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MADRID - Barcelona midfielder Aleksandr Hleb has agreed
a one-year loan move to former club VfB Stuttgart, the European
champions said on their website on Thursday.
The Belarus international had originally been included in the
swap deal that took Swedish striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic to Barca
from Inter Milan with Samuel Eto'o going in the opposite direction
on Monday.
However, Spanish media reported the player preferred a return to
the Bundesliga rather than a move to Serie A.
The 28-year-old struggled to break into Pep Guardiola's
treble-winning side last season and had been left out of the squad
for their tour of the United States, which started on
Wednesday.
Hleb joined Barca from Arsenal on a four-year contract for
around 18 million euros last year. He played five seasons with
Stuttgart before his switch to the Premier League in 2005.