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4 years in the prem playing with your best mate then u can go back to Argentina or the US if he likes

Come on....
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
Yes we could. I've said before that buying Messi is effectively a zero-sum transfer. When this deal was first put together (in 2013) I believe the club reached agreement with Nike and Etihad that their respective deals would be increased to a level that covered the fee. That's something like an additional £25m from Etihad and £12m from Nike.

In addition we'd secured a number of additional sponsors at £5m a year each, which would cover his wages.

So there's absolutely no issue wrt FFP as amortisation and wages would be covered by additional revenue.
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Makes sense although aren't Nike out the door at the end of the season? Not that a Messi clause couldn't be written into the UA contract.

I don't see it happening this summer but it will be interesting to see if Messi signs that new contract: we could make it worth his while not to and still save money vs paying his release clause now.
 
OB1 said:
Makes sense although aren't Nike out the door at the end of the season? Not that a Messi clause couldn't be written into the UA contract.

I don't see it happening this summer but it will be interesting to see if Messi signs that new contract: we could make it worth his while not to and still save money vs paying his release clause now.
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If we've been trying since 2013 then why we would wait one more year I don't know. He's not getting any younger
 
Regarding Fpp, as I said earlier when trying to decipher Tolmie's recent video about us not starting the fire.

We didn't. PSG did. And if they can sign Neymar and by looks of it Mbappe in one go then any fire over fpp is down to them and there is no way that Neymar and Messi will both be kept away from elite competitions by a petty vendetta against both of us.
 
Healdplace said:
Regarding Fpp, as I said earlier when trying to decipher Tolmie's recent video about us not starting the fire.

We didn't. PSG did. And if they can sign Neymar and by looks of it Mbappe in one go then any fire over fpp is down to them and there is no way that Neymar and Messi will both be kept away from elite competitions by a petty vendetta against both of us.
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So basically if they sign both Neymar and Mbappe we then spend the 250 mill to release Messi?
 
OB1 said:
Makes sense although aren't Nike out the door at the end of the season? Not that a Messi clause couldn't be written into the UA contract.

I don't see it happening this summer but it will be interesting to see if Messi signs that new contract: we could make it worth his while not to and still save money vs paying his release clause now.
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It was Nike at the time but having Messi enables us to name our price.
 
Only club in the universe where transfer targets range from Lionel Messi to Jonny Evans. Love City, me.
 
chesterbells said:
So basically if they sign both Neymar and Mbappe we then spend the 250 mill to release Messi?
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Not saying we will pay that when he is free next Summer. Just that if ever fpp was a consideration its not now given what PSG are up to.

And someone somewhere might want to show Qatar they are not the only big new kid on the block.
 
First we have press embargo till Sunday night.
Then Tolmie comes out today with one of his Videos.
Finally Duncan Castles tweets to say Man City transfer news later.
Are these all linked?
 
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