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

[crystal_mais]

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!

I have a Garfield Gif for this sort of dream but can't share on here as it violates the rules - add Eva Mendes in there and thats a perfect dream

 

[Neville Kneville]

Hate to say it but that couple of important saves from Neuer mostly with his feet 2-3x times, Ederson might have let them in ...

If the ball hit the open gap between his legs deflected & went in, rather than fortunately deflecting wide, I imagine you are right.

 

[TommyBenarbia]

6 new signings




As I said on June 30th:

6 new signings




As I said on June 30th:

Oh crap! I need some clean undies

 

[Ezzy]

6 - this week ! or over the next few weeks?

6 new signings!? All for the first team?

This week. All for the 1st Team

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

 

[simon23]

This week. All for the 1st Team

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

fair play to you - sticking your neck out again - that would be some work however to get all 6 done in a week

 

[BringBackSwales]

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.

I take it the inference is that £300m is overstated, not understated?!

 

[nmc]

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........

Der Spiegel article, leaks to the NYT and a UEFA investigation coming up....

 

[JimmyGrimble10]

6 new signings




As I said on June 30th:

What did you mean on June 30th? About the first team players?

 

[simon23]

I take it the inference is that £300m is overstated, not understated?!

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

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

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)?

I'd suspect zero hesitancy from Pep or Txiki if Messi doesn't push the button.

Aside from winning the Champions League, nothing else in club world football would give you immediately millions of new followers.