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Isaac Cuenca, very happy with his starting place in the Champions League line-up on Tuesday against Milan, says he is fully focused on "doing things the best way possible to help the team".

In a short time he’s gone from being on loan to Sabadell, playing in the Second Division B, to becoming a Barça first-team player, having first played in the reserve team. Perhaps Isaac Cuenca could hardly imagine on the day of his official debut with the first team, on October 2oth, 2011, against Viktoria Plzen in the Champions League, that Josep Guardiola would include him in the starting line-up in the return leg of the quarter-final against Milan. "I have no time even to think about it. I'm enjoying the moment and each day I try to improve so I can help the team, and, in turn, become a better player" he said about the current dream he’s living.

According to the Barcelona winger, the fact that Josep Guardiola chose him to be in the starting line-up against Milan was a complete surprise: "I just felt really happy, the truth is that I didn’t expect it at all. When I was told that I would be playing I was thrilled. I’m very happy". In the same vein, Cuenca explained that once a player knows he’s in the starting eleven, "it doesn’t matter who you’re up against.......you just think about doing things the best way possible to help the team".

The rapid evolution of his career has done nothing to change his day to day routine: "I play in bigger stadiums with more spectators, and now people recognise me more in the street, but my life hasn’t changed".

Totally oblivious to the comments made about referees, and happy for Barça having achieved the fifth consecutive appearance in a Champions League semi-final, Cuenca said they think more about " what we have done more than what is being talked about from outside.....we’re dedicated to playing the best possible way and not thinking about other things. We’re delighted to continue making history". (via FCBarcleona.cat)

Clubs across Europe tempt the emerging values of Barça despite being shielded and the majority.
Tello, the last to exploit and under contract until 2013 and is the focus of several 'big'.

The cantera azulgrana is hotter each passing day. Grassroots football azulgrana not to generate talent and European clubs do not lose sight. Nobody forgets that Arsenal is always ready with the cane, as it did in its day with Cesc and a few months ago, with Toral. But not only is the club 'gunner' who tempts the young talents. In recent months, given the strong commitment of Pep Guardiolayouth of the filial pull to overcome the many casualties of the first team, the directive Barcelona has found that they collect the bids for these talents.

The latest exploit has been Cristian Tello and has already attracted interest from clubs such as Valencia, Málaga, Benfica and Liverpool, who does not miss that out of contract in 2013 and that, therefore, is just over a year to be free. Andoni Zubizarreta something also noted in his red book and you want to solve as soon as possible by extending the contract of the squad.

Not only receives offers Tello, whose contract has a loophole to try to take it, but also those who are already shielded by the board azulgrana. likes of Isaac Cuenca, Sergi Roberto, Marc Bartra, Martin Montoya, Rafinha Alcántara or Jonathan Dos Santos have received calls from hustlers of all stripes eager to do business faster (with transfers or disposals) ... but also of serious clubs.

Because that's where the concern lies FC Barcelona: it's not only willing intermediaries movements quick money, but also are finding many offers real, hard cash, clubs French, Italian, German, Portuguese and English.

Some offers, being serious, involve a danger that footballers are raised go looking for more money and more minutes. FC Barcelona confident in his players a lot because he knows they have a huge incentive: the large number of canteranos that pulled the Pep Guardiola. Here it is to train and play with the first team is not a promise without foundation, is something tangible and that many of them have already tasted. Then yes, there is another side of the coin, first team quality is so spectacular that take minutes is very expensive. That is, there may be young people who think that being in Barça will not play great and that the reserves are too small and therefore weigh a way out.

The termination clauses of all those who have gone or will go, except the Deulofeu-are high but when a player is 'poison' money is hard to have it at home. And Pep and Zubi are very clear: a distaste better not be anybody.

The FC Barcelona youth system is in the media spotlight is not a secret world. The lower levels of the organization azulgrana are a reef and are constant scouts attending the Ciutat Esportiva Joan Gamper and Mini Estadi.

