As we can see, Barcelona have been and will be one of the big spenders during this transfer period. Interestingly, they seem to be very keen for Spanish players. Some of their Spanish players include: Valdes, Pique, Puyol, Xavi, Iniesta, Bojan, Sergio Busquets, Pedro, and Sanchez. Almost half of their team is Spanish! The majority of the starting line up is Spanish too. They have also signed David Villa (Spain) and are trying to sign Fabregas (Spain).










Do you think they are trying to build a mostly Spanish team? If they do, do you think they will be successful?

Its a good thing. Look at inter, no italians in first team except little santon

Well barca is in spain and should contain spanish players. I doubt sergio ramos will go to barca since barca is madrid's big rival. Also casilas. After fabregas, I doubt barca will look at any more spanish players, mostly b/c they got all the good ones already

Well of all the Spanish players, only Villa is a player that wasn't raised at Barça's youth clubs, I. E. La Masia. Valdes, Piqué, Puyol, Xavi, Iniesta, Busquets, Pedro, .... They all have blaugrana blood. And Fabregas and a whole heap of lesser Gods as well. So surely it's pretty great they are able to raise world class homegrown players, right? Better than buying them when they're already 18, or worse, buying world class stars for millions just to see them deteriorate. *cough* Kaka. And Benzema. And Xabi Alonso

This would be a great thing. I'm of the opinion that 75% of a team should be born or be a citizen of that country anyway. This would spur growth and development in youth football again.

Otherwise we have the shambles of whats happening now, with the biggest clubs in Europe poaching the best individuals and youth from anywhere and cheapening the leagues they should actually be playing in instead.

Look at Chelsea and United. They've been investigated recently for poaching 15 and 16 year old kids from other countries. In any other business, this would be a serious crime

As many teams will tell you, talent only gets you so far. Good team chemistry however is what can really get a team winning. Buying players that are familiar with the rest of your team since almost your whole team plays for the same country then is one of the smartest things anyone can do. That player will likely take much less time getting used to his new club since he'll already be used to playing with it's players. And if you can raise all your best players from the same youth academy then you'll have as much team chemistry as you can ask for.

However, chemistry is only so great. What will get you much further than talent or chemistry is passion. If a player loves the club he plays for, he will fight as hard as physically possible for it's success. Many fans would die for the club. Now you take a fan and put him in a kit and give him the ability of some of these players and he will play 3 times as well for the club he supports as he will for any other club. Raising players from barca's youth system, which are almost all local fans of the club, thus makes the system barca run one of the greatest formula's for success in football. Thus, it might seem like they are trying to raise an all sapanish team

When Manchester United won the champions leauge semi final they had 7 English players playing. Aston Villa have nearly a full squad of English players. So Barca are just going down the same route that many teams already have

LOL it'll be good for the spanish team too because then they'll all be used to playing with each other...

All of the comments are just plain stupid I am sorry. Football teams want the best, so it happens that many are Spanish. I don't see why people are trying to make correlations with nationality and competence. Plus if the players speak the same languange it makes communication better

Barcelona just won the world Cup!

Damn you manuK

Icant see that an all spanish team would be a good thing in club football, they would have to loose some good foreign players to make that happen, so I can't see it happening

If barca kept their "buying spanish" policy, spain national team will be unbeatable for a long long time then! Lol

No I don't think so, but we must accept that spanish team is composed by very good players !

Most of all, buying spanish player is better for integration in the group ! Look Ibra ! He doesn't succeed his integration !

Well Barca has signed david villa and wants to sign Fabregas also.

But they also signed Javier mascherano from liverpool.

That's because Joseph guardiola wanted to do so, to establish a balanced team.
Personally guardiola has played with barca as a player and he understands phiosophy of barca playing.

Plus he has faith in spainish young player also, because he was coach of barca be befor winning Historic treble.


As far as your point concerned that if they make all spanish team, will they be sucessfull.... Looks like they can be sucessful, if they show their potential and consistency, because just now spain won 201o world cup.


Well making all spanish team is worthy, because has barca has one of the best youth academy as you can see xavi. Iniesta, pedro, sergio busqests, puyol, pique.... Are all from youth academy.

And they should also sign fabregas because he was in barca youth academy when he was young and has played in the same team with Pique and Messi, and they always used to win by 5-6 goals margin.

SO go barca go!

Viva Espana...