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In recent reports in the British and Spanish press have emerged that the striker Ruud Van Nistelrooy has already negotiated with . However, according to the vice president of the Catalan club Sandro Rosell, Nistelrooy will definitely not be joining the Barcelona team in the near future. Although Rosell claimed that the club's president Joan Laporta spoke with Nistelrooy's agent Roger Lins, he emphasized that they do not plan to invite the player to the Catalan capital anytime soon.
"The meeting between the player's agent and our club president was very familiar and unofficial. Nistelrooy's agent's wife is Catalan, she's from Barcelona," Rosell said.
"If, for any reason, our specialists became interested in him, we would first talk to the club. We never negotiate with the players themselves."
Earlier, the Barcelona team showed great interest in the player . "It's no secret that we like this player. Of course, he would be very interesting to us if he were free. We've talked to Arsenal many times, but they say it's completely impossible," Rosell said.
