He's clearly not coming. Not to say I told you so but he'll sign with Chelsea after they submit their first bid while we've been begging him to join since June.
This type of comment drives me crazy..."clearly". There's no freakin clear anything with this. Its all perspective. I could make a case he's clearly coming if I picked and chose whatever media reports I wanted to make the case.
The facts are:
- We want him
- There are a lot of complicating factors involving funds between FDJ and Barca
- We continue to want him
If we move to the "seems"...:
- He seems to want to stay
- Barca seems to really want to sell him
- There seems to confidence from us we'll get him
We have no confirmed idea how FDJ actually feels about joining us though...just a lot of speculation. You could make a case either way based on the speculation. So nothing is actually "clear". I could easily see a scenario where FDJ gets his deferred payment and immediately agrees to the transfer and happily moves. There's been plenty of speculation I could site that says he wants to play for ETH and would take a move. So GTF out of here with the "clear" crap.