It's Quiet Thread 15 - Txiki Blinders

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loio said:



My interpretation of this is that they wont be breaking the PL transfer record this summer.. and in a pandemic and all. Khaldoon has been very clear in every interview he does that he does not want to break these individual records, (speculation: To be seen as that publicly, and for the teams cohesion in the dressing room as well) and Pep has often echoed these sentiments during the seasons as well.


That means that any transfer this summer would have to get under the Pogba 89m£/105m€ fee to Juve, and I just cant see Haaland getting anyway near that, especially when his clause next summer is well below that as well.. So I conclude from that that Lautaro Martinez and Joao Felix etc among others still is in the running, if any at all this summer.
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Joao Felix would likely cost more due to his contract legnth at Atleti
 
Maybe we are simply prepared to wait until next summer. Perhaps discussions with alf have been to that effect.
 
Mind games. Basically telling Haarland if you want to come then reel your fucking agent in. We will pay what we can afford. If it's not enough then we will move on. I have total trust in the club and as much as I'd like to see us get him I won't worry if we don't. I think the best thing we can do to persuade him to come is by battering them in the upcoming fixtures.
 
We're a club that will steadfastly refuse to go a penny over our valuation for a player. We missed out on Van Dijk because of it. I don't know how much our valuation of Haaland is but I'll be very surprised if there's not a club out there who will pay the extra £10-15m that we won't be willing to. That's why I don't see us getting him, and why we very rarely go in for players who are wanted by other big clubs.
 
Gumzy97 said:
Yea seems like theres a wonderkid every year , Joao Felix , Jovic , Andre Silva , Haaland then teams panic and grab them and they dont turn out to be what they thought they bought.
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I mean Haaland is nothing like the other three you mentioned- particularly Joao Felix, who was bought because of what he might become rather than what he already was (because Atletico are idiots). Haaland is already a top five striker in the world and he's twenty. Jovic and Silva both had decent goalscoring seasons but nobody took them seriously as future Ballon d'Or candidates.

Putting Haaland in the same category as Jovic is miles off the mark. It's like comparing Ronaldo to Pedro Neto.
 
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In all fairness, Pep said it was "impossible" to sign a striker. Nobody needed him to say that, nobody expected him to say that. No other manager said that. But Pep's not an idiot so we have to assume that he had some ulterior motive and that openly declaring we can't afford the best young forward since Messi is probably part of a plan.
 
MarsLlama said:
In all fairness, Pep said it was "impossible" to sign a striker. Nobody needed him to say that, nobody expected him to say that. No other manager said that. But Pep's not an idiot so we have to assume that he had some ulterior motive and that openly declaring we can't afford the best young forward since Messi is probably part of a plan.
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Yes, a plan not to buy him.
 
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