It's Quiet Thread 15 - Txiki Blinders

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Pablo1 said:
I've said it loads of times on here. What's the point in being a football supporter and not allow yourself to get giddy about the best of the best potentially signing.
Fuck me, you'd have to be dead inside not to get a little moist.
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At this stage, I really doubt that Messi will join us. Just my opinion.
 
Tricky_Trev said:
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Sounds like 10 year old .
Ffs if he took like minimum 10 % of sale cut from dick nose transfers , thats some money many of us will never get to smell in our lifetime and this **** acts like a kid just coz his client was dick at barca.
Million dollar pimp is ditto as $5 ho pimp .

Its business . Nothing personal. get over
 
pavelsrnicek said:
As well as Gundogan, both Ake and Zinchenko have played holding midfielder, albeit not for us. By next season Lavia will have had more time to develop and I could see him playing in the cups. So we may be able to cope with just Rodri as our defensive midfielder.
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not so much worried about DM, more wanting to maximise what we get out of Gundogan by letting him roam forward into the box. Grealish would get in the way.
 
Gundogan would go back to same status he was before this season, aka scapegoat imo if we push him back playing deeper with less roaming forward into the box where he can arrive with great instinct and finish his chances much better than Sterling, Jesus, Mahrez.

But that might also change if we get a more static striker like Haaland who would make it sure we dont play with false nine that much and we would concentrate more on crossing rather than someone like Gundo arriving at the box.
 
Pablo1 said:
I've said it loads of times on here. What's the point in being a football supporter and not allow yourself to get giddy about the best of the best potentially signing.
Fuck me, you'd have to be dead inside not to get a little moist.
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Too damn right - after having to put up with Ben Bloody Thatcher and Danny Fucking Wanker Mills as summer signings in the past - I will be allowing myself to get excited by the prospect of major summer signings... and the thought of all the Rags and Dippers going into serious meltdown.... nice.
 
I realise how absurd the statement I’m about to make is, but I’m actually not that fussed either way whether we get Messi or not.

It feels like the stars were aligned last summer, and it didn’t happen - which was frustrating at the time, but a deal like Messi always needed everything to fall in the right place and the right order for it to actually come off.

I’m actually more excited about the profile of players like Haaland and Mendes - kids with their whole career ahead of them, who could become our next legends - rather than a player who will always be a legend for his association to another team.

Perhaps it’s the knowledge two legends in Kun and Ferna are leaving, but it feels more important we secure our next generation than piss about with a player from the same age bracket as the two that are going.
 
tolmie's hairdoo said:
Perhaps, but Mendy would have one year less on his deal and his price point would be adjusted accordingly, I suspect.

The last thing we want is him walking away on a free transfer, but his big wages and a move this summer seems fanciful, unless we basically ask £10m.
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If we got 10million for Mendy this summer, Tikxi deserves a knighthood, deal of the century.
 
OB1 said:
At this stage, I really doubt that Messi will join us. Just my opinion.
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Please can you refrain from putting this sort of negative energy into this thread :)

Seriously though, I know people are looking at his performances on the pitch and connecting that with his happiness at the club. The fact that he's doing well this season and the team are playing well is fantastic, but it doesn't change Barcelona's financial position nor does it change the weight of things that have been put on the Messi family by the club. It's a little bit like Pep at the end. You get drowned by the politics of it all.

There's something else which has also stuck with me for a long time. Pep going to Barcelona to see Leo last summer and sitting down with him. That's not fleeting to me. Doesn't feel like a 'moment' that will pass. Feels more like Leo has decided that he wants to go and he wants to know if there's a place in Pep's team for him.

Now it may well be that Pep told him "don't leave Barcelona, don't come to England, you should stay here until you retire". But then IMO he could say that over the phone, he doesn't need to sit down with him. So if he was pitching to the player last summer and it didn't come off, I'm struggling to see why WE would decide this summer that we just don't want him.

I also think it's interesting Omar did an interview after the window closed saying that Leo, Cristiano, and Neymar are the only three players who generate the level of revenues which justifies the salaries they are paid - and that was directly in answer to the question about how City would marry their message of financial sustainability with attempting to sign him last summer.

Again, as I say with all my Messi related posts. This could all just be confirmation bias on my part (or wishful thinking however you want to categorise it!)
 
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