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Catalan radio station RAC 1 claims that Grêmio right back defender Felipe Mattioni (21) has been offered to Barcelona.

Mattioni could be one of the many candidates to strenghten the right back position. The Brazilian defender played on loan with AC Milan during the first half of 2009 but the Italian club decided not to use the first option they had to buy Mattioni

Mattioni is represented by Mino Raiola, the agent of Barcelona players Ibrahimovic and Maxwell, who said a few days ago that he was talking with Barcelona about a third player. The radio station claims that the transfer fee of Mattioni would be around 3 million euro.

Asked about the rumours linkig him with a move to Barcelona, Mattioni confirmed in an interview with Catalan radio station RAC 1 that Barcelona could be interested: "I'm waiting to see what will happen. There are possibilities, for me it would be a dream to play at Barça."

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Watch a goal of Mattioni here (first goal):

Brazilian first division club Grêmio has yesterday officially announced the transfer of former Barcelona forward Maxi López (24).

The Argentinian striker joins the Brazilian club on loan for one year. The deal includes an option to partially buy the player at the end of the loan.

Maxi López joined Barcelona in January 2005, arriving from River Plate. In the summer of 2007 and after one year on loan with Mallorca, he left for Russian club FC Moscow. With Barcelona, Maxi López won two Spanish league titles in 2005 and 2006, one Spanish super cup in 2005 and one Champions League in 2006.

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Catalan sports paper Sport claims that Barcelona scouts are present at the South-American under-20 Championship that is played in Venezula these days.

In the first scouting reports the club's sports department has received, two players would stick out: Internacional forward Walter Henrique da Silva (19 - Brazil) and Nacional attacking midfielder Nicolás Lodeiro (19 - Uruguay - picture).

The paper claims that Barcelona is also still interested in Grêmio attacking midfielder Douglas Costa (18 - Brazil) (read more here). Asked about the rumours linking the player to several European top clubs, Douglas' agent César Bottega has said in an interview with Italian football site Calcio Mercato that there's nothing concrete yet: "We didn't yet speak with a club, we only know that several scouts are following him but at this moment there's nothing official."

British tabloid The Daily Mail meanwhile claims that Barcelona is one of the European top clubs that have sent scouts to the tournament to watch Deportivo Anzoátegui left midfielder Carlos Fernández (18 - Venezuela), who is represented by British -based agent Barry Yeubrey.


Watch this video of Walter:




Watch this video of Lodeiro:

Catalan sports paper Sport claims that Barcelona is one of the European top clubs that are following the performances of Grêmio attacking midfieler and Brazilian youth international Douglas Costa de Souza (18).

In May, César Bottega, the agent of Douglas, handed the Barcelona technical staff a video of the player (read more here).

Douglas, who made his first team debut last month, signed earlier this year a contract renewal with Brazilian first division club Grêmio until 2013, including a buyout clause of 30 million euro° for foreign clubs and 15 million euro for Brazilian clubs (read more here).

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Brazilian blog Gremio1903 claims that the interest of Barcelona and other European top clubs (read more here) was the main reason for his club to renew the contract of Grêmio midfielder and Brazilian youth international Douglas Costa (18) from the moment the player turned eighteen last month.