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

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tolmie's hairdoo said:
I might as well try to elaborate a little further (just out of courtesy for my own excitement on Saturday) and say this info is coming out of Abu Dhabi and not from the Etihad (no fucker is back working there anyhow)

His father and reps have made direct contact very recently. Allegedly, they had waiting until Barca exited the Champions League (which suggests a particular mindset was already a while in place?)

Positions are being leveraged all the time, but there is something very different about this Messi chatter - we haven't been doing the chasing and I think Txiki and Pep had completely resigned themselves to him not ever leaving Barcelona.

Something big is seemingly happening behind the scenes. There are people working within the CFG genuinely excited about something big coming down the pike.

Messi would be a separate entity to our current transfer business, as the club briefed the press pack very recently that a report from the Athletic that we had £300m to spend was wide of the mark.
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I will only get excited when I see Messi at the Etihad, but thanks for the detailed update.
 
tolmie's hairdoo said:
I might as well try to elaborate a little further (just out of courtesy for my own excitement on Saturday) and say this info is coming out of Abu Dhabi and not from the Etihad (no fucker is back working there anyhow)

His father and reps have made direct contact very recently. Allegedly, they had waiting until Barca exited the Champions League (which suggests a particular mindset was already a while in place?)

Positions are being leveraged all the time, but there is something very different about this Messi chatter - we haven't been doing the chasing and I think Txiki and Pep had completely resigned themselves to him not ever leaving Barcelona.

Something big is seemingly happening behind the scenes. There are people working within the CFG genuinely excited about something big coming down the pike.

Messi would be a separate entity to our current transfer business, as the club briefed the press pack very recently that a report from the Athletic that we had £300m to spend was wide of the mark.
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Thanks as always TH

I guess the difference like you say is that it is Messi (or his people at least) that maybe pushing this a little (they have made contact with us whereas with other transfers it might be, but not always, the club that makes contact with the agent.
I can understand how Messi is pissed off - what the barca board did by trying to discredit him through social media platforms was firstly bemusing and secondly dirty. Just why?

Ive always thought that getting Messi would not affect our trsnfer business elsewhere -he is a one off and IF he is available you have a special contingency for that locked in a box xomewhere only to be opened if the word ever comes so to speak

The thing happening behind the scenes has to be the possibility of getting Messi - nothing else would generate that level of involvement (esp as you say its coming out of Abu Dhabi - this suggests that there is a lot more invovled than a normal transfer - Im not saying HRH would be invovled - he wouldnt - but it may take more than Khaldoon alone to pull this one off)

Im still hesitant about getting my hopes up BUT I genuinely believe that the club is at least trying.

Would there be any hesistancy from Pep or Txixi about Messi coming to city do you think? - How he fits into the team they are rebuilding, the affect on the dressing room, wage structure - the extra negative pressure on the club (esp after the CAS case - we know how the media will try nd spin this IF we did get him)?
 
tolmie's hairdoo said:
I might as well try to elaborate a little further (just out of courtesy for my own excitement on Saturday) and say this info is coming out of Abu Dhabi and not from the Etihad (no fucker is back working there anyhow)

His father and reps have made direct contact very recently. Allegedly, they had waiting until Barca exited the Champions League (which suggests a particular mindset was already a while in place?)

Positions are being leveraged all the time, but there is something very different about this Messi chatter - we haven't been doing the chasing and I think Txiki and Pep had completely resigned themselves to him not ever leaving Barcelona.

Something big is seemingly happening behind the scenes. There are people working within the CFG genuinely excited about something big coming down the pike.

Messi would be a separate entity to our current transfer business, as the club briefed the press pack very recently that a report from the Athletic that we had £300m to spend was wide of the mark.
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Btw that 300m wide off the mark in terms of plus or minus lol
 
tolmie's hairdoo said:
I might as well try to elaborate a little further (just out of courtesy for my own excitement on Saturday) and say this info is coming out of Abu Dhabi and not from the Etihad (no fucker is back working there anyhow)

His father and reps have made direct contact very recently. Allegedly, they had waiting until Barca exited the Champions League (which suggests a particular mindset was already a while in place?)

Positions are being leveraged all the time, but there is something very different about this Messi chatter - we haven't been doing the chasing and I think Txiki and Pep had completely resigned themselves to him not ever leaving Barcelona.

Something big is seemingly happening behind the scenes. There are people working within the CFG genuinely excited about something big coming down the pike.

Messi would be a separate entity to our current transfer business, as the club briefed the press pack very recently that a report from the Athletic that we had £300m to spend was wide of the mark.
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As somebody who has been both sceptical (and still am) and opposed to the signing of Messi, I was horrified to read Chelsea were looking at signing him.
It gave me a new perspective. If he is on the move I’d rather it were us.
 
peace frog said:
your an itk, you cant jump on the back of TH post , that looks a bit desperate
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to be fair, @Ezzy has never mentioned messi - most of his predcitions were around younger players - one ro two which have come off

The one which he predcited that I would be really excited about the prospect of would be Thiago Almada - he does look good for a kid
 
g180aj said:
I will only get excited when I see Messi at the Etihad, but thanks for the detailed update.
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It's still okay to be excited, bud. It's a bit like Scarlett Johansson and Amy Adams telling me I'm on for a three-way at the end of the evening.

They might well think better of it, but it would be remiss of me not to imagine the infinite possibilities.

Especially so, when you haven't tried to chat them up in the first place!
 
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