FC Barcelona completed the signing of one of the best strikers in the World – David Villa.

After being inches away from signing him last summer Barca finally completed their long wished target and added the Spanish international to their squad list.

Reported fee is 40 million euros with David Villa signing a 4 year contract.

Villa has been the leading striker in Spain for the past years and helped Spain win European Championship in 2008.

Lille midfielder is already on shopping list of various clubs and Real Madrid are also looking to add him to their squad for next season following Zinedine Zidane’s praises.

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According to Catalan news daily Sport, David Villa could sign for FC Barcelona as soon as next week as the two clubs already agreed on price that would be slightly over 40 million euros.

Last summer, both Real Madrid and FC Barcelona were linked heavily with the midfielder but Arsenal’s captain opted to day for another year with the Gunners.

This year, however, it will be very hard for Arsene Wenger to keep his star player after another disappointing season for Arsenal.

Barca will have a day off on Wednesday and will return to training on Thursday 11AM.

Barca will have to do without their creative midfielder Andres Iniesta and first choice central back – Gerard Pique. Should the Catalans slip and drop points it would open doors for their bitter rivals, Real Madrid, to grab the first spot on the last round of La Liga.

Expected lineup: Valdes -Alves,Puyol,Milito,Maxwell-Busquets,Keita,Xavi-Messi-Bojan-Pedro

Erik Stover, New York Red Bull director, claims that they are yet to decide whether to make a move for signing FC Barcelona’s forward and French international, Thierry Henry.

Thierry Henry has  been linked with a move to US over past 2 years and New York was the club that were considered front-runners for the Frenchman’s signature.  However,  Stover is remaining cautious as there are many open questions regarding Henry’s paycheck and FC Barcelona’s asking price.

Xavi showed no signs of weakness in Barca’s last match and managed to put himself on a score sheet and adding an assist in FC Barcelona’s 4-1 win over Villarreal 2 days ago.

According to Catalan press, FC Barcelona has set out to make Cesc Fabregas as their prime target this summer.

Despite the high priority of maintaining the current excellent team, Barca coach Pep Guardiola and Txiki Begiristain are working on potential new transfers for the next season on the assumption that the club only requires three players and one of which is a central midfielder.

FC Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola was critical after his team trounced Tenerife 0-5.

Leo Messi produced another of his world class performances by scoring a hat-trick assisted by Barca prodigy Bojan Krkic. Captain Carles Puyol netted a header and late sub Pedro cooked the 5th to close the scoresheet.

However, Guardiola wasn’t happy with Barca performance and the way his team struggled with the hosts in the 1st half when FC Barcelona goalkeeper, Victor Valdes, had to be called to rescue.

“Until we scored our first goal there was only one team on the pitch: Tenerife”, said Guardiola after the match.

“Tenerife could have been up by 2 or 3, but luckily for us, that didn’t happen. They pressured us high and man marked our key players and that forced us to use some longer passing. By starting games the way we did at Tenerife, we are not going to win anything this season and we have to be more careful. In the end we were more effective in front of goal and that decided the game,” concluded Guardiola, and also praised Tenerife coach Jose Luis Oltra, by saying: “his work was magnificent”.