Lionel Messi | Joins Inter Miami (pg4111)

[kaz7]

You don't think we'd get him on a free? We could pay him £1m per week and it would be good value.

I don't think he will leave barca and step outside his comfort zone at this point in his career

 

[Bald fraud]

City Watch‏Verified account @City_Watch 6m6 minutes ago
Manchester City sources have categorically denied that they have any plans to sign Lionel Messi. [SPORT]

Spoil sports

 

[kaz7]

Karen if we get him I'll take you out to dinner!

Get your coat you've pulled

 

[The Doctor]

Get your coat you've pulled

It's a deal........

 

[Don Karleone]

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

I understand that perfectly,but we won't be shelling out that release clause this summer after our current spending. It won't happen even if it is viable with FFP.

Messi is a one-off financially. Revenue = Expenditure. We may have to get the cash off Abu Dhabi but it has no impact on any other spending we may commit to.

 

[Chippy_boy]

Well psg distorted the market completely. There is no benchmark to compare who is worth or not.

The point is not how good Messi is. It's how old he is.

It's potty, but nevertheless justifiable if you pay £200m for a player who you might have playing for you for 5 years and who you then sell for not much less than you paid. If PSG were to do that with Neymar and you work out the annualised cost, it's perhaps not that bad.

But if we paid say £200m for Messi, we'd get 2 good years out of him, 3 max. And then sell him at a huge loss.

It's a completely different proposition. As another poster said, 2 or 3 years ago yes no brainer. But now he's 30? No, not imo. Not unless we got him for a relatively low price.

 

[the plasterer]

Think we were pretty close a few years ago but no chance now

 

[greasedupdeafguy]

imagine if this happens haha

 

[lamby30676]

City have denied it, it was never on! Let's talk about realistic signings and not some fantasy that journos made up because they want clicks in there website.