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

[simon23]

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.

cheers

 

[zepenedo]

This week. All for the 1st Team

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

Jesus Christ, I guess Messy really is coming then.
Koulibaly seems to be the most obvious one.
I can see us signing Thiago or Aouar (or both) over Grealish, although we do have to meet the 8 homegrown player quota.
Lautaro maybe? I'm not sure, but it'd make sense if we're not signing anyone for the next couple years.
There have been links with Alaba and Coman as well, the former would be amazing.

You sir got me very very excited. I had a feeling that the silence over the past couple weeks might mean we were moving a lot in the background but I never though this.

 

[domalino]

Btw that 300m wide off the mark in terms of plus or minus lol

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.

 

[Tugay One Cup]

your an itk, you cant jump on the back of TH post , that looks a bit desperate

And people are still gobbling it up hahaha

 

[simon23]

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

Edit - Angelino as well

 

[JimmyGrimble10]

@Ezzy are you still confident regarding Aouar or do you think it’s agent chatter?

 

[BlueMoonz1977]

This week. All for the 1st Team

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

WTF ! 6 new signings this week.

Do you know who all these signings are or some ?

 

[JWT_98]

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.

 

[BringBackSwales]

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

No I got that bit Simon ta, I meant excluding any unexpected move was he suggesting significantly more or less than £300m? I read it as being the latter

 

[HaalandEffect]

Eric Garcia ending up in Barcelona?