World’s second most expensive footballer could leave Barcelona for a song

Spanish papers are claiming today that Ronaldinho could buy himself out of his contract with Barcelona this summer for as little as 16 million Euros, or £12 million, which means that some lucky team could buy one of the planet’s finest players for significantly less than Darren Bent.

Ronaldinho’s lengthy and mysterious absence from the Barcelona first team suggests the gap between him and the younger Bent is narrowing alarmingly, although one recent guess in a Madrid paper claimed that the Barcelona directors had already had enough of him and his fondness for the night, and had made their minds up to get rid of him. To further develop the Bent theme, Spurs have been