Lionel Messi | Joins Inter Miami (pg4111)

[mindmyp's_n_q's]

Moyes will probably go get him this month.

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[mcfcphil]

Would paying in installments make such a deal more realistic under FFP? Say £40m per year.

It doesn't really matter. For the purposes of FFP transfer fees are amortised over the players contract. So in the books the money can be split over the life of the contract. Same as paying in instalments.

The way I see it. At a very simple level it'd mean 50 million euro (41.5 million pounds at today exchange rates) being taken out of our transfer budget per season for the following five seasons. However the value of the commercial deals which signing Messi would land City would go some way to redressing the balance.

City have been planning for this. There's a reason we let Tevez and Balotelli go and want Dzeko off the wage bill too. The contracts that the incoming players are on leave a hell of a lot of room to be able to absorb Messi's wages without making our overall bill spike hugely from where it was 12 months ago.

I think signing Messi would have the kind of long term impact on the club that even Platini wouldn't be able to argue against. The guy is in my opinion the best player ever. The money may well be historic, but there's a pretty compelling argument to say he's worth it.

The question is does he want to come to City. You look around and again you'd think someone had been planning a club to make Messi feel at home. Everywhere he looks there's people he grew up with not only in Barcelona but in Argentina too.

I'm loving the fact we're already at the stage where we're discussing the intricacies of payment method!

 

[andrewmswift]

as exciting as this would be, couldn't we use the money better? worldclass CM, worldclass CB, RB and LB to give Zaba and Aleks competition, LW, another creative type ala silva ... we could probably get all that for under Messi's clause, no?

 

[foetus]

Just got my new Messi tattoo...he is definitely coming yeah?

 

[mcfcphil]

as exciting as this would be, couldn't we use the money better? worldclass CM, worldclass CB, RB and LB to give Zaba and Aleks competition, LW, another creative type ala silva ... we could probably get all that for under Messi's clause, no?

Live a little!

 

[bluemoondays]

as exciting as this would be, couldn't we use the money better? worldclass CM, worldclass CB, RB and LB to give Zaba and Aleks competition, LW, another creative type ala silva ... we could probably get all that for under Messi's clause, no?

Live a little!

We probably don't have room in the squad for all those players without letting a load go, plus, unless we bought in English talent we'd be f'd on the home-grown quotas and I can't think of any world class CM, LB, RB, LW and Atk Mid who are English - apart from Phil Jones who can play in all of those positions of course!

Adding Messi would make our forward line-up insane, especially as he is used to being played either right wing/inside forward as well as central AM and striker for Barca. I can dream of the midfield/forward lineup below but it won't happen (happy to be proven wrong!)

.............Negredo..........................
.............................Aguero..............
Silva.......................................Messi
.............Yaya.......Fernadinho........

 

[gloryhunter007]

as exciting as this would be, couldn't we use the money better? worldclass CM, worldclass CB, RB and LB to give Zaba and Aleks competition, LW, another creative type ala silva ... we could probably get all that for under Messi's clause, no?

Live a little!

We probably don't have room in the squad for all those players without letting a load go, plus, unless we bought in English talent we'd be f'd on the home-grown quotas and I can't think of any world class CM, LB, RB, LW and Atk Mid who are English - apart from Phil Jones who can play in all of those positions of course!

Adding Messi would make our forward line-up insane, especially as he is used to being played either right wing/inside forward as well as central AM and striker for Barca. I can dream of the midfield/forward lineup below but it won't happen (happy to be proven wrong!)

.............Negredo..........................
.............................Aguero..............
Silva.......................................Messi
.............Yaya.......Fernadinho........

interesting to see what people think we'd do if we did get him. i'd go 4-3-3

...............messi..............
aguero.................jesus/nasri
............,....silva.............
....yaya...................dinho....

 

[NQCitizen]

as exciting as this would be, couldn't we use the money better? worldclass CM, worldclass CB, RB and LB to give Zaba and Aleks competition, LW, another creative type ala silva ... we could probably get all that for under Messi's clause, no?

Live a little!

We probably don't have room in the squad for all those players without letting a load go, plus, unless we bought in English talent we'd be f'd on the home-grown quotas and I can't think of any world class CM, LB, RB, LW and Atk Mid who are English - apart from Phil Jones who can play in all of those positions of course!

Adding Messi would make our forward line-up insane, especially as he is used to being played either right wing/inside forward as well as central AM and striker for Barca. I can dream of the midfield/forward lineup below but it won't happen (happy to be proven wrong!)

.............Negredo..........................
.............................Aguero..............
Silva.......................................Messi
.............Yaya.......Fernadinho........

I would be beyond amazed if Messi was played anywhere other than centrally, just to accommodate Negredo

Aguero messi navas
........Silva Nasri
.....Fernandinho

Imagine that!

More likely:
.......Aguero Messi
Nasri...................Silva
.........Ferna...Yaya........

 

[cmdub]

I have no doubt this will become bigger and longer than the Isco thread, which I still haven't recovered from.

In fact, I'm still seeing a Psychologist because of that thread.

that thread was a mess for about a week straight leading up to him signing there, i cant even comprehend what it would be like if we got close for messi. bm would need to add another server at least..

 

[alky313]

Messi-Aguero
Jovetic-Negredo.

With over 60 games played each player could easily be rotated to make 35-40 appearances.