Chelsea chairman Bruce Buck has thrown in the towel as The Blues lose steam on Ronaldinho Chase.


The official at Stamford Bridge was frank and truthful about his team's chances of signing Ronaldinho next season, and his response showed that not much hope was being entertained by the English side, after a hail of rumours and counter-rumors greeted the news of transfer surrounding the Brazilian in recent times. In latest reaction to the possibility of Ronnie moving to Chelsea FC, Bruce said:

I don't see it being likely that Ronaldinho will be here next year. Anything was a possibility and certainly there had been rumours and discussions of that, but I don't see it happening.

The main reason the Chairman gave was that:

We are looking to balance some losses at the club, and a player like Ronaldinho will blow up the already huge money spent in recent years on buying new players. We have to focus on less expensive players and hope they will become of great value to us in the future when we want to sell them.

However, the real reason Chelsea may not be continuing their chase for the Barca star is believed to be the outright refusal of FC Barcelona to sit down on the negotiation table with Chelsea FC for talks on a possible transfer of the Brazilian super star.

FC Barcelona's safe hands, Victor Valdes is wary of Levante.


As the Catalan giants aim to close the gap on Real Madrid's five-point lead, the feeling among the fans is that of absolute victory especially after Barca produced the best champions league performance last week by beating Celtic at an away fixture. Valdes, though, is not counting his chickens yet, as he cautions on Levante's new found form:

Levante will be motivated at the Camp Nou. They’ve been getting results lately and have just had an important win against Osasuna.

Read the full interview below:


FC Barcelona's Valdes Warns On Levante.

Mecurial player, Lionel Messi has been crowned the best Latin player in Spain.


Lionel Messi is on the news yet again as the Argentine forward has become the sixth FC Barcelona player in the 17 year history of the EFE Awards to be crowned best player. The youthful wonder-kid has been in spectacular form, and scored an average of 6.5 points per match in all games last season, making him the clear favourite for the award. Messi was presented with the trophy by EFE president Alex Grijelmo and was joined by his parents, brothers and other family members at the ceremony. In his acceptance speech, Messi said:

I am very happy to receive this award. I want to thank the Agency EFE and all the people who are present, to my family and my captain, Carles Puyol. It is beautiful to be able to receive this prize and it gives me extra motivation to continue grow as a player.

Messi beat off competition from Daniel Alves and his Barça teammate Ronaldinho to scoop the award, voted for by the members of EFE.

Six FC Barcelona players have now received the award, and they include four Brazilians and two Argentines. The winners are Brazilian Romario who was the first in the 1993-1994 season, Ronaldo, Rivaldo, Saviola and Ronaldinho, before Messi made it number six. Having won 6 of the 17 awards, Barça tops the ranking of clubs in terms of winners until now.
While presenting the award to Messi, EFE president, Alex Grijelmo said:

Messi is one of those players that I enjoy watching. Today he receives an important prize. They say that he is the new Maradona; he is not very tall, like Butragueño or Aimar, and that is one of the great things about football, that anyone can dream about being a star regardless of their physique.

In a related press conference, FC Barcelona president, Joan laporta paid tribute to lionel Messi, saying:

It is a privilege to have Messi at this club, if Barcelona are more than a club then Messi is more than a player. It’s an honour for us to have him, this club was made for Messi and he was made for this club. It would be great to have him here for the rest of his career. Messi is a player who entertains the fans and he makes everyone enjoy football, it’s a pleasure to have players like him.

Big preparation begins ahead of the March 4th Champions League cracker between FC Barcelona and Celtic.




Ahead of the second leg match between FC Barcelona and Celtic Glasgow, the city council are already in top gear towards making sure everything goes well for both the home team, FC Barcelona, the visiting team, Celtic Glasgow and the host city and its residents in Barcelona.


Read details of the preparations:



The City Of Barcelona Prepares To Welcome Celtic.

Sensing the heat, Real Madrid's Gonzalo Higuain has opened fire on FC Barcelona.


Perhaps, a good way of catching your coach's attention if he has confined you to the substitute's bench is to vouch for your team even when uncertainty is growing. This is the method Real Madrid's striking sub, Gonzalo Higuain has adopted as the young Argentine player publicly dismissed FC Barcelona as serious contenders for the La Liga. Higuain believes the La Liga race is won and lost, but passes his verdict with a customary show of respect to the talents that lie in FC Barcelona. The Argentine said:

We are undoubtedly the best team. Barça has great individual talent, but Madrid have proved they are better. I'm not saying that Barca are not good, but the La Liga title belongs to us and this is final.Even though it looks like Barça are catching up, we have the grounds to stop them from rising to the top.

Real Madrid are five points ahead of FC Barcelona at the top of the La Liga, but the five point advantage was reduced from a wider margin of nine points some few weeks back, through some great display from the Catalan giants, who have won at both home and away, while Madrid lost miserably to Real Betis in their last League match, and failed to secure a victory in their champions league midweek tie against Roma, losing out 2-1.