Yaya Touré arrived in Barcelona today to agree the final details of his contract. Touré is expected to sign for four seasons and he will earn approximately €1.8M per season. Barça are believed to have agreed a price of €10M with Monaco. Thierry Henry is also expected to arrive in the city this afternoon.

Touré(13/5/1983) has played 17 times for the Ivory Coast, scoring 3 goals. He will probably play defensive midfield where his strength and ball-winning qualities are most needed. Uli Stielike, the Ivory Coast coach calls him "a rock." His main weakness is probably his lack of pace, but after Edmilson and Motta this season, he'll seem pretty quick. With the arrival and reported photo appearance of Henry later today, Touré's presentation has been set for Tuesday.

Joan Laporta revealed today that Samuel Eto'o will remain at Barça. Laporta also confirmed that Ronaldinho and Frank Rijkaard will also be here.

There was a strict warning from Laporta that most will interprete as being directed at the Cameroon striker. "We can not tolerate any anomalous behaviour." This is thought to be a call to order to Eto'o after his controversial comments in February. Eto'o called coach Rijkaard "a bad person" in reply to Rijkaard's suggestion that Eto'o had refused to come on as substitute for five minutes against Racing de Santander. Eto'o, who was just comimg back after his knee injury, claimed that the reason he hadn't gone on was that he had not had enough time to warm up properly.

Today Laporta put an end to some of the rumours. "Rijkaard will be Barça's coach next seas...