Arsenal midfielder Alexander Hleb is on the verge of completing a move to Barcelona, the Catalan club confirmed on Wednesday.The 27-year-old Belarus international is set to arrive in the city at lunchtime before undergoing a medical later in the day.
Barca confirmed Hleb could be presented as early as Thursday and reports in Spain suggest they will pay the Gunners 15million euros.
The Belarus ace revealed last week that 'serious negotiations' were underway with Barca after he had become 'tired' of living in London.
The Spanish giants have confirmed on their official website that, providing Hleb passes his medical, he could sign his contract within 24 hours.
Hleb joined Arsenal in from Stuttgart for £11.2million in 2005 and he has scored 10 goals in 130 appearances for the club.
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am absolutely delighted to see such a talented and creative player moving to elbarca...watching him dominating the midfield against man u in old traford last season was just sensational (although arsenal was beaten harshly by a free kick!) i think that arsenal is one of the best clubs around and their quality of football is simply breathetaking...i hope they will keep doing that without hleb and flamini but seriously, the professor (wenger) needs to amend his policy and start spending more in the transfer market if he wants to outmuscle great teams like catalunya, man u, chelsea, Real suckers CF (oupse) etc. if we can secure the services of adebayour (even if it means selling eto'o to the gunners) then we can say that barcelona's transfer deals have been totally outstanding...i mean we have a much younger defensive side (puyol, millito, alves, caceres, pique, abidal), a strong and dynamic defensive midfield (yaya and keita), a creative advanced midfied (xavi, iniesta and hleb) and an amazing attacking prowess (titi, bojan and adebayour) without 4getting the soul of the team...u know whom am talking about...el phenomeno MESSIDONNA...visca el barca and good luck to arsenal the most entertaining team along with barcelona
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