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

[domalino]

Im guessing there will have to be significant movement of players out as well

3 gone already - Sane, Bravo and David Silva

Other outs? - Zinchenko, Ota, Garcia

I cant think of anyone else that realistically we would look to sell other than Stones but with Garcia more likely to leave I would imagine th club will want to keep Stones and work on him becoming the player we know he can be

If Messi arrives, Mahrez would become redundant and at 29 I suspect there's still a market out there for him to get a decent fee of 50m+. He's also one of our top earners.

 

[citytill1die84]

6 new signings for the 1st team?

Absolutely no chance.

 

[Gio's mate]

If Messi arrives, Mahrez would become redundant and at 29 I suspect there's still a market out there for him to get a decent fee of 50m+. He's also one of our top earners.

With this in mind, Mahrez, Garcia & Angelino, in exchange for Messi should easily cover the £100m being banded about.

 

[zepenedo]

With this in mind, Mahrez, Garcia & Angelino, in exchange for Messi should easily cover the £100m being banded about.

I don't think they'd take Mahrez given his age and he fact that they're aiming to rejuvenate their squad.
I could easily see an italian big team (Milan, Inter) paying a good fee for him though.

 

[mosssideblue]

Yeah - I guess Messi is pissed off at the moment butt here is always a chance he could calm down and decide that he is being a bit rash by wanting out. Heat of the moment type of stuff.

There is that but, on the field Barca are declining rapidly and he may feel now is the time to jump ship

 

[adam.marrett]

This week. All for the 1st Team

We want them all to be ready for "Pre-season"

6 in week? When would the first one be and who?

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

Yeah,

I can see it already - CFG and a very creative way of funding Messi that sees him play for city, then NYC then take a controlling stake in an Argentinian club that’s part of CFG in the near future, messi football schools everywhere and a branding agreement with CFG not Manchester City that bridges the income gap for messi short and long term.

UEFA and FIFA trying very hard to find a way of stopping it, is sailing close to the wind but getting away with it as it’s ‘legally acceptable’.

That’s how I would do it anyway........

Haha - we did pitch the soccer schools idea to Kaka, but this would ceetainly be a different level.

I don't think we could go down the same path with someone like Messi, so readily identifiable as a Barcelona legend.

If I recall rightly, Neymar's £40m signing-on fee to PSG was paid separately, to become the global ambassador for the Qatar World Cup?

Could certainly see Abu Dhabi citing some kind of precedent, front-loading a massive part of his salary as a signing-on fee or giving him a small but significant percentage in the CFG (think about it...)

We would still have to pay him £500k a week salary through our own wage bill, purely for the optics, but the majority of his current earning power could be done well in advance and off the books.

Between us and the bedpost, Sheikh Mansour could push a button tomorrow that would see £50m land in Messi's bank account and another £20m to his dad.

Unless someone hacks Messi's banking details or he fails to pay the tax, there is fuck all our bitter rivals or Uefa could do about it.

 

[Rammyblues]

Personally don't care about how much he costs if we can get him, it would piss on everyones chips, rags, dippers and all the scum media. The cost is down to the club to sort, the players formation and tactics are for Pep to sort out I am not going to second guess how Pep would play Messi. Fuck, you have to pinch yourself if he does come to us and this is not another excuse to get a few more euros out of Barca.

 

[argyle]

Besides Messi rumours, anything for the other positions/players that need strengthening/replacing?

 

[domalino]

6 new signings for the 1st team?

Absolutely no chance.

Aké, Torres, done. Koulibaly, Aouar seem pretty likely.

Messi is being worked on apparently.

A LB wouldn't surprise anyone. Nor would a GK if Steffan decides he wants to play more than 5 games a season.

 

[simon23]

If Messi arrives, Mahrez would become redundant and at 29 I suspect there's still a market out there for him to get a decent fee of 50m+. He's also one of our top earners.

I see what you are getting at BUT there is a numbers game as well - we need to have squad depth as well - long long season.
Surprised he is one of our top earners tbh

 

[manimanc]

Doesn't the 93:20 geezer post ITK info which is usually spot on too?

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

that show i read it and that Messi would be completely different/irrelevant from any other budget we had for transfers

Correct. We ain't dropping £300m for signings already identified.

 

[MeatHunterrr]

6 new signings for the 1st team?

Absolutely no chance.

Why? City planned to sign 9 in 2017 summer for example.

There will be most likely 5 new signings, so six new players is not that wide off the mark.

 

[zepenedo]

Why? City planned to sign 9 in 2017 summer for example.

There will be at least 5 new signings, so six new players is not that wide off the mark.

Ederson, Danilo, Walker, Mendy, Bernardo... Who else were we going for?

 

[argyle]

Hoping for a new Left Back and Defensive Midfielder but I know it's a long shot.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

It's interesting that the club came out and played that down, because Jack Gaughan said the same about a 300m gross spend, and he's pretty reliable these days.

The club made a point of dismissing it, although the optics of such a spend in the current climate could be a reasoning for it.

I understand it was The Athletic's claims that were dismissed, not sure who else might have picked it up elsewhere or wrote similar.

As you say Jack G is one of the very few City like to still court these days.

 

[Neville Kneville]

Haha - we did pitch the soccer schools idea to Kaka, but this would ceetainly be a different level.

I don't think we could go down the same path with someone like Messi, so readily identifiable as a Barcelona legend.

If I recall rightly, Neymar's £40m signing-on fee to PSG was paid separately, to become the global ambassador for the Qatar World Cup?

Could certainly see Abu Dhabi citing some kind of precedent, front-loading a massive part of his salary as a signing-on fee or giving him a small but significant percentage in the CFG (think about it...)

We would still have to pay him £500k a week salary through our own wage bill, purely for the optics, but the majority of his current earning power could be done well in advance and off the books.

Between us and the bedpost, Sheikh Mansour could push a button tomorrow that would see £50m land in Messi's bank account and another £20m to his dad.

Unless someone hacks Messi's banking details or he fails to pay the tax, there is fuck all our bitter rivals or Uefa could do about it.

This is why I've never held much credence to the Der Spiegel/ UEFA charges.

If any club truly wanted to bypass UEFA's rules, rather than doing it in a way which, if discovered, would leave them open to sanctions, there are many many ways of achieving that, without doing something piss obvious.

 

[citytill1die84]

Aké, Torres, done. Koulibaly, Aouar seem pretty likely.

Messi is being worked on apparently.

A LB wouldn't surprise anyone. Nor would a GK if Steffan decides he wants to play more than 5 games a season.

He said 6 new signings this week all for the 1st team.

Again absolutely no chance.

I also don't see any rumours of Aouar being likely?

 

[Neville Kneville]

Hoping for a new Left Back and Defensive Midfielder but I know it's a long shot.

I wish there was a quarduple 'like' button.