It's Quiet Thread 15 - Txiki Blinders

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Interesting, and good, to read that. I’ve always been unsure about him, as I think he gives the ball away too often with his last touch, be it a pass or a movement past a player, but is that not something you’ve really picked up on or noticed? It might just be an unfair perception on my part.
I'd agree he likes to play the risk part of risk and reward a bit more than i'd prefer when further up the field, but the passing lanes he cuts off, interceptions and the speed he see's things developing as been an eye opener for for me this season
 
Laporta has done an incredible job at Barcelona this window.

€170m in the door in sales and reduced the wage bill by €250m to get them in line.

With that, they'll probably be out of their crisis next summer.
They will be a selling club for at least the next 10 years. Not much left to sell and no Messi and not winning anything won’t make there situation any better… they will be playing Europa league soon enough
 
Chelsea agree loan move for neguez, are we pedalling backwards, tin hat on again,!!!!
Not necessarily backwards, but I don't believe we've gone forward. We lose Sergio, and the chairman says we will replace. So we sign Grealish.

While Grealish is decent, did we really need him? No midfielders/wide players have left, it's our strongest area.

A striker should have been the absolute priority. If Kane was the target we pissed about terribly, go in with the offer we think he's worth, or can afford. If it's turned down so be it, and move on. We should have had a plan B. Clearly we didn't.

I don't believe we were in for Ronaldo (his agent played a blinder, and as good as stitched Utd up getting them to take him)

Chelsea are stronger, Liverpool have there injured players back, not sure on Utd as all the 'billy big bollocks' players probably won't play together.

Going to be a tough season.
 
They will be a selling club for at least the next 10 years. Not much left to sell and no Messi and not winning anything won’t make there situation any better… they will be playing Europa league soon enough
Their revenue is still extremely high (considering covid effects are gone)...I think next season is a write-off for them. They will just focus on getting CL, but the next one they will recover for sure.
 
They will be a selling club for at least the next 10 years. Not much left to sell and no Messi and not winning anything won’t make there situation any better… they will be playing Europa league soon enough

Hahahah no.

Barcelona will be fine, as soon as the fans and tourists return (they already have) their financials will rebound and so will their allowed wage bill.
 
Their team is wank though.
Who cares look at the league. They will still finish top 4 and get in the cl. Few seasons of that and they are back. Might even benefit them with no Messi. Makes it more of a team then give messi the ball and hope for the best.
 
Hahahah no.

Barcelona will be fine, as soon as the fans and tourists return (they already have) their financials will rebound and so will their allowed wage bill.

Didn’t they say they’ve lost something like €480m? Yep they’ll be fine once fans are back but tv money ain’t great massive debt like Madrid..
 
Not necessarily backwards, but I don't believe we've gone forward. We lose Sergio, and the chairman says we will replace. So we sign Grealish.

While Grealish is decent, did we really need him? No midfielders/wide players have left, it's our strongest area.

A striker should have been the absolute priority. If Kane was the target we pissed about terribly, go in with the offer we think he's worth, or can afford. If it's turned down so be it, and move on. We should have had a plan B. Clearly we didn't.

I don't believe we were in for Ronaldo (his agent played a blinder, and as good as stitched Utd up getting them to take him)

Chelsea are stronger, Liverpool have there injured players back, not sure on Utd as all the 'billy big bollocks' players probably won't play together.

Going to be a tough season.
We can’t win the league every season. The best teams in history haven’t been able to do so why would we in an amazingly strong and competitive league

what we need to do is make sure we’re in the top 4 minimum and hopefully compete for and win at least 1 cup

we need to get top 4 otherwise you can forget your haalands etc that we hopefully will be going for next year
 
Do sponsors have stipulations in contracts where they can renegotiate if x term is met? In my example Messi leaving. Something like "we will give you 50m a year until 2025 on the understanding Lionel Messi will be at Barca until 2025. If Lionel Messi leaves we reserve the right to lower that sponsorship to 25m a season" or something like that?

I can't imagine Barca sponsors being to happy about the current situation.
 
Didn’t they say they’ve lost something like €480m? Yep they’ll be fine once fans are back but tv money ain’t great massive debt like Madrid..
Love him or loathe him, Tebas being a nasty guy is probably going to have saved Barcelona financially by next year.
 
We can’t win the league every season. The best teams in history haven’t been able to do so why would we in an amazingly strong and competitive league

what we need to do is make sure we’re in the top 4 minimum and hopefully compete for and win at least 1 cup

we need to get top 4 otherwise you can forget your haalands etc that we hopefully will be going for next year
 
Didn’t they say they’ve lost something like €480m? Yep they’ll be fine once fans are back but tv money ain’t great massive debt like Madrid..

Long term structured debt isn't a real problem and given their pre-pandemic revenues of €900m the 1.3B debt really isn't that massive.

La Liga's financial controls have cause all their belt tightening and losing Messi but it's also stopped them from getting into serious trouble.

They might have 1 down season, they'll still qualify for the CL and things will be back to normal.
 
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