Lionel Messi | Joins Inter Miami (pg4111)

[not my fault!]

It’s based on his basic wages so about €52m

Not sure on the ins and outs of doing this though and pretty sure I’ve read it couldn’t be done in time for the window closing hence looking to negotiate instead

that’s what I thought to be honest, worst case though even €116m isn’t a huge sum for what he’d generate the club.

 

[bugsyblue]

If we're open to paying a transfer, Barca will simply ask something obscene from us. They do not want Messi to leave under any condition. I am all for paying him the enormous wages he will command, a sign on fee etc, but not the ridiculous amount that'll be attempted to be extorted.

If he's put in his request to move for free then I'd say he's already had his lawyers go over it in detail, and conclude that he can get away with it legally.

Having read the athletic article and heard from those lawyers it doesn’t sound like he has a legal leg to stand on!

 

[not my fault!]

Tolm with a big update on other thread

that’s a bold update

 

[PJM1891]

Tolm with a big update on other thread

We really only should have one thread with all this Messi stuff, impossible to keep up.

 

[Akpowell]

Based on nothing but my own gut instinct, anyone else enjoying all this Messi stuff but feel that ultimately, Messi will leave us with egg on our faces and stay at Barcelona ?
I certainly think if he leaves Barcelona then he'll come to City but this nagging doubt that he'll end up staying at Barcelona won't leave me.
Fcuk it, like everyone else, i have no real idea what's happening haha

I think most of us feel that way.
Icant see him in a City shirt

 

[Falz]

We really only should have one thread with all this Messi stuff, impossible to keep up.

Yeah. I thought they'd already been merged?

 

[SouthStandStander]

We really only should have one thread with all this Messi stuff, impossible to keep up.

It's not really impossible is it?. Just have both threads open.

 

[Akpowell]

Based on nothing but my own gut instinct, anyone else enjoying all this Messi stuff but feel that ultimately, Messi will leave us with egg on our faces and stay at Barcelona ?
I certainly think if he leaves Barcelona then he'll come to City but this nagging doubt that he'll end up staying at Barcelona won't leave me.
Fcuk it, like everyone else, i have no real idea what's happening haha

I think most of us feel that way. tbh i
cant see him in a City shirt

 

[kippaxwarrior]

not gonna be plain sailing this one, will be plenty more conflicting reports over the next few weeks. think we all just need to stay calm, cross our fingers and and wait for it all to unfold.

Doubt it will take weeks. IF he wants to join us im pretty certain we will be already talking to Barcelona and this could happen in days. Apparently the Neymar deal only took 12 days from the initial query to him signing for PSG

 

[pavelsrnicek]

I might suggest that any article on the legality of Messi exercising his release clause should be ignored unless the author has either read Messi’s contract or is an expert in Spanish contract law.

The half assed spoofing and guess work that masqueraded as serious journalism in relation to CAS and UEFA shows exactly how well versed football journalists are in legal matters. In short they haven’t a clue.