It's Quiet thread 14 - 'do one' edition

[Clembo]

IMO this just closes the door to him walking for free, If the club REALLY wants him, then the next play will be to start negotiating.

It's clear he was hoping that he would be able to leave for free, but there is no way messi and his team didn't consider that barca would fight this and he had hoped the club wouldn't pull this kind of move. I assume on our side we did see this coming and it's why we've downplayed any links to him as much as possible, knowing that barca would be even less likely to let him walk if they knew he was going to reunite with pep and some of the other barca old boys.

He makes it very clear in the message that he loves the club and that he's very much being not allowed to leave, feeding even more into the hate the current president has from the fans.

Remember messi is a player the club have sought after for a long time, and they have never been this close to getting him, I fully expect us to start negotiating with barca for him now.

 

[Nails]

I can’t see how this can possibly happen now.

If he performs a u-turn, the Barca fans would never forgive him.

Have you read it? He's slagged the club off. Far from over.

 

[teddykgb]

This ^^^

Taking free off the table would have been Bartomeus number 1 priority but it’s hard to see him engaging in negotiations now. It’s suicidal but their entire stance has made no sense from the beginning. Just don’t see how he now pivots to selling him when Messi takes litigation off the table. It was the strongest (but most risky) leverage he had and he just gave it away

 

[Chi-town blues]

5 D chess

 

[christened at st marks]

Let him rot there

 

[manimanc]

yes, what an idiot. the guff, spin and Uturns he came out with were staggering.

What did he say?

 

[herrock]

He wants out ,but doesn't want a legal battle with the club he loves over the 700million fee to move, so stays until the summer when it starts all over again.

 

[Chi-town blues]

Let him rot there

come on man

 

[kaz7]

His legal advisers must be pretty shit .

Flip flopping in the same day, not great for their cv

 

[didsburyblu]

Think It’s possible he’s made that move to stay we’ll make an offer and give Barcelona a decision to make keep an unhappy player and lose him for nothing or take 1000 mill now. He’s put the ball firmly in their court.
Think there’s more to play out yet.

Deffo think if we're offering a billion he will be ours!