Lionel Messi | Joins Inter Miami (pg4111)

[Churchlawtonblue]

what will be will be with regards Messi. regardless we still need a world class centre back.

 

[CenturyClub]

If he thought he was a free agent why would his old man fly over there to talk to bareclona to talk to Bart and the club ?? he would of just left, been on a plane to Manchester.

also the stories he wants a fee for the club he loves is strange , why would we waste 100 m if he thinks he’s a free man ???

All this doesn’t add up and reeks of getting a New deal / huge role at bareclona /etc ..

Also been tons and tons of money on him staying on betfair , 250k matches on the market and half of that in last few hours and majority in staying at Barcelona

Let me explain it to you...

He is still under contract until 2021. He is not a free agent where he can walk away for free without any dispute, he has "unilaterally terminated" the contract within the last year of his deal if we believe reports.

It is like having a phone contract, you have to ring up for the phone company to cancel the contract. Messi can't just activate the termination of his contract without any disputes and get on a plane to Manchester, he still has a contract until 2021 until both parties come to an agreement. Both parties need to sit down and come to an agreement and both parties interpret the contract differently.

If they can't come to an agreement, this sort of stuff is usually settled in court.

 

[Zin 'messiah' Zimmer]

When @Big Yaya Wilko 12 turns up, you know shit just got real....

 

[FCBarca]

It's a question of trust, isn't it. Imagine the sharks who were sniffing around him when he was a kid. No doubt they could use some help now but they mustn't have anticipated Bartomeu's reaction.

Tbh I suspect no matter when the break clause was triggered Bartomeu would have challenged it somehow.

No question but I do wonder if a proper agent would've been better prepared to deal with someone like Bartomeu

 

[Parisian]

Nice try but once again, a whitewash of the real story at PSG

Being forced to sell due to FFP does not exclude them from being a gulag because at the end of the day, the Qataris decide when they move players as I have already pointed out. No big club forces players to stay if they want out.

Barça officially a small club.

De Jong is on €200k weekly wages, performance bonuses beyond that will come from Nike. Qataris offering €380k weekly wages to De Ligt apart from all the other under the table bonuses like Neymar benefits from

Will De Ligt take the money and risk similar discontent like Neymar et al in the gulag or choose making history at Barcelona with his best mate as has been a Dutch tradition for decades? We’ll see but I am certain Barça will not outpay PSG, just as they did not with Frenkie

I'm happy de Ligt opted for Juventus. Otherwise, he would have been stucked in one of the two biggest gulags of recent times: PSG and Barça.

He really did dodge the bullet.

Meanwhile, de Jong did make history at Barcelona with that 8-2 scoreline. Great !

Pretty much only 3 clubs that could conceivably afford Neymar setting aside the unrealistic valuation of the player by Nasser but considering the Qataris have already effectively put him on the market, they have little leverage. Of course, exiting the Parisian gulag is no easy feat although Neymar & Co. will undoubtedly not rest quietly waiting for a transfer to materialize. Should be an interesting battle of wills but more so because it will become quite the distraction

True.
Exiting the Catalan gulag is no easy feat.
As we are seeing now, Leo Messi and Jorge Messi Sr will undoubtedly not rest quietly waiting for their legitimate plea to leave amicably to materialize. Should be an interesting battle of wills but more so because it will become the distraction.

The assumption is that the poster is from Paris but you have no idea where he's from. Great city but shite club that has been in existence for only a few decades and now with morally bankrupt Qatari owners. The story of players trying to exit that club are well documented and either ends with them being relegated to bench fodder or rewarded with bumper contracts. The irony is that even though my club has a shite board & aimless sporting direction atm, the moral highground is that we can always censure them or vote in a new one. Alternatively, PSG fans have to spin for their Qatari benefactors. It's genius from Raiola & De Ligt since the gulag could've only ever been a layover to a bigger club, hence the insistence on a tenable exit plan - even if it still was likely to be too steep for most to consider at 150M. Moreover, I am happy that this shite board won't entertain matching those sort of terms for the player.

As it happens, I like Basel, since they are a sister club to Barca. We are a small country but produce & export great football & footballers, maybe you're familiar with Shaqiri, Salah, Rakitic, Embolo, Lichtsteiner, Behrami, Degen, Djourou, Xhaka, Senderos & Fernandes among others

Will Messi be rewarded with a bumper contract or be relegated to bench fodder in your opinion ?

It was definitely a genius move from de Ligt and Raiola since the catalan gulag could have only ever been a layover to a bigger club. I would have been worried with a 150 M clause when they are not even trying to respect the spirit of the clause in the contract of (one of) their biggest legend(s).

 

[Zin 'messiah' Zimmer]

No question but I do wonder if a proper agent would've been better prepared to deal with someone like Bartomeu

only one man for the job

 

[damrider]

I'd fire the lawyers if I were messi lol, how are you going to go with all of this just to realize oh actually, we have no legal recourse here

 

[Stoned Rose]

I know this sounds mad but Argentinian Spanish sounds different to Spanish Spanish hence why this misunderstanding has happened. It's also lazy journalism but who is surprised by that.

What does Neville Neville think?

 

[Coatigan]

I’ll miss this thread when it’s all over. It’s been ages since I’ve had a thread where I click on and see 20 new pages and actually take the time to catch up.

I won't, it is exhausting.

Secretly though, i will .

 

[kaz7]

If he thought he was a free agent why would his old man fly over there to talk to bareclona to talk to Bart and the club ?? he would of just left, been on a plane to Manchester.

also the stories he wants a fee for the club he loves is strange , why would we waste 100 m if he thinks he’s a free man ???

All this doesn’t add up and reeks of getting a New deal / huge role at bareclona /etc ..

Also been tons and tons of money on him staying on betfair , 250k matches on the market and half of that in last few hours and majority in staying at Barcelona

Must be nice to be naive