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Catalan sports paper El Mundo Deportivo claims that Barcelona has already talked with Inter Milan on the transfer of Inter Milan forward and Swedish international Zlatan Ibrahimovic (27).

Barcelona board members and Barcelona sports director Txiki Begiristain would have contacted Italian officials, including Inter Milan sports director Gabriele Oriali.

Despite Inter Milan manager José Mourinho having indicated that Ibrahimovic is a key player in his project and the Italian champiosn not being willing to let the player go, Inter Milan president Massimo Moratti would have admitted that the striker wants to leave and that a transfer could be possible if a fee between 75 and 80 million euro is paid.

Inter has made clear that they only want to drop that fee is Barcelona forward Samuel Eto'o (28) is included in the deal. In that cas, the cashto be paid would be 50-55 million euro°. An accident at a plant of Italian chemical and oil refining company Saras, owned by the Moratti family, in which several workers died, would have put all negotiations on hold.

Ibrahimovic would want to leave his club because he feels that he isn't able to compete for the most important team and individual trophies at Inter. The player would prefer to join Barcelona because of their way of playing. Ibrahimovic's manager Mino Raiola would already have offered the player several times to Barcelona over the last years, but until now the high salary of 12 million euro net made a transfer impossible.

Barcelona would now nevertheless have worked out an economic study about how to finance the deal with the help of sponsors. Barcelona manager Josep Guardiola would think that Ibrahimovic fits in his team.

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