Guardiola backing for Barca youngsters
Reuters - Monday 04 January 2010, 15:50
MADRID - Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola will
turn to the club's youth system to fill the gaps in his squad in
January rather than entering the transfer market.
"If we didn't have the youth team I would probably have
thought about signing someone, but it's not worth it for a
month. I would rather give them (the youngsters) a chance,"
Guardiola told reporters on Monday.
Midfielders Jonathan Dos Santos, 19 (pictured), and Thiago Alcantara,
18, are to join Barca's first-team squad in January while Ivory
Coast's Yaya Toure and Mali's Seydou Keita are playing in the
African Nations Cup.