One day I certainly will not forget the club is the day after the win (4-0) BATE Borisov in the 6th round of the Champions League group stage on 6 December last 2011. That day, nine of the ten holders of Pep Guardiola was the quarry. All but Pinto and Maxwell. And on the bench, five of the seven substitutes were formed at Barça. All but the goal Oier Olazabal and Kiko Femenía. And the superiority of the Belarusian team, which fell to goals from Sergi Roberto, Montoya and Pedro (2), was overwhelming.

The international reaction after the European bashing La Masia was immediate and overwhelming: the club received ten bids for ten players other than the cantera. Aware that the protagonists against BATE were not regular starters, clubs Europeans believed that FC Barcelona claudicaría more easily to their demands. In the club azulgrana, while the feeling was bittersweet: pleased that Europe covet their pearls, but on the other side believes that this can be distracting. (via MD)

The Barça player Isaac Cuenca, made his first press conference as a first team player. The canterano, one of the revelations of this season, Víctor Valdés has defended against attacks by Diego Armando Maradona. "I do not think is right. He is the best goalkeeper in the world to me and it is showing" Cuenca said. (via MD)

The lad from Reus, who gave his first press conference as a member of the team, explained that the squad has a "family" and "humble" atmosphere.

Isaac Cuenca has been in the Barça first team, officially, for only a short time. Up to now he hasn't got to thoroughly know all the members of the squad. They have all really impressed him. "Everyone surprised me with their humble attitude. You would think that, in a dressing room where players have won so much, there may be a less familiar atmosphere, but it's not so", he said in his first press conference, where he acknowledged that " he was a bit tense".

Cuenca admitted that he looks at all his teammates so he can learn more each day. "I try to use them as an example, and I try to watch them in matches and training sessions so I can learn more", he said. The winger, who wanted to thank Guardiola for giving him the opportunity to play in the first team, didn't reject the parallel cases of Busquets and Pedro, although he confessed that "every story is different".

In his case, his opportunity came early, because of injuries at the start of season to Afellay, Alexis, Pedro, and later, Villa. "It's better that the team doesn't have any injuries, but maybe that's what gave me the minutes at the start. But I prefer that everybody is fit, to compete at 100%", he said. His talent, of course, helped him to succeed and establish himself in the first team.

About their chances in the League, he expressed himself along the same lines as his teammates: "We know it's difficult and complicated, but we must try to win every game to keep the Title alive, in case Madrid stumble". (via FCBarcelona.com)

Barcelona boss Pep Guardiola is ­planning a major shake-up to help launch a full-scale attempt to sign Gareth Bale this summer.

Guardiola has put Tottenham flyer Bale at the top of his transfer wish-list, ahead of Valencia’s Jordi Alba and AC Milan defender Thiago Silva. They are also keen to land Brazilian ­superstar Neymar to strengthen their forward line.

Barca are ready to offload 20-year-old forwards Isaac Cuenca and Cristian Tello and midfielder Jonathan Dos Santos, 21, to help fund the move for Bale and are also willing to propose a players-plus-cash deal.

They are prepared to listen to offers from England similar to the buy-back deal which took Oriol Romeu to Chelsea in the summer.

Arsenal are watching developments on Cuenca and Tello, while Chelsea are keeping tabs on all three youngsters.

Tottenham insist that Bale is not for sale, but may be facing a major battle to fend off interest from the European champions. (via Daily Mirror)

The technical staff seemed to pay homage to their alignment to the Dream Team, which is clearly bet by placing two men stuck to lime.

Tello is a pure winger, something very difficult to find, "said Guardiola minutes after use, before the Real Sociedad, two players with different profiles but the same species, one that ultimately cost seen in the Camp Nou. And much more twice.

