It's Quiet Thread 15 - Txiki Blinders

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domalino said:
The Laporte situation is really not one to be worried about.

He's got 4 years left on his deal, so Barca or Real can pay up or fuck off, and if he wants to play in the world cup he can't burn bridges and sulk.

Pau Torres is widely considered a lesser (but promising) player and he's on the market for €65m. So the asking price for Laporte is €75m minimum and then they if they scrape the money together, we instantly pick up Torres or Kounde's release clauses, or someone else if the club have another target.

Or they don't offer the money then Laporte has no right to complain. shouldn't have signed a new deal if he wanted to leave. Personally I don't think he'll kick up a fuss this summer at least.

If Barca want him but can't offer cash, we make them hurt with a player for player deal with someone we want, or they piss off.


Playing wise, he's our 3rd choice CB so it's not that disruptive. I actually think he's never been the same player since the knee injury, it cost him pace and he didn't have any to spare. Also Pep trying to keep him happy and rotate the squad really cost us our outstanding defensive record, because we lost the rock solid platform that we had when Dias and Stones played every game together.
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Excellent post, and sums up the situation perfectly. Nothing more to add.
 
blueparrot said:
Yes , not much benefit to a young keeper getting the game time Carson gets.
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Which is why he would be signed. Happy with limited game time, offers an experienced option allowing others time away to develop. Only issue is, he takes up a squad space. But that has been the case the last two years and doesn't seem to bother Pep.

If he could work out his differences with Joe Hart, he would be the perefect Carson type player to add instead, presuming Hart would settle for limited playing time. Offers everything Carson does, without taking up a squad space.

Looks like Carson will be here anyway, and if that's what Pep wants, good. People will still assume he just gets omitted from the player lists, who knows, third year in a row of wrongly claiming it, might actually happen once.
 
domalino said:
The Laporte situation is really not one to be worried about.

He's got 4 years left on his deal, so Barca or Real can pay up or fuck off, and if he wants to play in the world cup he can't burn bridges and sulk.

Pau Torres is widely considered a lesser (but promising) player and he's on the market for €65m. So the asking price for Laporte is €75m minimum and then they if they scrape the money together, we instantly pick up Torres or Kounde's release clauses, or someone else if the club have another target.

Or they don't offer the money then Laporte has no right to complain. shouldn't have signed a new deal if he wanted to leave. Personally I don't think he'll kick up a fuss this summer at least.

If Barca want him but can't offer cash, we make them hurt with a player for player deal with someone we want, or they piss off.


Playing wise, he's our 3rd choice CB so it's not that disruptive. I actually think he's never been the same player since the knee injury, it cost him pace and he didn't have any to spare. Also Pep trying to keep him happy and rotate the squad really cost us our outstanding defensive record, because we lost the rock solid platform that we had when Dias and Stones played every game together.
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Hi Domalino.
I'm not concerned about it, it plays out the way it does.
As you've stated clubs pay up, or do one.
I just have a feeling he'll be on the move.
 
BamberBridgeBlue said:
Whilst Pep is a proud Catalan and Barca fan, he left Barcelona for well documented reasons which haven’t changed. To suggest he is now agent Pep weakening us in cahoots with Txiki and Ferran whilst Khaldoon and Sheikh Mansour look on cutting frustrated figures is laughable.
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There’s some nut jobs on here mate, they aren’t worth the reply you give to them.
 
Could see Laporte leave on a loan, we don't really have much to lose as hes under contract for a while yet and Pep won't want him in Manchester if hes so desperate to leave. A loan with obligation to buy seems likely imo.
 
domalino said:
No he's not. Nike signed him up as a big brand ambassador when he moved to Barca and the Spanish press pretended they were subsidising his wages because they always do.

It's not mathematically possible for the Barcelona players to all earn what they allegedly do given the public record of their club wide salary costs in the annual finances.

We know Messi's was leaked, we know a few players like Griezmann and Countinho probably got €20m+ a year becasue they were record breaking transfers, but the quoted numbers just don't add up for people like Pique, De Jong, Lenglet.

I'm sure it's high, but I just don't believe it's €400k/week which is the widely reported number in the tabloids.
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I’ve heard there’s talk amongst agents that several top clubs have been paying off the books, using Bitcoin transactions. Don’t ask me where that money comes from, and city could easily be in the ones doing it, but the declared wages aren’t gospel.
 
Thaksinssoldier said:
I’ve heard there’s talk amongst agents that several top clubs have been paying off the books, using Bitcoin transactions. Don’t ask me where that money comes from, and city could easily be in the ones doing it, but the declared wages aren’t gospel.
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I don’t know much about Bitcoin but surely paying off balance sheet is illegal?
 
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