La Liga - Eto'o considering Uzbekistan bid

Eurosport - Thu, 17 Jul 16:23:00 2008

Barcelona striker Samuel Eto'o has confirmed he is considering an offer to join Uzbekistan league leaders Kuruvchi.

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Kuruvchi claim to have agreed a deal with the Liga side and hope to sign Eto'o to play in the second half of their domestic season.

"There was a real suggestion from Kuruvchi. That's why I'm in Tashkent right now," Eto'o said.

"One of the reasons I am here is to get to know about the people here and all the interesting things about this country.

"I want to say something but there will be more offers from other clubs and I will choose the one that is the right for me.

"Tonight I will leave for Spain and from there I will confirm my final decision."

Kuruvchi announced on Monday that they had reached an agreement with Barcelona on a cut-price deal for the striker, who is also wanted by Chelsea.

The club's sporting director Bahtier Babayev said: "The defining moment of the transfer was not money, but the friendly mutual relations between the management of our club and Barcelona," he said.

"The personal friendship between presidents of the clubs has noticeably lowered the transfer fee."

Kuruvchi have also invited Barcelona's Spanish Euro 2008 winners Carles Puyol, Xavi and Andres Iniesta to help Uzbekistan's youth development.

The claims were dismissed by Barcelona, whose official spokesperson said: "Nobody at the club knows anything about this."

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  1. Surprise! A reliable source said he has a relationship with a super model who posted a profile at a celebs dating site named ( M I L L M A T C H ) which is a site for beautiful people. His fans are busy with talking about it now uhmmm~~~

    From lovelywomanb, on Fri 18 Jul 3:27PM

  2. eto that will be a wrong move dont let money take you to a place where we your fans will not have the chance to watch you play again and remember that when one plays among good players they compliment his efforts how many good players are in that team or you think you alone can make a difference go to ac millan n we will follow you there.

    From jonbosco35, on Fri 18 Jul 1:31PM

  3. I think he sees this as the best way to win a continental club championship with the Asian Champions League coming up.

    From aleksicn93, on Fri 18 Jul 12:59PM

  4. hard to believe. this guy has posted his personal ad to a celebrities dating site called *******M I L L M A T C H****** for several months. i just visited his profile page yesterday. it seems he has not logged in recently.omg, is he looking for new relationships?

    From anglefans2008, on Fri 18 Jul 10:12AM

  5. uzbekistan is the biggest shithole in the world i had to land there on my way to japan and it was mainly houses built out of cow @#$%.... eto'o can choose to play at chelsea or even spurs and instead he chooses uzbekistani league leaders????????????????? has the world gone mad.... next thing u kno lampard will reject inter and move to san marino league champions HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA+

    From luka_v69, on Fri 18 Jul 9:04AM

  6. KURUVCHI FTW!!!

    From the_freewheelin, on Fri 18 Jul 7:22AM

  7. This is a shame to football, for three times africa title holder, to be sold like africa cattle

    From ROB W, on Fri 18 Jul 4:01AM

  8. How much did they offer???

    From omar.fahmy24, on Fri 18 Jul 2:51AM

  9. Uzbek people are one of the nicest in the world but the country is run by a group of thugs. And those thugs own everything: oil, gas, cotton, football and finally people. They try to make people slaves. Now Eto'o wants to be another slave for 50 or 100 millions.

    From azerican, on Thu 17 Jul 8:30PM

  10. Uzbekistan which has one of the worst human rights record inviting Etoo as an advertisement for their "peacefull-and-respecting-people's-rights" country. That's hilarious, ridiculous, awful and trecherous!

    From azerican, on Thu 17 Jul 8:25PM

  11. Erm, I think it was 8 goats & 3 wives!!!! ,)

    From moon2309, on Thu 17 Jul 8:05PM

  12. After headbutting a jornalist in Yaounde he came to the lime light noiw he wants the world to notice him.Etoo go and sleepu are a bad example to youths .I use to be ur fan from now nothing .U are an @#$%.richard

    From Diymba M, on Thu 17 Jul 7:55PM

  13. Uzbepakistan? Doesn't sound as if it is near England.

    From srimeus, on Thu 17 Jul 7:18PM

  14. @#$% u @#$% borat is bullshit uzbekistan is more beutifull than ur europe or usa etc. moreover u can see that eto is comin here that means that there is fuckin lots of cash money here hahahahha

    From Yulchiyev S, on Thu 17 Jul 6:27PM

  15. Today i eather April fools or its a Punk'd thing next thign you know Ashton kutcher is going to pop out of the picture !

    From kevi005, on Thu 17 Jul 6:16PM

  16. sanchez.santos your mother is a sado-masochist who likes to take up her mouth
    delekhnd you must be some kinda gay @#$%

    From jane_sm72, on Thu 17 Jul 6:09PM

  17. If it is true then it will be the most bizare transfer in football

    From dorin.balica, on Thu 17 Jul 6:06PM

  18. So does this mean that this uzbekistan team is bigger & better than spurs? because if remember rightly eto'o said spurs were not big enough & did not have big ambitions for him??????

    From Mkeyz, on Thu 17 Jul 5:53PM

  19. WTF!! he consider to uzbek after saying he want a champion league challenge to spur? yo guys,did u all think he can get any UCL challenge there??

    From franz_desk, on Thu 17 Jul 5:45PM

  20. Eto'o you better not move to a no named club or i'll be @#$%

    From pgmyers1, on Thu 17 Jul 5:27PM
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