Lionel Messi | Joins Inter Miami (pg4111)

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SWPISHOME said:
Genuinely prefer us to go looking for a Sergio Aguero lomg term replacement now. I would love to see Messi in a City shirt best footballer on the planet. But the best thing for Manchester City long term is find a striker who will be with us 10-12 years that can score 30 goals a season. Not an easy task but this is were scouts get paid to do their job.
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The Messi deal is said to be separate to any of our summer business so as such it could be both a long term successor to Serg and Messi, not one or the other
 
Fernandinho’s 35, Aguero’s 33 soon and can’t keep fit, Mahrez and Gundogan are 30, KDB is 30 soon. I trust the board but I feel like we’re putting a lot of eggs into one basket when we have a lot of players to replace over the coming years. He won’t be the same player when he’s 36.

How much will Messi’s total contract cost? How much will it push wages up by? Will we really make a profit off increased sponsorships or will it benefit the Premiership more than us?
 
Sir Joe Aguero said:
Fernandinho’s 35, Aguero’s 33 soon and can’t keep fit, Mahrez and Gundogan are 30, KDB is 30 soon. I trust the board but I feel like we’re putting a lot of eggs into one basket when we have a lot of players to replace over the coming years. He won’t be the same player when he’s 36.

How much will Messi’s total contract cost? How much will it push wages up by? Will we really make a profit off increased sponsorships or will it benefit the Premiership more than us?
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I'm sure that the club knows all the answers to those questions. When have they let us down?
 
tweety said:
I'm sure that the club knows all the answers to those questions. When have they let us down?
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They’ve not, but this is a unique situation. I just hope the numbers make sense.

What if we signed Haaland and Messi said ‘I want to play false 9’? Do we say no?
 
Sir Joe Aguero said:
They’ve not, but this is a unique situation. I just hope the numbers make sense.

What if we signed Haaland and Messi said ‘I want to play false 9’? Do we say no?
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Of course not, it would be a great problem to have. Certainly with Pep in charge we are a highly adaptable team who can play multiple systems. It would be great if we got both.
 
Sir Joe Aguero said:
Fernandinho’s 35, Aguero’s 33 soon and can’t keep fit, Mahrez and Gundogan are 30, KDB is 30 soon. I trust the board but I feel like we’re putting a lot of eggs into one basket when we have a lot of players to replace over the coming years. He won’t be the same player when he’s 36.

How much will Messi’s total contract cost? How much will it push wages up by? Will we really make a profit off increased sponsorships or will it benefit the Premiership more than us?
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Juventus is a publicly listed company. Look up their stock price on a chart (I'm trying to add it here but might mess it up I'm not the most tech savvy). Look what happens to the valuation when Ronaldo signs.

City's owners, including the American and Chinese investors, can make a killing if an equivalent event happens for City, which would be signing Messi.

It doesn't matter what happens on the pitch. If they have the chance to do this deal, they will do it.
 

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Sir Joe Aguero said:
They’ve not, but this is a unique situation. I just hope the numbers make sense.

What if we signed Haaland and Messi said ‘I want to play false 9’? Do we say no?
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We would play as we do now.

----------Haaland---Messi
--Foden-----de Bruyne-----Sterling
------------Rodri----Cancelo
--Zinchenko----Dias-----Stones
----------------Ederson
 
Sir Joe Aguero said:
Fernandinho’s 35, Aguero’s 33 soon and can’t keep fit, Mahrez and Gundogan are 30, KDB is 30 soon. I trust the board but I feel like we’re putting a lot of eggs into one basket when we have a lot of players to replace over the coming years. He won’t be the same player when he’s 36.

How much will Messi’s total contract cost? How much will it push wages up by? Will we really make a profit off increased sponsorships or will it benefit the Premiership more than us?
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He’s not been the same player for over 2 years now and the decline could accelerate within a few months
 
Craig said:
He’s not been the same player for over 2 years now and the decline could accelerate within a few months
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For OVER 2 years? Messi got the Ballon d’Or in 2019, didn’t he? And hit „double-double” by 20+ goals and 20+ assists in the 19/20 season (did anybody do that?)
Also, he was the top scorer in Europe for 3 consecutive seasons recently.
So tired of those doubting Messi.
Where have you been for the last decade?
 
FantasyIreland said:
That leaves out two of our current best players.
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I don’t know if people remember a report from earlier in the season about how the club thought five or six players were “untouchable” but that for the rest they were willing to listen to offers next summer. So.
 
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