Lionel Messi | Joins Inter Miami (pg4111)

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I will say it again. If people think Pep wouldn't want Messi to join him, they are deluded. Pep adores Messi, Pep will want him.

The real story is, if Pep isn't interested, it simply means Pep knows something else...
 
We spend years kissing his arse and tonguing his ring piece and when it finally looks like he's available ..........we're skint.
Typical City haha
 
Damocles said:
It absolutely beggars belief for anybody to believe that Man City would not be in for Messi and I don't care what any journalist or ITK says about this. We are absolutely in for him. There's no possible way that the greatest and most marketable player in history comes up and we ignore him. No chance at all.
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Haha. Love you mate. I can’t quite believe that NOW he’s free. After everything we’ve done to try and get him previously. I also think it’s a bit harsh for Pep to be so down on him for not moving last summer. Barto was always going to make it hard.
 
Damocles said:
It will be Messi. Messi is a singularity, he isn't bound by the regular laws of policy like any one else. If somebody thinks that we're going to turn down Lionel Messi in order to sign Harry Kane, I just don't know what to tell you. We've been chasing Messi for ten years. We've put three deals together for him. And now he's on the market we're acting like a spurned lover rather than a professional football club? I absolutely don't buy it.
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Pretty much agree with all of this apart from the Messi OR Kane bit... It's not ridiculous to think that it could be BOTH

Whoever signs Messi will need to leverage some big commercial deals in order to pay all or most of Messi's wages - I am sure both us and PSG (and maybe others) have been looking into this very carefully and if we have run the numbers and can make it work then there is no reason why it should impact the Kane deal at all...
 
Keeper! said:
We have just given Grealish a big contract, big extensions for Dias, Ederson, KDB and Foden.

We want Kane, again big contract.

Can even our wealth cover Lionel for a couple of season? I have my doubts.

And please don't use the Messi generates his own money comment, I am not having that in terms of MCFC.

We have just signed Grealish, the new poster boy of the Premier league and if he is successful with us, probably the new poster boy of world football. He is now our marketing dream, not a 34 yr old fella, the kids want Jack not old man Lionel. And the kids are what the marketing man wants.
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He does generate his own money.
To become the poster boy for football you have to be elite...Grealish isnt yet.
Every kid in the world that likes football know Messi around the world......you cannot say the same for Grealish.
And in terms of ability on the pitch........they are at completely different levels
 
Keeper! said:
Not yet.....if he is successful with us, I would say he has a very decent chance of beating the little fella.

Messi and Ronaldo the football poster boys for a generation are fading, new heroes will be sought and Grealish is one who could be very much at the top of the pile.
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Probably the most deluded post I have ever seen. Grealish will never surpass Messi's marketability.
 
Keeper! said:
Not yet.....if he is successful with us, I would say he has a very decent chance of beating the little fella.

Messi and Ronaldo the football poster boys for a generation are fading, new heroes will be sought and Grealish is one who could be very much at the top of the pile.
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Just to give you an idea. You said that one day, if managed correctly, Grealish could perhaps even be as big as Beckham?

Messi is already bigger than Beckham ever was.
 
simon23 said:
He does generate his own money.
To become the poster boy for football you have to be elite...Grealish isnt yet.
Every kid in the world that likes football know Messi around the world......you cannot say the same for Grealish.
And in terms of ability on the pitch........they are at completely different levels
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At this time yes, but the likes of Grealish are the future.

And I still can't see how we could afford Grealish, Kane and Messi on the wage bill.

We would have to lose Bernardo, Sterling and probably one other.
 
Damocles said:
It will be Messi. Messi is a singularity, he isn't bound by the regular laws of policy like any one else. If somebody thinks that we're going to turn down Lionel Messi in order to sign Harry Kane, I just don't know what to tell you. We've been chasing Messi for ten years. We've put three deals together for him. And now he's on the market we're acting like a spurned lover rather than a professional football club? I absolutely don't buy it.
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To me that tells you all we need know. Chasing for ten years, and on the outside of it being used for a new contract each time. And here he is now at 34 without a club. His time to come here, for me, has been and gone. We seem to have pushed for Kane and he has responded to that positively. I feel it would be cruel to shelve him, making his situation poor at his club, just to sign someone who, as you say, has spurned us 3 times.

I think we would be weak to do that. Just my opinion, which by the tone of your message about the player I know you will 100% disagree with.
 
Damocles said:
It absolutely beggars belief for anybody to believe that Man City would not be in for Messi and I don't care what any journalist or ITK says about this. We are absolutely in for him. There's no possible way that the greatest and most marketable player in history comes up and we ignore him. No chance at all.
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Half agree, depending on what you mean by in for him.

Would we look at it, absolutely. Would we choose to abandon an in progress big transfer where a player seems committed to the move to make it happen? doubt it. Would we push current players out to make room for him? don't think so.

Will be interesting.
 
Keeper! said:
At this time yes, but the likes of Grealish are the future.

And I still can't see how we could afford Grealish, Kane and Messi on the wage bill.

We would have to lose Bernardo, Sterling and probably one other.
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We would need to loose a couple of players to accomodate both Messi and Kane but only due to squad size - the wages bit.. don't worry - there will be some major companies falling overthemselves to throw money at us and Messi to be associated with him ;)
 
Coatigan said:
Half agree, depending on what you mean by in for him.

Would we look at it, absolutely. Would we choose to abandon an in progress big transfer where a player seems committed to the move to make it happen? doubt it. Would we push current players out to make room for him? don't think so.

Will be interesting.
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Agreed imo there's no room for Messi especially if we sign Kane which I think will happen.
 
Keeper! said:
And how many have we gained from Grealish and how many in the future?

Look at the abuse Grealish's girlfriend got this summer from other women, Grealish is a hot property, dare I say it and it is something I don't like but he is rapidly becoming Beckham MkII
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Just stop please. Grealish is not the hot property you think he is. Messi is still the hottest property, not saying I want Messi though. Grealish is nothing outside England btw.
 
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