It's Quiet thread 14 - 'do one' edition

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It's pretty obvious what's going on here.
Barca are in the shit financially they peddle all these stories about him staying pushing out city's odds then the Barca president lumps on city at a decent price.
Next thing its announced he's off to city and the president makes enough to cover what he'll have to pay when he's ousted from the club :)
 
DMA's said:
I got on at 15/8 for him to stay as well. Softens the blow a bit
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But Ric is a known tight arse who hates spending his millions so now I think he's staying. The big boss man doesn't throw away his money.. Haha!
 
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didsburyblu said:
It's pretty obvious what's going on here.
Barca are in the shit financially they peddle all these stories about him staying pushing out city's odds then the Barca president lumps on city at a decent price.
Next thing its announced he's off to city and the president makes enough to cover what he'll have to pay when he's ousted from the club :)
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Will be plenty of insider trading going on.
 
Ric said:
I do it a lot with City, softens the blow if it doesn't pan out the way you want.
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I did it for the last 5 or 6 games of the 2019 title run-in. Kept backing the draw/defeat double chance, knowing that a single draw could be the nail in the coffin with Liverpool winning every game at the time. Ended up losing about £400 and it was worth every penny to see us win the league!
 
I started off in shock at this deal, firstly cos I thought it would never happen and secondly cos it seems Messi instigated it.
That quickly turned to excitement, the thought of Messi playing for us, especially getting him for free.
Then a couple of days ago that changed and I started looking at both sides of the story.
The way Barca have dug their heals in and stuck to their guns made me think that this won’t happen till next June.
Nothing to do with Messi changing his mind, but just that I think that Barca would want too much money to make this financially viable at this time.
Now I know this doesn’t make sense from a Barca standpoint, paying an unhappy player vast sums of money, but they are being run by a complete idiot who doesn’t seem to care about that.
The longer this stalemate goes on the more I think that’s what will happen.
Hopefully I’m wrong, though I don’t want us paying a huge fee to sign him along with the huge wages it would take to get him.
Even if he’s the GOAT.
Not ideal, but I’d take him for free next June if that’s what’s needed.
 
Big news about the Chinese rights - maybe the Prem can chip in to the deal to help bring Messi over as the potential ratings boost would be off the scale (Someone helping City, even in their own best interests?......pigs might fly).
 
BlueBas said:
Effing hell. Are we turning in to United? All this speculation has me giddy - I'd love to see Messi here! But if we don't get, I'm going to be gutted! I don't want to hear "we never wanted him anyway"
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Just comfort yourself in the fact that the club have handled this situation exceptionally professionally, at least in my view.
I was always of the opinion that the real benefit to us is to the club as a whole. Not necessarily to the team. It’s commercial, first and foremost in my mind.
It’s not just the money he will bring in, it’s the raising of our profile and it’s the likelihood of future big big targets not being afraid to follow his path.

The club have stayed silent. They know what figures work. They’ve left it to Messi to fight to meet those criteria.

The media have not mentioned us much because basically anything that Messi has leaked about us has already elevated us to a new platform.

Only real facts we have are that Messi said he wants out.
City are the only team he would entertain going to.
That is a huge vote of confidence. We are the only management he trusts.

That’s huge whether he comes or not.

Let the media spin it whatever way they want if he stays. That positive message about us will resonate throughout the professional football world.
 
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