The technical staff recovered the double figure of the winger than at other times had been law in the starting lineup. Tello and Cuenca became Txiki and Goikoetxea for a day. Both were part of the Dream Team and occupied for several seasons bands in the whole coaching Johan Cruyff. Despite Guardiola has given new and more sophisticated weapons system that the Dutch introduced in Barça, before the Real Sociedad found that attack honor back to the origins. The continuity of the two homegrown depends on many factors, but for now, Cuenca is now first team player and Tello, little by little, is earning the right to be, at least until end of season.

Both want a career in a team that historically has had people glued to the lime. The winger example of a pair of the newest of Overmars and Quaresma, although lesions of the Dutch and had little patience with the Portuguese did not allow a regular match on grass. In fact, only shared clothing Rijkaard's first season.

Yes they did other players who lived in the lime, from which unfolded its full potential. Luis Figo, whose centers are now compared with those of Cuenca, was perhaps the last major point that has been Barça. Only his move to Real Madrid overshadowed his career as Blaugrana, although the titles and numbers speak for him leaving. Also won Giuly, who he lived the explosion of Leo Messi, let alone performance or Simao gave Geovanni Deiberson. The question is to know what would have happened if his time had been different. Barca is a team accustomed to wingers and for a long time, became absolute champion of the species. Cuenca and Tello are part of that heritage that Pep Guardiola once again put on the front line against Real Sociedad. The Sabadell scoring and claiming it held a figure that is still alive at the Camp Nou. (via SPORT)

Carles Puyol has surprised this morning by hanging a picture on his twitter . The La Pobla de Segur has asked his followers who was the guy in the photo. The answer was not very difficult as that child has not changed much. That young man, then a fan of Captain, now shares a dressing room with him. This is obviously of Isaac Cuenca.

Now deluxe reinforcements of Pep, both had to leave to be able to return.
Cuenca's idol is Michael Jordan, Tello was inspired by Saviola, Ronaldinho and Ronaldo.

Isaac Cuenca and Cristian Tello , the last two discoveries of Pep Guardiola , have followed parallel paths down to touch the top of the first team. The first, born in Reus on April 27, 1991, debuted at Barcelona on 10 October last year against Viktoria Plzen in the Champions League, when he replaced Villa in the 87th minute.

The second, born in Sabadell on August 11, 1991, he did only 20 days as a starter in the Copa del Rey against L'Hospitalet in Feixa Llarga. Both belong to the generation of Thiago Alcantara, but unlike the Spanish-Brazilian, who has been climbing from the lower grades, both Cuenca and Tello were the first to leave Barca and then come back and fulfill his dream.

The Reus left loan the last season to Sabadell and the beginning of this, although it did not come much Eusebio plans to act on the B, Pep-which had good reports of his from his friend gave Carreras-Lluís the alternative and established him in the first team following Villa's injury. Tello, meanwhile, came into Barça with 10 years from the equipment in his neighborhood-the-Rull Can-fry shone as being the top scorer trophy Maspalomas in 2003 - and cadet, but stalled as a junior. That's when Barça decided to first transferring it to the Damm and then not renew. No contract, Tello tried his luck at Espanyol, where he returned to dawn, to the extent that Pochettino have offered information about the first team when it comes time to renew the contract. Tello welcomes the proposal but would rather return to Barca, even knowing that will have to win a seat from the subsidiary. On November 9, dreamed would come his debut at the Camp Nou: two goals and assist in the match against Hospi. Following there, and given the losses that have accumulated then to Guardiola , Tello has earned a place among the elderly.

While Cuenca opened last Wednesday dorsal '23' in honor of his idol Michael Jordan , just after signing his contract with the first team, Tello was inspired as a child in Saviola, Ronaldinho and Ronaldo. (via MD)

After the match in Mestalla, the FC Barcelona players José Manuel Pinto and Isaac Cuenca completed an anti-doping control. (via FCBarcelona.cat)

On Tuesday afternoon, Isaac Cuenca signed a contract to extend and improve his association to FC Barcelona until June 30, 2015. The striker has become a full member of the first team.



