Lionel Messi | Joins Inter Miami (pg4111)

[OB1]

That article is horrible, utterly horrible. Guy is supposed to be a football finance expert yet doesn't seem to know the difference between structuring payments and amortisation. Also no discussion of the potential revenue boost from signing someone like Messi. Let's hope he's been horribly misquoted as that level of stupidity from someone who's regularly quoted in the media is inexcusable.

I think though the Messi effect is still overstated. We are saying that Messi will repay his transfer himself in revenue but this is near on impossible over the length of his contract.

Why do people only measure these things in shirt sales? There are commercial organisations who would pay handsomely to have their name associated with Messi and ADUG have done their homework on this deal. Rooney's reported £300k a week doesn't come out of the rags' pockets but probably half of it comes from third parties. And that's for a fat, foul-mouthed, granny-shagging, fag-smoking Scouse tosser, let alone the hottest property in world football.

The cash itself is not an issue for us, plus our revenue will take another significant jump from next year, with the opening of the new stand, the new Campus & Etihad sponsorship deals and the kicking in of the BT CL deal. We should be showing an FFP surplus of around £70m (€90m) each year from 2015/16 onwards, against an allowed €10m loss. That gives us an extra £75m a year to play with, regardless of anything else we bring in, before we need to think about FFP.

I don't believe that this deal, should it happen, will just be about what City can afford. If Mansour wants Messi at City - and it is hard to imagine that he does not - he can surely arrange for additional sponsorship deals for Messi that are tied to him being a City player so that Messi can increase his earnings by joining City without - quite legitimately - all the extra remuneration going through City's books e.g. Etihad ambassador...

The benefits to City - and Abu Dhabi - of signing Messi would go well beyond any immediate increase in revenue to City from the association. Having Messi at City would change how other potential transfer targets view City, for instance. Signing Messi could speed up City's attempts to win the Champions League; which in of itself would have short and long term benefits to City. Buying Messi could be a long term investment that extends well beyond any time he spends at MCFC.

If Messi leaves Barca, City have to make sure he comes to us.

 

[OB1]

Everything has played out exactly as I was told to expect.

Because of that, I can't doubt what might be about to happen.

I'll go as far as to say this, I will put money behind the bar at the next Blue Moon gathering should he leave Barcelona and NOT come to City.

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnzHtm1jhL4[/video]

I've got chills; they're multiplying.

 

[OB1]

I'd be really interested to hear a Barca fan's view on this...do we not have any resident posters on the board who are Barca fans?

Messi has been agitating for awhile...just wondering from a fans perspective, if they would take the hit with the promise that the club would reinvest the money once they are allowed to do transfer business again

Messi was booed by segments of the Nou Camp last season. Shows that even amongst there own supporter base there's some division, and understandably so. No matter how good one player is, it must be pretty shit when that player is basically hiring and firing managers, bringing down the board of directors, etc. Some Barca supporters were half jokingly saying "Messi's called elections this summer". As I said earlier he's also happily leveraged his ability and other clubs' interest in the past to get more money out of Barca. These are the kinds of things which if you do them once it's okay, but if you do them repeatedly supporters grow weary.

He's the Argentine James Milner,

 

[Champions2012!]

Lad's okay but can he do it on a wet Tuesday night at stoke?

 

[LoveCity]

Imagine the meltdown if FFP stops City and Chelsea from buying him but United stroll along and get him - because they could finance the deal with their revenue streams without a sweat. It'd expose FFP for what it really is but there would be nothing to be done about it.

 

[OB1]

Imagine the meltdown if FFP stops City and Chelsea from buying him but United stroll along and get him - because they could finance the deal with their revenue streams without a sweat. It'd expose FFP for what it really is but there would be nothing to be done about it.

There is, IMO, something to be done. Sign him to City and go to court over FFP.

 

[Bluemanc100]

Imagine the meltdown if FFP stops City and Chelsea from buying him but United stroll along and get him - because they could finance the deal with their revenue streams without a sweat. It'd expose FFP for what it really is but there would be nothing to be done about it.

I can't see Messi accepting mediocrity when he has the chance to wear a City shirt

 

[oakiecokie]

Imagine the meltdown if FFP stops City and Chelsea from buying him but United stroll along and get him - because they could finance the deal with their revenue streams without a sweat. It'd expose FFP for what it really is but there would be nothing to be done about it.

I think Kun would have to find a new best friend if that ever happened.

 

[Ray78]

Imagine the meltdown if FFP stops City and Chelsea from buying him but United stroll along and get him - because they could finance the deal with their revenue streams without a sweat. It'd expose FFP for what it really is but there would be nothing to be done about it.

If that did happen then they will have a major problem with Rooney. He will want parity in what wages Messi would likely to get paid imho.

 

[Chippy_boy]

If we sign him in the summer we will prob start next season with Kun, messi and bony as our strike force and I'd expect around 100 goals in all comps from them.

Getting just a tiny weeny bit ahead of ourselves I think. We haven't even signed Bony yet.