

Sandro Rosell took over from Joan Laporta as Barcelona President and one of the first things he did was have Deloitte come in an audit the books. Laporta had declared that Barcelona had generated a profit of 11 million euros in late June, but the Deloitte audit shows a completely different financial situation.  Read more... (281 words, 2 images, estimated 1:07 mins reading time)

When Raul was called up for first team action in 1994, the Spanish forward was 17 years old and was the youngest player ever to be awarded the great honor of playing for Los Blancos.  Now 15 seasons and over 320 goals later, the Spanish national team all time leading scorer has officially bid adieu to his longtime league family and is expected to join German side Schalke later this summer.     Read more... (385 words, 2 images, estimated 1:32 mins reading time)

Rafael van der Vaart has had trouble finding first team football in the last year with Real Madrid and the writing is on the wall for the Flying Dutchman now that Jose Mourinho has come to town.

Mourinho is renowned for his defensive minded stars and several big names have been on the target list this summer as new additions to los galicticos, but van derVaart’s name is not expected to be on the list of full time players. So the midfielder is ready for some first team action elsewhere. And considering a huge part of why he stayed at Madrid last year in the first place was because of his wife Sylvie’s ongoing cancer treatment in Madrid and it appears to be time to leave now that the super fine lady has successfully battled breast cancer over the last year and the cancer appears to be heading into remission. Sylvie was even at the World Cup fixtures supporting her man recently despite his limited action.  Read more... (633 words, 2 images, estimated 2:32 mins reading time)

Raul will go down as one of the best players to ever wear a Real Madrid shirt. He scored 323 goals in 741 games for Real Madrid and helped them win three Champions League trophies and 16 titles in total while at the club.

But the 33 year-old has bid farewell to Real Madrid fans saying in his farewell press conference:  Read more... (313 words, 2 images, estimated 1:15 mins reading time)