Catalan television channel TV3 reported last night reported that French international left back Eric Abidal already is a Barca player and that the Blaugrana are now approaching Dani Alves from Sevilla. TV3 reported in its programe Telenoticies Vespre last night:

All efforts of the technical secretary are focused on two names. First Eric Abidal, who according to several sources can already be considered as a player of FC Barcelona and the other name is Dani Alves. the negotiations with Dani Alves are not concluded or near to conclusion, due to the fact that Barca´s offer is not even near of Sevilla´s minimum demands.

Eric Abidal was born on 11th of July 1979 in Lyon and started his footballing career at Olympique Lyon. In the season 1999-2000 abidal started to play for Olympique´s reserve team. In 2000-01 and 2001-02 he played for AS Monaco and Lille signed him in 2002-03. He plaed for Lille 62 matches in 2 years and made himself indispensible in this time. He rejoined Olympique Lyon in 2004-05 and won 3 Ligue 1 titles in a row and the French Super Cup in 2005. He made his international debut for France in 2004 and was a regular during the World Cup 2006 in germany, when France lost to Italy in the final.