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[FantasyIreland]

Bony 15 m ?
Lol

If we can convince him his future lies with Pellegrini we may get double that.

 

[domalino]

Seeing as Sterling cant even get a freekick If the opponent kills him, i Think neymar would get a 15 game suspension and 3 years in jail even before the ink had dried on the contract....

i think people greatly overestimate the difference in refereeing between Spain and England in 2017.

 

[domalino]

I reckon we could raise £140m from the sales of Aguero, Hart, Mangala, Fernando, Nolito, Delph, Bony, Mooy

Aguero £65m
Hart £15m
Mangala £15m
Fernando £10m
Delph £10m
Bony £15m
Mooy £10m

Neymar's buyout is £210m apparently but I reckon £150m would be hard to turn down if Neymar is up for the move.

Neymars buyout is £170m

 

[Yates]

I have no doubt in my mind that Neymar would be a bust in England.

On what basis?

 

[cadds92]

Neymars buyout is £170m

Interesting.

Even if we raise the funds I just cannot see us alllowing ourselves to have a £200m net spend.

Would we really spend £350m in one summer?

 

[kun]

Neymar vs mbappe who would we rather have

Neymar. I'd take Mbappé in a heartbeat though.

 

[MeatHunterrr]

Interesting.

Even if we raise the funds I just cannot see us alllowing ourselves to have a £200m net spend.

Would we really spend £350m in one summer?

We had about £160m net spend last summer. £200m net is possible I think.

 

[cadds92]

We had about £160m net spend last summer. £200m net is possible I think.

As long as FFP doesn't bite us then let's go for it.

I would love a player like Neymar at City.

 

[johnmc]

So if Neymars buy out is £175m wouldn't it cost another 20%+ (£35m) on top as we would need to give him the money to pass onto Barca and he would pay tax on it? That's how I understood the Spanish clauses to work.

 

[Akiva]

Interesting.

Even if we raise the funds I just cannot see us alllowing ourselves to have a £200m net spend.

Would we really spend £350m in one summer?

I'm going to say no, if only because I think there's zero chance we'd actually get Neymar, but you'd have to imagine that in many respects he would pay for himself (sponsorships, shirt sales etc)

Like all potential world record transfers, such as Mbappe, either we have some secret money source (Sheikh or Messi fund etc) or the more likely scenario - Kun's off. You have to wonder though, if we are in on Sanchez, are we honestly going to be looking at Neymar too?