MASCH OFF TO BARCA

MASCH OFF TO BARCA

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Word has been doing the rounds for a while now that Barcelona were sniffing around Javier Mascherano, but nobody really has anything concrete on the player's intentions. The Daily Mail seems pretty confident though. They describe Masch as a 'wantaway' star, and say he will indeed leave Liverpool for Cataluyna this summer, largely because his wife apparently doesn't fancy life in Blighty. The paper reports that Barcelona are preparing a bid worth £35million, which rather optimistically values young Bojan Krkic at £15million. In case you're mathematically deficient, that means they will chuck £20million and the wee striker at Liverpool and hope they fling Masch the other way. Still, that might not work, given that Rafa Benitez said in no uncertain terms that roughly double that fee would not be enough for their man.