{"id":443778,"date":"2011-06-19T06:55:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-19T06:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/19\/barcelona-to-offer-david-villa-to-manchester-city-and-chelsea-for-40m-report\/"},"modified":"2011-06-19T06:55:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-19T06:55:00","slug":"barcelona-to-offer-david-villa-to-manchester-city-and-chelsea-for-40m-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/19\/barcelona-to-offer-david-villa-to-manchester-city-and-chelsea-for-40m-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona to offer David Villa to Manchester City and Chelsea for \u00a340m &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h4>19 Jun 2011 07:55:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"66.6578063794\">\n<div readability=\"13.9668508287\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Liga BBVA: David Villa (FC Barcelona)\" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/129700\/129703_news.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Liga BBVA: David Villa (FC Barcelona)<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p><span readability=\"32.0603389831\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/spain\/125\/barcelona\">Barcelona<\/a> are reportedly preparing to offer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/spain\/1713\/david-villa\">David Villa<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/109\/man-city\">Manchester City<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/96\/chelsea\">Chelsea<\/a> for \u00a340 million.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Mirror<\/em> reports that the Spanish champions are reluctant to do so, but accept it will be the only way to fund the proposed \u00a391m triple bid they are reportedly planning for Cesc Fabregas, Alexis Sanchez and Giuseppe Rossi.<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona\u2019s president, Sandro Rosell, has restricted coach Pep Guardiola to a \u00a340m transfer budget as the club look to cut their debts of \u00a3350m, and Rosell has also said that any further funds must be raised by selling players.<\/p>\n<p>A club source reportedly said: \u201cGuardiola has a list of players he is \u00adprepared to move on to give him more spending power in the transfer market, but Villa is definitely not on that list.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIdeally, he wants to keep Villa \u2013 especially after the impact he made in his first campaign with Barca. He sees David as a big player as his side push for more trophies next season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut he also knows that he may have to sacrifice Villa to finance incoming deals. And Manchester City and Chelsea would be very happy to buy Villa.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Villa only joined Barcelona last summer in a \u00a335m transfer from Valencia, and he scored 23 goals in his debut season at Camp Nou.<\/p>\n<p>Rossi is reportedly close to completing his \u00a326m transfer to Barcelona from Villarreal, with his agent Federico Pastorello saying:\u00a0 \u201cHis dream is to certainly wear the Barcelona shirt and with official negotiation I believe a deal can be done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Continue reading here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/3277\/la-liga\/2011\/06\/19\/2538371\/barcelona-to-offer-david-villa-to-manchester-city-and\" title=\"Barcelona to offer David Villa to Manchester City and Chelsea for \u00a340m - report\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Barcelona to offer David Villa to Manchester City and Chelsea for \u00a340m &#8211; report<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 19 Jun 2011 07:55:00 Liga BBVA: David Villa (FC Barcelona) Related Links Teams Players Barcelona are reportedly preparing to offer David Villa to Manchester City and Chelsea for \u00a340 million. The Daily Mirror reports that the Spanish champions are reluctant to do so, but accept it will be the only way to fund the proposed \u00a391m triple bid they are reportedly planning for Cesc Fabregas, Alexis Sanchez and Giuseppe Rossi. Barcelona\u2019s president, Sandro Rosell, has restricted coach Pep Guardiola to a \u00a340m transfer budget as the club look to cut their debts of \u00a3350m, and Rosell has also said that any further funds must be raised by selling players. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Barcelona to offer David Villa to Manchester City and Chelsea for \u00a340m - report - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/19\/barcelona-to-offer-david-villa-to-manchester-city-and-chelsea-for-40m-report\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Barcelona to offer David Villa to Manchester City and Chelsea for \u00a340m - report - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"19 Jun 2011 07:55:00 Liga BBVA: David Villa (FC Barcelona) Related Links Teams Players Barcelona are reportedly preparing to offer David Villa to Manchester City and Chelsea for \u00a340 million. 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