The extension and improvement of Cuenca's contract was signed at the Ciutat Esportiva Joan Gamper, minutes before the second training session of the day. Isaac Cuenca was joined by his family and his agent, Josep Maria Orobitg. FC Barcelona was represented by the president of the Club, Sandro Rosell, the vice president for the sports area, Josep Maria Bartomeu, and the director of the sports area for football, Andoni Zubizarreta.

The player and club announced last Friday that they had reached an agreement until June 30, 2015 and this was set down in writing this afternoon. Cuenca is now a professional first team footballer, wearing number '23'. (via FCBarcelona.cat)

Isaac Cuenca trained this morning as a Barça B player but this evening he'll being doing likewise as a member of the first team. That´s because he is signing a new contract with FC Barcelona this afternoon at 16.30. (via FCBarcleona.cat)

The overflow and the sidelines are fashionable in the 'Pep Team'. Old school wingers are back at Camp Nou.

There was a time when La Masia seemed to be the exclusive means of touch, but there was little news front for the first team. The rams, even winger, were a thing of the factory. Since the explosion of Messi, and especially with the arrival of Guardiola, the winger rise of the first team is a constant. Of the 22 'children' that have debuted with the coach, seven (Assulin, Nolito, Pedro, Cuenca, Tello, Deulofeu and Rafinha) can occupy a position for which Guardiola has clinical eye.

Peter led the way, against all expectations sensation Cuenca and Tello is the latest step in asking. "A dream? Debut at the Camp Nou, "said the RFEF summer. Said and done. Cristian stepped the enclosure azulgrana and scored two goals in Cup AL Hospitalet Guardiola After the meeting could not help but smile when asked. "It has many conditions. It can break in one on one and involved much of the game. " After a lull in the team, Tello remained in the branch confirming expectations and improving its Achilles heel. "I need a break point. He is wrong faster than Pedro and Cuenca. It has one point less than Isaac in this section, but then has more goal. Peter is an established player, "said Under-21 coach Luis Milla.

For the three ends coach have a similar profile, much to the style of the school club, in line with the movements of the first team. "We know of the lower. They are players that give amplitude and cause mismatches. Fit into the mechanics of the first team. "

The subsidiary, Tello has become an undisputed player with electrifying football, bold in one on one. In total has scored five goals and passed ahead of players like Femenía and Deulofeu. "It's one of the fastest category and is a very sweet moment," recalls Muniesa. "It is a higher level than most players and many of First Second. Its speed, change of pace and class imbalance are, "he stresses, categorical, Eusebio.

Luis Enrique Tello was recognized as a major influence on the maturation of his game and ensures that looks at players like Fernando Torres and Jesus Navas for further growth. Villarreal appeared before the changed the dynamic of the meeting. His explosiveness and bold yellow and distempered the whole his was the move that ended with a shot from Cesc in the bar. "I did what the coach told me, facing the full-back of my band," he said after the meeting.

The draw left a bittersweet taste footballer but he felt comfortable in the first requirement. Faced with a very tough opponent. "I'm very happy with my debut, but dissatisfaction with the outcome. The call was already a prize and play has been impressive. "

With Afellay, Iniesta and Villa injured the tip of Sabadell could take minutes to return to the first team soon. In Gerard Deulofeu subsidiary, for many the great promise of the lower, is another way. The club wants him away from the spotlight and continues to mature in Second awaiting that achieves the maturity to compete with the first team. The doomsayers are predicting the end of the ends for years. With Guardiola are far from becoming an endangered species. They are more fashionable than ever. (via SPORT)

Barca just did with the continuity of one of her pearls, the young attacker Isaac Cuenca, with which it has reached an agreement to extend the contract until 2015.

The player will sign the commitment of the institution's offices on Tuesday, day 31, which ends the Barcelona of the contract extensions that have most resisted, for their own young talent.

Once you have reached this agreement, the Barcelona put an end to all contacts that Barca had opened the dressing room, waiting for the next to enter negotiations is the coach, Josep Guardiola, who has made a contract review every year .

The player expressed his enthusiasm to renew his Twitter account. "Who would have thought me a few months ago. Player of the best team in the world. The dream starts today," said excited.

