Catalan sports paper El Mundo Deportivo claims that scouts of the English and Italian top clubs are keeping a close eye on the most talented players of the Barcelona youth academy.
English Premier League clubs Chelsea, Manchester United, Arsenal and Liverpool, as well as Serie A clubs Inter Milan,AC Milan and Juventus, would all regularly send scouts to Spain to watch the youth teams of Barcelona in action.
The paper drew up a list of the ten players who attract the most attention of the foreign clubs:
- Atlètic wing attacker Gai Assulin (17)
- Atlètic attacking midfielder Thiago Alcántara (17)
- Atlètic centre forward Rubén Rochina (17)
- Juvenil A attacking midfielder Jonathan dos Santos (18)
- Juvenil A defensive midfielder Oriol Romeu (17)
- Juvenil A left wing attacker Adrià Carmona (16 - picture)
- Juvenil A central defender Marc Muniesa (16)
- Cadete A midfielder Rafa Alcántara (15)
- Cadete A wing attacker Gerard Deulofeu (14)
- Cadete B midfielder Fernando Quesada (14)
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Wednesday 3 December 2008
English and Italian clubs monitoring Barça youth
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we cant let anyone to escape!! visca el barca!!
I would be surprised if more than two of those players ever make the first team. Thats just how it works.. sorry people... you get 1-2 players per generation.. thats it. mostly because there is tooo much competition and not enough money to compete with arsenal..lol
Chelsea, Arsenal, Milan or whoever. Why don't you just start your own Cantera? You're nothing but vultures!
This is ridicuolus!
Marc is right, most of those players wont even make the first team. We cannot keep all of our young talents, nor should we be selfish enough to expect to. Take Fabregas for example, what do u think would have happened if he never left. Do you think he would have had the opportunities to grow as a player that he had at Arsenal? No way, or at least not at the detriment of Iniesta. Keeping him would have done little good to his career or our team. At the time we had Deco, Xavi and Iniesta, where would young Cesc have fit in? He would probably just be getting his chances now.
We have the best youth camp in the world, we produce more world class players than any other team. We cannot keep all of them, but we will keep the best of the best and will only sell players that would never have made it in our squad anyways....like Dos Santos, Merida or even Cesc. In two years time Cesc will be the perfect replacement for Xavi, but right now he would only serve to warm the bench. Like he does for Spain most of the time.
Out of the above list I can see us keeping Gai, Thiago and Deulofeu. The rest prob wouldnt even get on our bench anyways.
Muniesa is definitely going to make it a barca.
Marc stop being such a pessamistic twat...all of the comments i have read have either been so negative they are not worth reading or so wrong i gave up anyway your views on the messi and eto'o Man City situation were laughable although i do take your point on board here with a few of the youngesters but seriously man lighten up and enjoy talking about the best of Barca
gai, alacantara nd ruban shud b n da barcelona squad. if not chelsea shud sign them..
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