Eric Garcia to Barcelona

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This is a difficult situation. I do not think many blues want him to stay knowing that he would rather be elsewhere and will be leaving at the end of the season. Any mistakes he makes will be jumped upon and his game could suffer massively.
Barcelona just need to offer a sensible fee, he can leave and everyone can move on. Maybe we should be offering him to other Spanish clubs and make it clear to him that if a decent offer comes in he either leaves or goes back to the EDS for the year - if that happened then Barce may not offer him the contract that they would now as he would no longer be a first team player.
 
Why do Barca think Garcia is worth less than Torres, when they are in pretty much the same situation? Around the same age bracket, both just made international debuts, in last year of their contracts except one plays for a tier 1 team and the other for a team that's been struggling. Oh i forgot, it's Barca.
 
Id obviously make them sweat and push for a better deal than that but I’d take the money. We’re losing him for free in 12 months time, if he was a valuable member of the squad it would be worth losing him in 2 months but he’s not, he’s a kid that was elevated to a position way above his current ability on the idea he stays long term and improves significantly, judging him on his current ability alone, I’d sooner have any of Stones, Otamendi and Fernandinho. Let him go now add the fee to the Koulibaly deal and get that pushed over the line.
 
Let’s be honest if he were that good we wouldn’t be getting koulibaly AND ake
He ain’t gonna play and he doesn’t want to be here
Just get as much as we can for him
And put it towards getting someone we need
Would make it as Difficult as possible for Barca though
 
jamesha said:
This is a difficult situation. I do not think many blues want him to stay knowing that he would rather be elsewhere and will be leaving at the end of the season. Any mistakes he makes will be jumped upon and his game could suffer massively.
Barcelona just need to offer a sensible fee, he can leave and everyone can move on. Maybe we should be offering him to other Spanish clubs and make it clear to him that if a decent offer comes in he either leaves or goes back to the EDS for the year - if that happened then Barce may not offer him the contract that they would now as he would no longer be a first team player.
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I agree.

If he stays, I'll need someone to tell me the difference, when his game is suffering due to this, so I don't accidentally jump on him thinking he's just useless at defending.
 
shevtheblue said:
Why do Barca think Garcia is worth less than Torres, when they are in pretty much the same situation? Around the same age bracket, both just made international debuts, in last year of their contracts except one plays for a tier 1 team and the other for a team that's been struggling. Oh i forgot, it's Barca.
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This is the most arrogant club on the continent we are talking about.
 
ninjamonkey said:
Id obviously make them sweat and push for a better deal than that but I’d take the money. We’re losing him for free in 12 months time, if he was a valuable member of the squad it would be worth losing him in 2 months but he’s not, he’s a kid that was elevated to a position way above his current ability on the idea he stays long term and improves significantly, judging him on his current ability alone, I’d sooner have any of Stones, Otamendi and Fernandinho. Let him go now add the fee to the Koulibaly deal and get that pushed over the line.
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Agreed. Even if the offer is as low as €15m, is he worth €15m to our squad this season? absolutely not and Garcia would spend the majority of the season on the bench. We can hold a strong position for a couple of weeks and then let him go.

Unfortunately, there is no interest from any other club that could drive the price up so we might have to settle for Barca’s best offer.
 
domalino said:
It would look incredibly weak if we come to the table and negotiate for Garcia when they refused to do the same with Messi.
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Not at all, it would be what a well run football club does.

Txiki isn't going to sit there with his fingers in his ears screaming "I CANT HEAR YOU" like Bartomeu clearly did when Messi asked to leave.

Garcia needs to be sold, both to get us some cash in and also because if he stays then Pep might actually try and play him which is not to the benefit of the team (IMO)
 
decmancity said:
Not at all, it would be what a well run football club does.

Txiki isn't going to sit there with his fingers in his ears screaming "I CANT HEAR YOU" like Bartomeu clearly did when Messi asked to leave.

Garcia needs to be sold, both to get us some cash in and also because if he stays then Pep might actually try and play him which is not to the benefit of the team (IMO)
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This. But Bartomeu hasn't done himself any favours with regards to getting Garcia on the cheap so if he thinks he can low ball us he can, in the oft-used words recently, 'do one'.
 
I’m not hugely bothered either way but it’s not like the lad has poisoned the tea lady and waved farts in Pep’s direction. He said he’s not renewing, which is understandable given the pull of his old club. It’s not a hanging offence and he appears happy enough to stay another season.

As for playing against Lyon, one of the manager‘s main jobs is to understand his players. It may look different from outside but, if Pep was convinced Garcia was in the right frame of mind, that’s OK with me.

Whether he gets much game time remains to be seen.
 
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I think we obviously need to get more than the €10m that’s been floating around, but keeping on to a player that has actively said he wants to leave and can sign elsewhere for free in January is just stupid and will be disruptive, regardless of whether the club are proving a point.

The club agreed a €18m fee for Angelino for goodness sake - demanding €30m for a player that’s only just broke into the team and has 1 year left on his contract just doesn’t make any sense to me.

£15m and we should be shipping him off. I don’t think we’ll see any outgoings until we have signed Koulibaly, but as soon as that has been finalised he should be the first person out of the door.

Keeping him around as a 5th choice when we know he’s actively leaving would just be a kick in the teeth to someone like Harwood-Bellis.
 
sir baconface said:
I’m not hugely bothered either way but it’s not like the lad has poisoned the tea lady and waved farts in Pep’s direction. He said he’s not renewing, which is understandable given the pull of his old club. It’s not a hanging offence and he appears happy enough to stay another season.

As for playing against Lyon, one of the manager‘s main jobs is to understand his players. It may look different from outside but, if Pep was convinced Garcia was in the right frame of mind, that’s OK with me.

Whether he gets much game time remains to be seen.
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He seems happy enough to stay another season because City will get fuck all and Garcia will get more because he`s stiffed us.

I can understand the pull of Barca for a Catalan. But, why would we want to play someone and give him game time and experience just so he can go skipping off into the sunset with money that could go towards a player for us fans to watch.
 
One of our problems is our opening fixture back 4 is anybody's guess.

You'd think Laporte and Walker are pencilled in. The other centre back may be Garcia or Stones or Ake. The LB, Cancelo, Mendy, Zinchenko or Ake.

So unlike most successful teams we don't really have a settled defence!
 
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