<h3 style="text-align: justify"><em>FC Barcelona will keep more than 60 million euros ($65 million) of talent on the sidelines for six months having signed Turkish international Arda Turan and Aleix Vidal knowing that they cannot play until next year.</em></h3> <p style="text-align: justify"></p> <p style="text-align: justify">More big money deals could follow. A FIFA ban on making official signings until January 2016 has not stopped the Spanish giants from plunging into the market ahead of a messy year of internal tensions and high profile trials for Barcelona and some of its stars.</p> <p style="text-align: justify">FC Barcelona on Monday announced they had beaten Chelsea to secure 28-year-old midfielder Turan from Atletico Madrid on a five-year deal for a fee that could reach 41 million euros.</p> <p style="text-align: justify">That follows the 18-million-euro signing of right-back Vidal from Sevilla last month.</p> <p style="text-align: justify">Others are expected to follow with media reports indicating Barcelona are trying to line up a deal for Juventus' midfielder Paul Pogba which would see him arrive at the end of next season.</p> <p style="text-align: justify">FC Barcelona were banned from making new signings in 2015 after FIFA found them guilty of breaching rules on the transfers of players aged under 18.</p> . <p style="text-align: justify">Turan, captain of Turkey's national team and a prolific goalscorer with Atletico, has not yet indicated what he thinks about sitting out half a season.</p> <p style="text-align: justify"></p> <h2 style="text-align: justify">Waiting game</h2> <p style="text-align: justify"></p> <p style="text-align: justify">Vidal says it is a sacrifice worth making to join Europe's most successful team of the past decade.</p> <p style="text-align: justify">"When I was told that it would really happen, I didn't think it was a hassle to come and spend a few months without playing," he said just after the transfer was announced.</p> <p style="text-align: justify">Turan and Vidal have arrived at a complicated time for FC Barcelona as the team prepares for the election of a new president on July 18.</p> <p style="text-align: justify">Transfer policy has been at the centre of the debate between incumbent Josep Maria Bartomeu and challenger Joan Laporta.</p> <p style="text-align: justify">Because of the election, the FC Barcelona managing committee could not approve the Turan transfer and a clause in the deal was included saying that he could be sold back at a 10-percent discount if the new president so decides.</p> <p style="text-align: justify">Laporta called the Turan deal "improper" and said Bartomeu should have completed the transfer before resigning to stand in the campaign.</p> <p style="text-align: justify">"The urgency of this operation is out of order. The only explanation is that it favours Bartomeu's candidacy.</p> <p style="text-align: justify">"There was already a lack of transparency in Neymar's signing and I think that it is insane that the management committee is playing this game," he said.</p> <p style="text-align: justify">FC Barcelona and their top manager are to stand trial over the transfer of Neymar. Spanish prosecutors allege that secret commissions were paid as part of the deal.</p> <p style="text-align: justify">The club bought the Brazilian captain in 2013 for what they said was 57 million euros ($41 million). A Madrid judge says the fee was closer to 83 million euros.</p> <p style="text-align: justify">Fellow striker Lionel Messi could also stand trial on tax fraud charges. Investigators allege his father Jorge organised a complex network of companies that kept 4.1 million ($5.5 million) from tax authorities between 2007 and 2009.</p> <p style="text-align: justify"><strong>By AFP</strong></p>