FC Barcelona's new signing Arda Turan poses for the media with his jersey during his official presentation at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, Spain, Friday, July 10, 2015. The European champions announced a five-year deal for the 28-year-old Turkey midfielder. Barcelona made the signing despite currently being without a permanent president or executive board members, who resigned under club bylaws before elections on July 18. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez) Manu Fernandez/Associated Press New Barcelona signing Arda Turan has ruled out an immediate loan move away from the Camp Nou. alternatively, the erstwhile Atletico Madrid leading has confirmed he will use the cabaret ‘s transfer ban—which stops any new appropriate from playing competitive football for the slope until January 2016—to get used to life in Catalonia.

Turan made his intentions clear when addressing the media in his first base crusade league as a Barca musician, per the club ‘s official Twitter fertilize : turkish giants Galatasaray were linked with a loanword move for Turan by AS ( h/t Liam Happe of Eurosport ). Happe suggested Fenerbahce were besides volition to secure a six-month deal while the player waits for Barca ‘s ban to be uplifted . Manu Fernandez/Associated Press certain risks are involved either direction. now Turan has decided to remain with his fresh team-mates, it ‘s possible he ‘ll lose his match asperity with the miss of competitive football. On the early hand, there ‘s always the risk he could get injure if representing another slope for the first gear one-half of the season. It ‘s a unmanageable position, specially as Turan enters Barca as something of a successor for Xavi Hernandez, who recently joined Al Sadd. Turan does n’t expect to fill in for the legendary distributor, however, per FCB ‘s feed :

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He is, however, looking advancing to working aboard argentine ace Lionel Messi : Reports continue to swirl that Turan could be joined by Juventus midfielder Paul Pogba at the Camp Nou. Marca ‘s Luis F. Rojo suggested presidential candidate Joan Laporta will use early Barca left-back Eric Abidal—who will take the director of football function if Laporta is elected—to help push a batch for Pogba through. Laporta will besides call on Abidal, who used to play for Monaco, to lure talented portuguese midfielder Bernardo Silva from the principality, per Marca. however, Laporta is well-behind current Barca president Josep Maria Bartomeu in the election vote stakes after the last reckon, as reported by Sport on Wednesday :

Barcelona Presidential Race 2015
Candidate Signatures Submitted Signatures Validated
Josep Maria Bartomeu 9124 8554
Joan Laporta 4802 4272
Agusti Benedito 3815 3367
Toni Freixa 3289 3068
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B/R UK ‘s Graham Ruthven recently discussed how Barcelona would fare with Pogba in the team : Although the treble-winning golf club were locked in transition last class, Barca show no signs of letting up on being successful. Boss Luis Enrique has the team play with an increased doggedness and willingness to get stuck in, highlighted by the arrival of Turan, and indeed, Ivan Rakitic last summer. Adding Pogba to the police squad would merely reiterate the ambition of a club who are on the brink of enjoying another long-run era of achiever .