Lionel Messi | Joins Inter Miami (pg4111)

[Damien10]

I will say it again. If people think Pep wouldn't want Messi to join him, they are deluded. Pep adores Messi, Pep will want him.

The real story is, if Pep isn't interested, it simply means Pep knows something else...

 

[Keeper!]

Grealish is nowhere near Messi in marketing capacity in any age group.

So young girls have Lionel Messi on their bedroom walls? and not Grealish?>

 

[bluemoon32]

We spend years kissing his arse and tonguing his ring piece and when it finally looks like he's available ..........we're skint.
Typical City haha

 

[BillyShears]

It absolutely beggars belief for anybody to believe that Man City would not be in for Messi and I don't care what any journalist or ITK says about this. We are absolutely in for him. There's no possible way that the greatest and most marketable player in history comes up and we ignore him. No chance at all.

Haha. Love you mate. I can’t quite believe that NOW he’s free. After everything we’ve done to try and get him previously. I also think it’s a bit harsh for Pep to be so down on him for not moving last summer. Barto was always going to make it hard.

 

[blue cigar]

I remember sitting my little lad on my knee and telling him Messi might be signing for City, his little face lit up... he's 26 years old now

 

[BlueRain]

It will be Messi. Messi is a singularity, he isn't bound by the regular laws of policy like any one else. If somebody thinks that we're going to turn down Lionel Messi in order to sign Harry Kane, I just don't know what to tell you. We've been chasing Messi for ten years. We've put three deals together for him. And now he's on the market we're acting like a spurned lover rather than a professional football club? I absolutely don't buy it.

Pretty much agree with all of this apart from the Messi OR Kane bit... It's not ridiculous to think that it could be BOTH

Whoever signs Messi will need to leverage some big commercial deals in order to pay all or most of Messi's wages - I am sure both us and PSG (and maybe others) have been looking into this very carefully and if we have run the numbers and can make it work then there is no reason why it should impact the Kane deal at all...

 

[simon23]

We have just given Grealish a big contract, big extensions for Dias, Ederson, KDB and Foden.

We want Kane, again big contract.

Can even our wealth cover Lionel for a couple of season? I have my doubts.

And please don't use the Messi generates his own money comment, I am not having that in terms of MCFC.

We have just signed Grealish, the new poster boy of the Premier league and if he is successful with us, probably the new poster boy of world football. He is now our marketing dream, not a 34 yr old fella, the kids want Jack not old man Lionel. And the kids are what the marketing man wants.

He does generate his own money.
To become the poster boy for football you have to be elite...Grealish isnt yet.
Every kid in the world that likes football know Messi around the world......you cannot say the same for Grealish.
And in terms of ability on the pitch........they are at completely different levels

 

[Paulmcfc2703]

Not yet.....if he is successful with us, I would say he has a very decent chance of beating the little fella.

Messi and Ronaldo the football poster boys for a generation are fading, new heroes will be sought and Grealish is one who could be very much at the top of the pile.

Probably the most deluded post I have ever seen. Grealish will never surpass Messi's marketability.

 

[Damocles]

Not yet.....if he is successful with us, I would say he has a very decent chance of beating the little fella.

Messi and Ronaldo the football poster boys for a generation are fading, new heroes will be sought and Grealish is one who could be very much at the top of the pile.

Just to give you an idea. You said that one day, if managed correctly, Grealish could perhaps even be as big as Beckham?

Messi is already bigger than Beckham ever was.

 

[simon23]

Messi at 34 new league, new culture, massive gamble and a hugely expensive one even for a wealthy club.

100m on wages for kane means we can cover his wages with that money....no purchase fee