As painful as it will be for Barca to lose Messi, it is only a matter of short order when that will happen anyway. What does he have at the very top end left? 2-3 years? And that's only because like Cristiano, he is superhuman. It's far from guaranteed. He's 33. Barca should take the short term pain, and bring forward their complete rebuild, by taking 100M for him and getting rid of his massive, crippling wages. As crazy as that is to say. It's probably a one time opportunity for them, and the perfect time for him to leave.
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It's pretty clear British journalists have no info about United this window.
If I was Barcelona I would be glad to sell Messi for anything near that. His wages are reported €100m a year as well so in year one Barcelona are €200m up. Sir Alex’s greatest trait was knowing when to get rid of players and build a new team. I feel like if Messi hangs around any longer at Barcelona it will damage them in the long term.
I'd say that some of them have info but are told to hold off until there is enough confidence in us getting the deal done. We saw that happen with the van de Beek transfer where it started off with "we've been monitoring him for months" to then going to "we've reached an agreement with all parties". In the meantime, Verweij and Romano were giving more exactly, timely updates of events in between (agent contacts, initial offer, agreement over personal terms, etc.).
So Matija Sarkic joined Wolves from Villa this summer. He's now being sent out on loan to Shrewsbury.
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We've generally been pretty good at keeping our actual dealings quiet from the British media for a long time now, on the whole. Most leaks seem to come from the other party or from agents talking to the likes of Romano, etc.
There is only one goalkeeper on the pitch so fewer opportunities for any person to make it in that position. I reckon statistically they are represented about the right amount per population etc.
Dida, Al-Habsi, David James, Onana, Mandanda etc. Plenty of examples of quality black goalkeepers.
One random thought if they were under-represented could be the concentration of black populations in city centres and therefore more likely playing on concrete pitches and so wouldn’t learn to play goalkeeper at a young age due to diving on hard ground.
Some say that there is no English tax, etc....
Just a BS from "anti English brigade". Yeah, right.
Last summer whole world knew that we are for Maguire, Bruno and AWB. De beek is our first player in years who we bought without anybody knowing that we are in serious talk
Couldn’t agree more. I’m not against signing British but they tend to be highly overrated.
Clubs done well to avoid these and sign the players we have instead.
Brescia's president Massimo Cellino name-dropped both Barcelona and Manchester United when talking about Sandro Tonali.
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If that was the case, I wonder why absolutely none of the Italian journalists ever reported on our or Barcelona's supposed bids.
Agents should be for external deals (coca cola adverts). Fifa should have a set of negotiators or something who sort transfers between teams and personal terms. Millions goes out of the game to people exploiting footballers for their own gain.
Transfer details on Kolarov to Inter:
Fee: 1 million Euros + 500k in bonuses
Contract: 3.5 million Euros / year (net) over 1 year + 1 year option
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Fee: 1 million Euros + 500k in bonuses
Contract: 3.5 million Euros / year (net) over 1 year + 1 year option
They’d take £100 no doubt, they’re currently fighting not to lose him for free. Then you take into account a loss of commercial earnings and it’s understandable they are panicking.
The whole world though we were signing Morata until about 2 days before we announced we'd signed Lukaku
For the others, its true especially for Maguire and Bruno there was a lot of noise in the media, but I don't think much of it was coming from us. It seemed to me in those cases the other party were the ones who were allowing the most noise to come out
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Please inform me which club(s) you think will spend £25m on Lingard and pay him 100k pw
You'd also wonder why a club like Brescia would turn down 65m from a club in another league, only to then accept 25m from a club they compete against.
Complete twisting of the truth that. He never says he would consider a move to the PL, and actually avoids the question altogether.
Funnily enough, Cellino already answered that question: he'd rather keep good young Italians in Italy than sell them abroad.
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Fiorentina's manager Iachini gave his okay to his higher-ups to go after Bonaventura. Also, Fiorentina are considering giving Cristiano Biraghi (previously loaned out to Inter) a contract extension with an increase in his salary.
Seems mental but you have to respect it i suppose.Funnily enough, Cellino already answered that question: he'd rather keep good young Italians in Italy than sell them abroad.
Very interesting if true
Don't do it to me just before i am going to bed. Is he reliable?
Because Italian owners are ball shitters.
I mean,look at the crap Laurentiis has spewed over the last few seasons regarding Koulibaly .
He's supposed to United's insider for Sky, but he doesn't appear to be any more in the know than other journalists.. I may be wrong about this, but I think another journalist came in here a while back and called him out saying that he has no real sources in the club.
Why would a player let some random FIFA beaurocrat negotiate a personal contract which he may need to live off for the rest of his life?
Yeah that makes no sense. While I agree some agents take the piss with the sums they demand and I'm all for somehow putting a cap on how much they can demand it doesn't make any sense to bam agents all together. Obviously a player would want someone he knows is on his side negotiating on his behalf.
It's terrible business, Messi and Ronaldo have operated at the highest level in the sport but no player is immune to physical decline. If Messi cannot loophole his way out of his contract termination he won't leave imo.
So the Tonali story was true.... crazy how we bid randomly for players we could've approached long ago.
Do we never make opening bids for players?
Do we never make opening bids for players?
Why the same man who spent £27m and £100k a week on Fellaini 7 years ago of course.
Our Lord and savior, David Moyes. Well either him or Conte.
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Juve have a good relationship with Barcelona, which could make this transfer somewhat easier for them.
Sounds like BS to be honest.
That's what I think as well.
This would've been major front-page news in Italy if it were true; heck, the English journalists would've made a much bigger deal of it, too. In Barcelona's case, it makes no sense for them to pay so much for that kind of a player when they have Pjanic unless they were okay with putting one of them on the bench.
Updates on Borja Valero and Tameze (formerly loaned out to Atalanta by Nice):
Hellas Verona have entered the chase for Borja Valero along with Genoa and Parma.
Tameze will be joining Hellas Verona soon after coming to an agreement with the club. Nice and Verona also have an agreement.
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Hellas Verona have entered the chase for Borja Valero along with Genoa and Parma.
Tameze will be joining Hellas Verona soon after coming to an agreement with the club. Nice and Verona also have an agreement.
Not only that - but the owner would have moved heaven and earth to force the player to United and pocket the higher 10m fee. Especially someone like Cellino (former Leeds United owner). Just sounds like utter bullshit.
Yeah and big italian sources like Porzio & Romano would have easily been all over this as well
Said this weeks and weeks ago.
So are you confident we can get a deal?
Total. Besides, it looks like Tonali is not clever at all if he truly prefers Milan to Man Utd and Barcelona. It’s... well, dumb
Looks like we will secure a 20m+ fee in GBP for Smalling - it would be an excellent piece of business. More or less 20% of Sancho - and 20% is significant
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