Lionel Messi | Joins Inter Miami (pg4111)

[blueinsa]

I think this thread may be getting a bit *too* serious.

Its a food source for the lurkers who this afternoon will start to leak some of the worries, some posters on here are expressing and pass them off as fact.

 

[oakiecokie]

Literally happening as we speak!

Wonder who got the first punch in ?

 

[slbsn]

Nah he considers it in the article

Here I'll screenshot part of it View attachment 1722

Some obvious issues - we never sold Sane for £55m - the down payment nearer £42m (and it is a one off - we have never sold a single player for that sort of FFP profit before). Messi couldn't be on a 5 year deal at 33 so you'd need to amortise over 3 not 5 years. The wages look wrong according to the leaked contract (https://www.spiegel.de/internationa...si-s-100-million-euro-contract-a-1187549.html) which says he gets €106m from Barca pa before bonuses. It is unlikely to be a free transfer it seems. We haven't sold anyone else yet so it is hard to conclude on that. And we need a top line striker imminently regardless of Messi - that is a signing required in the next 2 periods with a likely cost of £20m amortised plus £10m annual wages.

 

[Neville Kneville]

Would not call Xavi, Iniesta or Busquets plodders but I get your drift!

I would call Busquets one.

 

[kaz7]

Sky this morning, pep has been branded a thief for taking messi away from barca,on top of all their other shit this last week tells me the red shites and the rest of the nine have been on the phone lol

 

[blueinsa]

Jorge shits on us here and he is dead, fucking dead to me!

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

Keep up mate. I think that happened this morning, that’s when I first saw it mentioned.

Unbelievable how quickly you got some landed with that. I despair sometimes.....

 

[slbsn]

When you're feeling the need to distinguish between a partner and a kit manufacturer, things are getting a bit stupid.

The £65m per year Puma pay us goes into the commercial revenue pot. They are one of the people who will be paying extra per year to use Messi's image in their marketing.

Not at all. The post referred to sponsors ("But we don’t know how many potential sponsors are lurking in the background. We don’t just rely on Abu Dhabi based sponsors for our commercial income and I’m sure we’d be even less reliant on them if Messi signed.")

You can't add a second kit deal. We have one kit deal and it is already contracted. We can't rip up the Puma deal because we sign Messi unless there are clauses in there that adjust for it.

 

[nmc]

I didn’t see everything that was posted about this last night but I was surprised to see @projectriver getting involved. Make no mistake, his legal insight into our appeal at CAS was an invaluable source of info for many City fans and gave us some reassurance that we would prevail, and a lot of it panned out the way he thought it would.

However, I would respectfully disagree with him that City signing Messi would automatically see us back up before the beak and that this time UEFA won’t “fuck up” the investigation. Firstly, signing Messi doesn’t somehow mean that we fail FFP. If the club feel we can do the deal and stay within the parameters of FFP and we indeed do so while doing everything above board then we won’t be getting punished for breaching FFP because there will be nothing to punish us for. Secondly, while it could be claimed that UEFA fucked up parts of the last investigation, the fact is that once it got to CAS it turned out that they had little of note on us and what they did have was easily debunked so the investigation should never have gotten as far as it did anyway.

As you say, there will be a lot of noise from certain quarters if this goes through but they will need a lot more than noise to bring us down because I doubt that UEFA would have the stomach to go through all this again unless we had actually indeed breached FFP this time

And of course that suite of Champions league sponsors won’t be happy with the prospect of Messi being banned if he plays for City.

 

[Wanchope n me Dickov]

Just realised, I have a vested interest in Messi signing for us and wearing no10. My car reg is MCFC10. I bet the plate would be worth more than the car if this goes through.