Everyone wants to get a slice of the Andrei Arshavin pie but it is FC Barcelona who appear that most likely to get the whole pie itself. New barca coach Josep Guardiola has admitted that the club is keen on signing the Russian international who, at 27 years of age, has been the find of the Euro 2008 finals. The Zenit St. Petersburg was easily the most classy of the Russian players and major clubs across Europe have been asking their financial advisors whether they can afford the money required to looped out this new gem from Russia,

Barca do have the money and they do have the keenness as well, as Guardiola remarked in an interview with the Catalan sports daily Sport:

"All the players that we have been linked with are high calibre.

"Arshavin is having an extraordinary European Championship and he is one of the player's that we are following."

"I am sure that all great players are compatible and Arshavin would get along fine with Hleb

"There is no denying it, Arshavin is a great player. If one day he becomes a Barcelona player then we will talk further about him but for now there's no point talking as he is not our player."