Probably Cuenca premiere next Wednesday against Valencia in the semifinals of the Copa del Rey a new dorsal credited as first team player. All indications are that this will be the race number 23. (via SPORT)

The player will sign his new contract on Tuesday, January 31st.

The FC Barcelona player has agreed to extend his contract with the Club until June 30th, 2015. Cuenca will sign his new contract on Tuesday, January 31st.

Cuenca made his official debut with FC Barcelona’s first team in the Champions League match against Viktoria Plzen, since then he has regularly trained and been named to Guardiola’s squads. The Barça winger has scored two goals in the league and two in the Copa del Rey. (via FCBarcelona.cat)

Barca's sporting director, Andoni Zubizarreta, said Isaac Cuenca will be the next player grabs at new contract.

The squad ends its relationship with Barça at the end of the season, but the staff responsible for planning was assumed that in the coming days will pass by the offices to extend his contract. "Renewal will close very soon," confirmed in an interview with Catalunya Radio, which also referred to the continuity of Pep Guardiola. "We are not told whether he will or not, but he knows that when you want, you can cross the 50 meters to my office there," said Zubizarreta. "When you ask, how is your theme?, Pep answer that now," said sporting director.

Zubizarreta, also, valued the yield of Barça positively in the clásico against Real Madrid ("any other team would have been thrashed by how he played the Madrid" he said) and revealed that after the removal of the hands of Mirandés Espanyol, sent a message congratulations to Carlos Pouso, coach of Burgos. (via SPORT)

As Barça is losing troops, the role of youth players is growing. One of them, Isaac Cuenca, has already become the first team member for the remainder of the season as Barça has decided not to sign to offset the losses of the injured Villa and Afellay. And Cuenca, out of contract next summer and has offers important, Barça wants to renew as soon as possible. (via MD)

The visit of Martin Ferguson to Camp Nou to watch Barca Cup Osasuna with the intention of obtaining new direct references Barca game Isaac Cuenca was picked up by several internet portals after being unveiled, exclusively, by Miguel Rico on its back yesterday in MD . The arrival at Barcelona to Sir Alex Ferguson's brother, manager of Manchester United, confirms the interest of the club of Old Trafford in the young winger of Barça that finishes contract in next June and is negotiating his renovation for the club azulgrana. The premise of MD won a quick echo in several websites, including the daily Sport, which kept its lead story hours during the day yesterday, all a sign of confidence in the reliability of the information that gives readers MD.

Under the headline 'The United Spy in the Camp Nou', Rico revealed in detail in his back the status of negotiations to renew the player revelation and the growing list of suitors who rely on the latest discovery be Pep Guardiola without paying anything Barça.

Cuenca is now less than six months to end the contract and any club that allows legal negotiations without calling Barça. Cuenca, which charges 80,000 euros a year and a 'plus' for their parties in the first team, he knows through his agent Josep Maria Orobitg that Barça wants to renew based on performance. There are clubs like ManU and Milan, which would ensure a record two million more than if it comes with the low hand, but Basin is clear that your site is next to Barca and Guardiola. (via MD)

Isaac Cuenca is not the work of hearing the siren, apparently, they might be coming from other clubs.

The forward of FC Barcelona B has taken advantage of to the perfection the opportunities that Pep Guardiola is offering him in the first team. So much so that their actions have already aroused the interest of several European teams.

Cuenca contract ends next June 30 and both the technical and Barca want to renew it.

Various British media have speculated that Manchester United, Arsenal and Chelsea walk in the footsteps of the young end. Cuenca would be free to negotiate and, as it is in the last six months of their contractual relationship with the azulgranas.

The idea of ​​going, anyway, there seems to be in the plans of the squad. His desire is to succeed and stay many years at the Camp Nou. This was stated by himself in statements to the program Cuenca 'Mas Esports', COM Radio: "By my head just happens to follow in Barcelona and renew my contract."

