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Júlio Baptista
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Well, first of all, hi all, I'm new in here!
I'm Spanish, a Barça's supporter, so sorry because of my English. Baptista would be great for Arsenal, he has all what an English team needs: he is very strong, he is fast, he scores a lot of goals per season, he is not bad passing the ball...but the best part of his game is that he is a finisher, if he and Henry play together they can both together score about 45 goals in Premier. He has been pretty impressive in just 2 years, arrived here as a defensive mid-fielder but in Sevilla the coach find ot that he was a great finisher, and here it is. 20 goals first season, 20 goals second season...
I prefer rather Baptista than Hleb, he is more a kind of Premier player, but i have to recognise that Hleb is great too. :wink:
I'm Spanish, a Barça's supporter, so sorry because of my English. Baptista would be great for Arsenal, he has all what an English team needs: he is very strong, he is fast, he scores a lot of goals per season, he is not bad passing the ball...but the best part of his game is that he is a finisher, if he and Henry play together they can both together score about 45 goals in Premier. He has been pretty impressive in just 2 years, arrived here as a defensive mid-fielder but in Sevilla the coach find ot that he was a great finisher, and here it is. 20 goals first season, 20 goals second season...
I prefer rather Baptista than Hleb, he is more a kind of Premier player, but i have to recognise that Hleb is great too. :wink:
BradySeven
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Hi Fanatik, welcome to the board, do you think there is a chance that Seville will sell Batista and if so how much money do you think we would have to pay?
Of course there is a chance, because the player is not happy en Sevilla with his contract, and his prize would be lower if he claims in the FIFA for his contract (in England it doesn't exist, but here in the contract there is always a point that says that "paying X Euros, the contract is over" and you can deal with other teams) and in Baptista's contract this X is really high, and is sallary is not, so he can claim to FIFA because of this and then the X he has to pay for finishing his contract would be lower. Probably if this happens, Baptista would be about 12-15 M Euros (an incredible prize, everybody would want him). Right now, if the contract doesn't change, probably Arsenal would have to pay more than 25 M Euros. :evil:
AFCFan4Ever
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asajoseph said:
Ha look at the link...tribalfootball is not exactly a reliable site, anyways he's just posturing, remember what he said about Reyes and how he tried to play hardball with Arsenal? If Arsenal want Baptista bad enough, he'll come here, funny how he says "everything is negotiable" which means pay me the right price.
AFCFan4Ever
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Birthday or not, if the right figure comes floating into their office...he's gone. No one thought they were going to sell Reyes when they did, this is a similar instance IMO.
Legend#1
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lol.. we're not going to get him.
wer
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Baptista will leave if his wage demands is not reach therefore we have a chance. 
asajoseph
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fanatik,
Welcome to the boards, splendid to have a Barca fan aboard who isn't a complete arsehole.
AFCfan,
Tribalfootball is not the most reliable news site - but it's not because of poor journalism. All of their 'news' is reported from other sources, like Skysports, Marca etc; none of it is exclusive to tribalfootball. They simply choose the most sensationalist stories from around the world the previous day, and re-report them. This means that dismissing it out of hand because it's tribalfootball isn't good enough - you have to go to the original source. In this case, the source isn't clear, so make of the report what you will.
Welcome to the boards, splendid to have a Barca fan aboard who isn't a complete arsehole.
AFCfan,
Tribalfootball is not the most reliable news site - but it's not because of poor journalism. All of their 'news' is reported from other sources, like Skysports, Marca etc; none of it is exclusive to tribalfootball. They simply choose the most sensationalist stories from around the world the previous day, and re-report them. This means that dismissing it out of hand because it's tribalfootball isn't good enough - you have to go to the original source. In this case, the source isn't clear, so make of the report what you will.
asajoseph said:
Hahahahaha, nice to meet you, man!!
Baptista won't ask for a big salary, he just wants a fair one. 3ME would be fine. He's not gonna ask for 6ME like Galacticos do.
The triballfootball link you guys have posted is completely true: the 'president of SevillaFC said that, I saw it on TV.
black187
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It looks like Baptista will go to Barcelona.
Source: http://www.sport.es/default.asp?idpubli ... 4&h=050619
AFCFan4Ever
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That's weird considering his agent said he wasn't negotiating with any Spanish clubs and wouldn't play for Barca or RM but would play abroad if he left Sevilla.
Gurgen
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He should send him a perfumed love letter then if he's so in love.
Legend#1
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I thought Barca didn't have money.
Obvioulsy Barça wats him, and Baptista doesn't have a preference between Arsenal, Barça or Madrid. He will go where he can get more money.
Anyway, Barça was the first team that tried to take him from Sevilla and Barça's squad is plenty of Brazilian player, what would make Baptista's decission easier.
I think that if he had to choose he would decide Barça, but if Arsenal gives him more money he will go to Arsenal.
Right now he cant' go to Barça because there are Marquez, Eto'o and Dinho, 3 foreigners. Oh!! And we don't have a lot of money, but I think there are about 15 MEuros for buying players this year.
Anyway, Barça was the first team that tried to take him from Sevilla and Barça's squad is plenty of Brazilian player, what would make Baptista's decission easier.
I think that if he had to choose he would decide Barça, but if Arsenal gives him more money he will go to Arsenal.
Right now he cant' go to Barça because there are Marquez, Eto'o and Dinho, 3 foreigners. Oh!! And we don't have a lot of money, but I think there are about 15 MEuros for buying players this year.
AFCFan4Ever
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"We are not negotiating a possible move to Real Madrid or Barcelona, as has been suggested.
"But we have been discussing a move abroad."
Direct quotes from his agent, either that paper is just stirring rumors up or he's lying.
"But we have been discussing a move abroad."
Direct quotes from his agent, either that paper is just stirring rumors up or he's lying.
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