Transfer Rumors

Perhaps more than any other sport, soccer's trade rumors fly fast and thick, with most of them proving to be pure speculation. Some of today's latest rumors have Ronaldinho going to Inter, Drogba to Barcelona, Giovanni Dos Santos leaving Barcelona, Tottenham trageting Fred, etc. It seems that any time a player opens his mouth during the two transfer periods, hope and change reign supreme. If a player says he would like to play with someone on another team, or would like to play under a certain coach, the presses start rolling, the rumors fly across the continent. Enough, I say. Let me know when Nicholas Anelka has been bought for $30 million. Let me know when Barcelona loses some great players. Until then, let the fans speculate and don't get our hopes up. Plus, Drogba on Barca? They're enemies (if you haven't seen the knockout rounds between Barcelona and Chelsea from 2004/2005 and 2005/2006, check them out now), and Barcelona already has too much attacking talent, even with injury-prone stars such as Thierry Henry, Lionel Messi and Samuel Eto'o, not to mention Gudjonsen, Ronaldinho, Bojan Krkic (kid is amazing) and Giovanni Dos Santos. Barcelona doesn't need another goalscorer, or another player anywhere else, except perhaps a natural right-back. Barcelona signed enough great talent over the summer, just let them gel: Gabi Milito has been a rock at the back, Toure Yaya is a great d-midfielder, Eric Abidal has been great on the left, and Henry had his best game of the season against Murcia this past weekend.