I don't doubt a word of this, but how is it relevant?I just don't go with all the shirt sales/ sponsorship bollocks pays for big player, it's a lie.
I live in Asia, once upon a time every kid had a premier league shirt on, all dodgy, all copies, now they don't. Why? The Premier league and Nike, Adidas and Puma sent out people searching for the sweatshops, putting pressure on local governments to stop it. It still goes on, but at a far lower scale.
The real shirts are in the shops and guess what, no kid/ adult buys them, too expensive!
With respect, we currently have £470m sat in the CFG coffers for something just like this.
As I've said, Messi needs to be taken in isolation for obvious financial reasons and complexities.
He may not even cost us much of a transfer fee if certain players are also included in the equation.
Removing the wages or Vinny, Silva, Bravo and Sane has clawed back the best part of £600k a week so far.
You only have to listen to Khaldoon's interview this evening to see City have exceptions to the desired profile we will also be bringing in.
I wouldnt swap Bernado for Messi due to age and experience of the league.
Sure it might be cool to have Messi in the team and might be financially viable but Bernado was fantastic in every sense season before last and has time on his side.
Swap him for an aging messi who might struggle in our league? No thanks.
should it happen, the Messi deal would worry me.
Even if Messi couldn't run I'd spend the money just to have a player who can bloody finish. He could stand still in the box and still get 20 goals a season with Kev feeding him.
Fucking hell.Meanwhile we'd only be playing with 10 men when out of possession and the forward press, that's the core of our defence, would be a man light and leaky.
Yes, I drool for Messi on the ball like everyone but I worry that having our team pander to a superstar might have an overall negative effect.
4 or 5 years ago, when he used to run and stuff, it'd be a resounding yes from me . . but IMO not now.
Im presuming the certain players would be at least Garcia?
There is also the rumour of Angelino being wanted by them but i thought that may have been to push Leipzig to paying up for him
Id be gutted about Bernardo - I for one would be willing to py more upfront and keep Bernardo - he is a special player and we could have another 10 yrs out of him and he is capable of becoming a premiership legend imho.
On a scale of 1 to 10, What do you think the likelihood of this happening is?
Definitely don't want to lose Bernardo as part of a Messi deal, but I think Barca would possibly want him included plus cash.
Damn! I got lots of haters. LolI thought he was a @Dax777 parody account at first.
Deal.Ok £60,000,000 plus Messi for Bernardo
A Leeds ST holder has just told me here in the pub that apparently they want Stones if Brighton won’t sell them Ben White. Not sure they could afford his wages but he’s a Yorkshire lad and he’d be the main man there. He's also locked in a child access battle so maybe staying round here would suit himAny news on outgoings?
A lot of players that we are looking to move Otamendi, Stones, Zinchenko, Garcia, Angelino. Nearly all being linked somewhere but not much movement.
A Leeds ST holder has just told me here in the pub that apparently they want Stones if Brighton won’t sell them Ben White. Not sure they could afford his wages but he’s a Yorkshire lad and he’d be the main man there. He's also locked in a child access battle so maybe staying round here would suit him
Nice to see some type of positivity there well done keep it up. Once your start being a bit more positive it starts to come a bit easier.Thanks for the answer, the players you say Garcia, Angelino , maybe Bernardo?
As long as we still get our original, long term signings good, but it's a hell of a risk in the present climate, and also, if we were to sign him and not able to witness watching Lionel Messi in the flesh in sky blue at the Etihad , it would be heartbreaking.
I still feel Messi will always be thought of as a Barca Icon, whatever he would achieve with us.