Lionel Messi | Joins Inter Miami (pg4111)

[purplenose]

At which point do we say that this is getting ridiculous?

Extreme silliness in my view.

Messi wants to leave Barca, his mind seems to be made up.

He will play for someone else next season and given his connections with the manager and one of our players it would seem that he wants to play for us. Unless he changes his mind and remains at Barca he will probably be a City player unless a financial settlement with Barca should it be needed cannot be reached.

All this will be determined over the next few days and that is it. Nothing more nothing less. Wanting to know what time Messi snr crimped one out and where wont influence it in any way shape or form, or make it happen any quicker.

 

[cjn]

At which point do we say that this is getting ridiculous?

This coverage is legitimately hilarious.

 

[oakiecokie]

They are all coming out to play today.

Some of them would be better off playing with their Dingaling.

 

[slicky202]

Garlic's a bit risky isn't it?
I never eat it before a meeting!

timing is essential.Could eat it immediately before a meeting.If it’s going to get a few hours to start digesting though forget it

 

[bobmcfc]

Chased him down the street

 

[SWP's back]

Probably at home wondering why his dad went out with his brother for lunch, and he wasn't invited.

That was my thought. Poor fucker hadn’t seen his Dad for months and he flies in (obviously without telling him) and takes out the brother than hasn’t made him a multi millionaire.

 

[TheThirdDeano]

timing is essential.Could eat it immediately before a meeting.If it’s going to get a few hours to start digesting though forget it

hmm but then there's a chance it's still on his tounge/in his teeth.
Just seems unnecessarily risky to me

 

[Mid Wales blue]

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we’ll get him a bigger shack than that.

 

[Coatigan]

Chased him down the street

Not heard of social distancing?

 

[SWP's back]

I'm not paid to argue anything. My job is not a lawyer. Nor was I acting as a lawyer when I advised the club - I was a financial/corporate finance adviser. What are your qualifications in this space?

Nor did I say "80% of commercial revenue".

I will set out the exchange to which you are determined to misstate (for reasons best known to yourself):

M18CTID said:

I replied as follows:

"Why is comparing Barca's commercial revenue to Real or Bayern or United or City not relevant. If Messi is another league you would see Barca's commercial revenue significantly higher. It is not. These are important data points.

As for our reliance on Abu Dhabi partners, it is something like 80% from memory - the vast majority. There is no evidence that we have a queue of potential sponsors "lurking" just waiting for us to sign Messi. Anyway lets leave it there."

The conversation was about the queue of sponsors (presumably new ones). You can justifiably challenge my recollection of 80% of sponsors being AD sponsor partners - it may well be less today, it won't be materially so - but that was the point and no amount of you re-writing it changes it.

Key part of the post you replied to “We don’t just rely on Abu Dhabi based sponsors for our commercial income”

And we don’t. You can’t then decide to define it in such a disingenuous way just so you can claim 80% of it is AD based.

Anyway, you said you were done with this conversation and then you carried it on. I’m going to do you and everyone else a favour now and stop replying to you on this subject.