[LaFuriaBlaugrana]

Well, it's on the club website, so I can't live in denial.

Our second signing is likely going to be Ibra, a great player who more or less singlehandedly served as Inter's attack in the past few seasons, but also a player who has many questions.

Joan Laputa is putting his head on the line with this one as far as I'm concerned.

[Cal-FCB]

As much as I really wanted Villa for a whole host of reasons, I can't argue that Ibra will be a bad signing. It's just the price that I disagree with, crazy deal that they've negotiated.

[Impeh!]

hopefully he will bag us a load of goals and messi-like moments


or perhaps closer to ronaldinho with his skill..

[LaFuriaBlaugrana]

Hopefully not a Ronaldinho-esque work ethic

[Los_Merengues]

Good thing he's not Brazilian

[JAMAIN]

Villa would have been the better fit for the Guardiola system. Ibra does not track back. Pep's system works not becuase of the offence but most importantly because of the defence it plays from the strikers down.

A positive though is that he is better in the air than Eto. Alves will finally have a traget for his pin-point crosses.

Ibra and Messi will be unplayable one they get use to each other. Ibra is the total package. A post-player, scorer, passer, good in the air. He will get better service than at Inter from Messi, AI, Xavi and Henry. Not only that, those guys will get service back from Ibra. Eto was good, but he was a predator first and fore most.

I trust Villanova and Pep to tactically work something out to get the best of Zlatan at Barca. He is the type of player that gives us more attacking options than Eto'o does.

The defensive part is something that must be sorted out though as Eto was a big part of the pressing game. If Ibra is serious about proving his doubters wrong (and there are many of them in Europe), he should come ready to listen to Pep and work for the team.

This post has been edited by JAMAIN: 18 July 2009 - 06:33 AM

[Príncipe de Asturias]

David Villa would have been better for sure, and maybe cheaper as Barca wouldn't have to include players as Valencia just want cash. Seems strange to me that Barca opted for Ibrahimovic over a cheaper, younger, more prolific and La Liga proven Villa, makes me think its more about Laporta trying to keep up appearences with the star signings of Perez.

No matter, it appears to be a done deal, and Ibrahimovic is certainly an excited prospect for the league. Not quite so sure how effective he will be for Barca though, I don't think he has as many goals in him as Eto'o and from what I have seen of him he disappears in the big matches. What I was really wondering is how much truth there is to the story that he is willing to take a pay cut to come to Spain, as he has said nothing himself. Because he is the highest paid player in the world, significantly more than Messi, Henry, Xavi and Iniesta - who could rightly demand parity were he to get a wage of the same size, could cost Barca an absolute fortune.

[FCB-Mo]

He's a cunt and i hope he gets swine flu or breaks his leg in some kind of freak accident to stop him from signing for the club.

I don't see how paying €50 million for Villa and keeping Eto'o and losing him on a free next season is any worse than giving Eto'o to Inter along with Hleb and then paying another €40 million on top of that.

[chucka]

Once again i really don't get why we didn't just pay 50 mil and hleb and gudjohnsen for Villa or something like that.

[LaFuriaBlaugrana]

I can't believe we paid almost as much as Ronaldo for a player 4 years older than Ronaldo..Ibra is more technically gifted than Madrid's idiotic signing, but can turn out to be as much as a cancer.

[FCB-Mo]

Ronaldo scores more goals and has more cutting edge than Ibra.

[LaFuriaBlaugrana]

Zlatan scored more goals last season, and his record of 5 goals in Europe the year before that and neither one of them have outstanding goal scoring records in Europe.

[FCB-Mo]

Ronaldo, who is not a proper striker, scored 4 goals in the Champions League and 18 goals in the league last season for United in a far more superior league. Zlatan, a proper striker who is the main man as far as goalscoring goes for Inter, has 1 goal in the Champions League and 25 in Serie A. I don't even want to compare the two the season before that because that season, Zlatan scored even goals in the league than Ronaldo did this season in the Premier League.

I know which player i'd much rather have in my team, especially when it comes to the big stage in Europe.

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neither one of them have outstanding goal scoring records in Europe.

Well done on completely ignoring the fact that Ronaldo was the top scorer in the Champions League that season Zlatan got 5.

[LaFuriaBlaugrana]

How many games did each of them play again?

The EPL is a better league defensively than Serie A, but Serie A is second when it comes to defense by a considerable margin.

[Los_Merengues]

LaFuriaBlaugrana, on 18 July 2009 - 08:18 AM, said:

Ibra is more technically gifted than Madrid's idiotic signing, but can turn out to be as much as a cancer.

Where did you get that conclusion from?

Agent: Inter's Ibrahimovic Is Better Than Real Madrid's Kaka, Cristiano Ronaldo And Benzema Put Together

Mino Raiola does not think much of Los Merengues' new recruits, believing that his client is better then a combination of all three of them...

According to Zlatan Ibrahimovic's agent, not only is his client better than Kaka, Cristiano Ronaldo and Karim Benzema, but he is greater than all of them put together.

Mino Raiola has been busy trying to secure a swap deal in recent days, one that will see his clinet move to Barcelona with Samuel Eto'o heading to Inter.

Speaking to Marca, the agent could not resist a dig at Ibra's potential future rivals, saying, "Ibrahimovic is better than Kaka, Ronaldo and Benzema put together, because he has phenomenal technical ability."

While such proclamations might excite Barca fans, Raiola stressed that deal had not yet been completed, but said he was "calm" about the prospect of both players reaching agreements on personal terms with both clubs.



He's not even better then just Benzema.