Cuenca is happy to have settled on the first team and have continuity with the 'major' for the rest of the season: "Continue in the first team rather than a Christmas present is the gift of life," he said.

The tip was very pleased with how we did things in 2011, a year described as "incredible and unforgettable." (via SPORT)

Cuenca, Montoya, Bartra and Sergi Roberto part of the first team next season, which may also be Dos Santos.

The spate of renovations that have occurred in the last days of Barca players 'B' in specifying that next season the first team players will respond to the intent of Pep Guardiola to build the new boat project, the 2012-2013 season, relying again on the quarry as a complement to the cracks that are currently leading the first team. Up to four players who currently have the tab of the subsidiary will play next season in the Primera Division does not change much if the plan has established the coach. It is about Isaac Cuenca, Martin Montoya, Marc Bartra and Sergi Roberto, with the possibility also that Jonathan Dos Santos is the recruit. The Mexican renewed his contract in early December until June 2015, but that does not mean that Barca are thinking about a possible transfer of the player this summer. In fact, one of the players from the reserves with more offers. If the aspirations of the entity that came, it would not be a problem for Guardiola to continue a player who can act both in the center of the field as right back. What has made it clear that the Mexican is if he stays, will play the first team and not the subsidiary.

In all other cases, it also relies heavily on the four to join the staff of the First Division. The first thing to be resolved is the renewal of Isaac Cuenca, contract ending in June 2012 and still has not reached an agreement. The two parties have shown their willingness to fix the issue and once it is achieved, the end will be the first team for all purposes. In the case of Martin Montoya, who extended contract until 2014, will be the alternative to Alves on the right side. His progress has been dramatic and is seen as the winger for the future. As Bartra, his promotion could go endetrimento of Fontan, who is having little prominence. The player at the moment, not think about leaving. One in which much hope is being deposited Roberto Sergi. That is why even be sold to Keita, club officials have decided not to Oriol Romeu playoffs and give opportunities to Reus. The plan is already underway. (via MD)

The innocence of mundodeportivo.com, barter of 'Niño' by the three canteranos culés.
In 19 hours, the article has seen over 180,000 entries and more than 1,100 comments.

Mundodeportivo.com wanted to join the day of the Santos Inocentes (Holy Innocents) , in which the media tend to pick up false news in jest . He did so with an issue that has been around the world and has broken records on our website : the agreement Barca-Chelsea by which Fernando Torres landfall in the Camp Nou to cover the floor of the injured David Villa in exchange for Martin Montoya , Sergi Roberto and Isaac Cuenca.

The news was false . The three youth players remain in the Catalan club and Fernando Torres , in principle, at Chelsea, although it is true that the future of the 'Niño', because of its uneven performance at Stamford Bridge, is uncertain.

There were many clues to identify the innocent. For starters, the name of the author, Augustine Mequedao . Also the location of the meeting between Chelsea sporting director, Michael Emenalo, and Pep Guardiola: Brescia . Also made ​​sure that Torres signed for the club until 2021 . And the only condition imposed by the homegrown was able to play the Catalunya on 30-Tunisia, a condition accepted by Abramovich, who had managed a private jet to travel to London in the evening after the meeting and to make his debut and 31 in Stamford Bridge against Aston Villa in Premier match.

The final paragraph also evident that it was a joke. Carme , the girlfriend of Cuenca, a political science student and was enrolled at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), one of the world's most prestigious schools in their discipline, to pursue a master, Chelsea, on the other hand, had given a course of plane to Maite , Montoya partner, knowing that the player made ​​him a special pleasure to fly, and finally, Sergi Roberto, the Bachelor of Gold subsidiary, would not travel just because their parents had decided to accompany him his sister Anna to not riot.

The news had impact around the world and in some countries are not aware of the tradition in Spain came to consider it true. The website of Mundo Deportivo, meanwhile, broke records. At half past seven p.m., nineteen hours after its publication, had already registered more than 180,000 entries and 1,100 comments. (via MD)