Neymar & Messi: Barcelona Dream Team?

Neymar and Lionel Messi could create a football dream team together at Barcelona

The future of Brazilian sensation Neymar is one of football’s biggest conundrums, with speculation rife that Barcelona could look to make the youngster their latest big-name addition in Catalonia this summer.

However, Santos insist the 20-year-old forward is more than happy at the club, and is eager to stay at their until the 2014 World Cup on home soil.

Either way, Barca goalkeeper Victor Valdes has been more than impressed with the player’s performances for the Selecao during the Olympic Games in London this summer, and is certain the player could make an impact at the Nou Camp if he were to move to Spain.

Neymar sold to F.C.barcelona

Barcelona have reportedly won the race to sign Brazil sensation Neymar by securing a $71 million deal for the striker.

The Catalan club is hopeful of bringing Neymar to the Camp Nou after the London Olympic Games although it is unlikely he will move before the 2013-2014 season, Brazilian website Intereconomia reported.
he 20-year-old is currently contracted with Brazilian club Santos until the 2014 FIFA World Cup.

Barcelona is understood to have made a down-payment for the star which guarantees his transfer to the reigning FIFA Club World Cup champion.

News of the deal follows calls from former Brazil international strikers Ronaldo and Rivaldo for Neymar to join a European club to fulfill his potential.

The reported deal ends the hopes of Chelsea, Juventus and Real Madrid, which have also expressed their interest in the starlet.

The deal is the third biggest transfer fee in the history of the sport.

24 selected for Gothenburg and Bucharest

Tito Vilanova has taken every player he can, including Jordi Alba, as well as Villa and Fontàs, for the forthcoming games against Manchester United and Dinamo Bucharest

Jonathan dos Santos, with a sprain, didn’t train on Tuesday and stays in Barcelona

Session in the Gamla Ullevi with Alba but without Alves

The Brazilian has sprained his right ankle and is in doubt for the final game of the preseason on Saturday night against Dinamo Bucharest

One of the attractions of today’s session was seeing Jordi Alba training for the first time under orders of Tito Vilanova

After the game with Manchester United in Gothenburg, the team trained this morning in the Gamla Ullevi, one of the venues for the Women’s European Championships next summer.

Barça will play Dynamo Bucharest in a friendly on August 11

FC Barcelona, considered by most specialists the best team of the day at world level, could play a friendly against Dinamo Bucharest (winner of this year’s Romanian Cup) on the National Arena on August 11, ‘Gazeta Sporturilor’ wrote yesterday. “The contract is 90 per cent complete,” Mihai Craiu, owner of Media Consulta, the event’s organizer, stated for gsp.ro. This would be another extraordinary test for Dinamo, ten years after its famous friendly against Real Madrid (August 26, 2002, 5-2 for Real)