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Catalan sports paper Sport claims that Athletic Bilbao forward and Spanish international Fernando Llorente (23) is on Barcelona's transfer target list (read more here).

The Basque striker, whose contract with Athletic expires in 2011, would be one of the preferred options of Barcelona sports director Txiki Begiristain.

Llorente, who is being followed by several European top clubs some of which already sounded out Athletic, has a buyout clause of 30 million euro°, which would be a price Barcelona is willing to pay.

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