Lionel Messi | Joins Inter Miami (pg4111)

[bluemonkey71]

How could that up front cost be paid outside of the club? Surely that's illegal?

 

[GeekinGav]

is your year very short? 52 weeks in a year x 800k = £41.6m.

It's a ridiculous, untruthful number.

truthfully i hope so .... think i was thinking £2m a month, but its £3.6m a month isnt it ... late night, tired i think.

 

[GeekinGav]

Your missing the transfer fee out for messi mate, circa 150 mill plus 24 mill a year for say five years, is an under estimate at about 250 mill.

very true. never gonna happen is it really?

 

[JoeMercer'sWay]

very true. never gonna happen is it really?

Can never say. It can happen, and we're trying to make it happen, but if you thought Pogba was tricky...

 

[Damocles]

How could that up front cost be paid outside of the club? Surely that's illegal?

It's not illegal for a UAE sponsor to decide that they want Messi as their new poster boy and give him a £50m a year fee for it. I'm sure it could be arranged if we were really dead set on it.

 

[Forzacitizens]

I would assume a lot of personal money (signing-on fee/agents/dad/the true cost of his weekly wage) could be offset by a one-off, up-front payment, outside of Manchester City.

The push of one button is really all it would take.

Even if we promised to pay him £1m a week in wages, as long as the figure on City's books is commensurate with what he earns already, nobody would be any the wiser.

Perfectly legal, as long as the Messi family remember to pay their own private tax affairs.

Are you suggesting that a third party effectively pays that upfront amount? How is that legal?

 

[Damocles]

Are you suggesting that a third party effectively pays that upfront amount? How is that legal?

How is it illegal?

 

[SPIDERBOY]

How is it illegal?

So someone like Etisalat could offer him a wedge and that would be deemed legal,or would that be illegal because it's already a club sponsor/partner?

 

[Damocles]

So someone like Etisalat could offer him a wedge and that would be deemed legal,or would that be illegal because it's already a club sponsor/partner?

Anybody can pay anybody else anything that they want, I don't see how it would be illegal.

 

[blueparrot]

Anybody can pay anybody else anything that they want, I don't see how it would be illegal.

While not illegal, could it not be seen as a FFP dodge and some sort of 3rd party deal?

 

[SPIDERBOY]

Anybody can pay anybody else anything that they want, I don't see how it would be illegal.

Dunno mate,that's why I'm asking......it's a no brainer if it's that simple,Etisalat,aabar chuck a few quid in,and he can drive a Nissan Micra about for a good few million more.

 

[SPIDERBOY]

While not illegal, could it not be seen as a FFP dodge and some sort of 3rd party deal?

I get where he's coming from,am I right in saying only the club show the books and a sponsor can tell UEFA to fuckoff,surely that's right?...yeah-no?

Suppose it's no different if he changed his boot sponsor to Nike?

 

[blueparrot]

I get where he's coming from,am I right in saying only the club show the books and a sponsor can tell UEFA to fuckoff,surely that's right?...yeah-no?

I suppose so, but if that's right would it not be just as easy for the sponsors to give us the money and let us pay him the wages.

 

[SPIDERBOY]

I suppose so, but if that's right would it not be just as easy for the sponsors to give us the money and let us pay him the wages.

I don't know mate,I'm thinking if the sponsor pays,then it ain't no different to them giving us the money,only it won't be on our books.

 

[blueparrot]

I don't know mate,I'm thinking if the sponsor pays,then it ain't no different to them giving us the money,only it won't be on our books.

Think we need somebody who knows, PB ?

 

[SPIDERBOY]

Think we need somebody who knows, PB ?

Yeah,PB...but what I'm saying is,rather than a sponsor/partner up the deal with city,if they gave him a personal sponsorship,they get him endorsing their product,he gets his money,we get the player and there's fuck all on our books,bar the fee and an average wage...no?

 

[mindmyp's_n_q's]

Mansour can pay him £100m to make an appearance at a family birthday. No need for anything like dodgy deals through businesses.

 

[blueparrot]

Yeah,PB...but what I'm saying is,rather than a sponsor/partner up the deal with city,if they gave him a personal sponsorship,they get him endorsing their product,he gets his money,we get the player and there's fuck all on our books,bar the fee and an average wage...no?

Yes,I get that but I don't see the advantage of keeping it off our books, if financially it makes no difference why make it look like a dodge for UEFA to try and accuse us of trying to find a loophole in the regulations.

 

[The Richard Wright Fan Club]

He can come here and play for fucking free the selfish money grabbing dwarf ****.

 

[Paladin]

Even if it were legal, imagine the furore in the whole of the remainder of footballdom. If we are hated now, we'd have no mates or support anywhere after a stunt like this. It won't happen. It's too United.