Lionel Messi | Joins Inter Miami (pg4111)

[Delphinho]

IT'S HAPPENING!!!!!

The question is when it will happen. Barca could probably drag this out for a while

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

This whole farce gets more Messi by the day.

We should give this a deadline of Wednesday 6pm.

If he isn't in Manchester by then, pull the plug and save face.

What face do we have to save.
From what I’ve seen, we’ve said nothing and got nothing but good press from this.

Look at the situation.
Everyone knows this is political at Barca. Barca are the club coming across as being in a complete mess.

The best player in the world wants out and has intimated that the only club he will consider is us. Our team/management is the only one he trusts. Put that on top of the CAS ruling which showed up the rest of the Cabal and my attitude is that whether Messi comes or not, this is a vindication of how we do business and the biggest endorsement you can get that we are right.


We haven’t opened our mouths and Messi is giving us the most positive publicity possible.

Getting him would be icing on the cake, but this is a win as far as I’m concerned.

 

[Leeky]

source

 

[MillsyTheMosher]

@MillsyTheMosher has returned to the thread with an apology to the forum.

Apologies all. I misunderstood what Veronica has tweeted.

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

That is true, but the socio (and, really, general public) backlash would likely see Tebas and Bartomeu run out of Spain, so they’ll be carefully considering their options.

I'm hopeful that behind all the posturing and media guesswork there is actually an adult debate going on between city, messi and barca to find as close as possible to a win-win for all concerned. Messi coming here and them getting a little bit more than they are strictly / legally entitled to in order to buy Southampton players off Liverpool.

 

[DrBlueBob]

What about if he can make it for 6.15?

Nope. A deadline is a deadline. Show no weakness. 6.10 should the max.

 

[Burtonblue]

Barca are emabrassing themselves. They have agreed to have that clause in his contract, but is not willing to carry it through after all he’s done for them

Classless to put it mildly.
Cnuts in all reality.

 

[manimanc]

IT'S HAPPENING!!!!!

Is that about the 15th time you've said that in the last 2 days? :)

 

[Chi-town blues]

source

Combine your name with your comment. Leeky source spill the fucking beans .

 

[DMA's]

Aren’t we back in training on Monday? How would pep be in Barcelona wouldn’t he have to quarantine?

 

[manimanc]

Apologies all. I misunderstood what Veronica has tweeted.

Meh!!

 

[sky_blue]

Enough of this Messi shite, what about 6 new first team signings that Sir Ezzy promised this week?

 

[DrBlueBob]

Messi potentially leaving Barcelona has made it to National Public Radio in the US.

To put it simply, NPR is generally more “high brow” radio and so pure sport news, unrelated to other events or implications like protests or economic changes, is rarely discussed in the course of normal broadcast. The fact that there was even a minute devoted to this in their news segment is another example of how Messi transcends merely the sport world in to general interest.

It is evidence of why him coming to us would be an unprecedented commercial opportunity (bigger even than many currently believe). This is more consequential than Robinho signing for us (which was seismic at the time), Ronaldo going to RM or later Juve, or Kaka going to RM. It may even be on par with Maguire being arrested in Greece.

People around the world that generally don’t care about football will take note and that will have substantial commercial implications.

And Barca are fully aware of this, which is why they will fight to the death to optimise any outcome that sees him leave, so no one should be surprised by their posturing or combative stance, or the conflicting information coming out of many different reputable (or less-reputable) outlets, or the fact that the entire affair is going to drag out a bit.

That was going great until your last paragraph Seb.

 

[SebastianBlue]

That was going greta until your last paragraph Seb.

What can I say, always the realist. ;-)

 

[Leeky]

Combine your name with your comment. Leeky source spill the fucking beans .

My bad typo

 

[DrBlueBob]

Pep arrived in Barcelona last night. Officially it will be for “holidays” but he’ll meet Messi over the weekend.

Thanks for sharing Billy. Keep 'em coming.

 

[kaz7]

Maybe its not a bad idea to crank the pressure up by setting a deadline for this.
To scare both Messi's entourage and Barca people.

also tell them it has to be a free transfer nothing or we give two players Garcia and Scott Carson maximum.

Deadline is october

 

[sincity]

I wouldn’t be surprised to see something like £150m in the end.

imo, the transfer fee should be anywhere between 0 and 100 million euros - the same amount Ronaldo was sold to Juventus for..

 

[Chi-town blues]

My bad typo

Just kidding man this messi is messing my head and I’m running out of moisturized kleenex.

 

[WRicko]

Court seems like the best route.

If I was Barca I would be saying this applies to contracts not release clauses with specified dates assuming it specifies a date and not x number of days from season end or a combination of both which could be more 50 50