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Lionel Messi | Joins Inter Miami (pg4111)
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Don’t care even at 33 he’s the best and anyone doubting signing him really needs to have a chat with themselves
Its madness. Not to mention the off the pitch benefits which would last long after Messi's spell. if he wanted to leave and the price was around £100m, no brainer.
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just watching that video reminded me of how absurdly better he is at playing football than anyone else. I have seen him live just the once at the start of his Senior career In 2005 whilst on a stag weekend in Barca. Ronaldinho was who we went to see.. we all came away knowing we had seen someone extremely special and he didn’t look like bugs bunny. He is the most naturally gifted player of all time imo. Only Maradona is even close.. and even he probably wasn’t quite as good and had more baggage than Terminal 4 At Heathrow.
It would go against everything our owners have built and against the general structure of how the club is currently run but provided he avoided injury we would get 18-24 months or jaw dropping moments.
Warning this is a long post but I think it covers a lot of topic and i've tried to look at it from a few aspects
If the club are seriously looking at the funds then I think this might be a fun few weeks, its been said before that if Messi was available then the funds would be there for the contracts.
The club could pull off the most talked about transfer in history (after Scott Carson) and we could possibly get the most well known player of a generation, the club would be automatically be the most talked about club and everyone in the league / Europe / the world would be wanting to see what happens
On the pitch you could say he's had his worst goal scoring season, at only...
25 Goals in the league (more than any of our squad last season)
2 Goals in Copa Del Ray (Equal to our highest scorer in the FA Cup)
3 goals in Europe (Would've been our 3rd highest scorer)
and 1 in the Spanish Super Cup
He also scored 4 in 4 for Argentina in friendlies
Assists wise Messi got 21 assists in the league, (more than KDB)
He also got another 3 in the Champions League (would've been joint second highest)
Edited to Include Assists and update goals
35 Goals Scored in total in a poor season with a declining team is still equal to Sterling (our highest goal scorer) best season, so to have someone who has scored 630+ goals get on to even half of the chances we create would still be a very high scoring player, add this with his assists and he still had 59 Goals/Assists this season, I think whilst Messi is coming down from the incredible plateau he has been at then even him having a decline he is still statistically the best player in the world, that is just on the pitch all of the players would jump at the chance to train with him, for Phil Foden and the other youngsters to train with him every day would be worth it.
I'd expect every single sponsorship deal the club has to be renegotiated and wouldn't be surprised if Puma revised their deal just to try get him in a kit and the Etihad deal could again go up a large chunk, When that Person joined Juve (the only deal which would be close to this) Jeep valued the exposure he gave them just by wearing a kit at $58.3 million a season and increased their deal with the club from 17 million euros to 42 million per season. Adidas renewed their contract after 6 months of him being there doubling the previous payments from 23.25 million euros to 51 million per annum ( an interesting read here about the numbers behind that deal https://www.goal.com/en/news/the-ro...ne-for-the-juventus/y2io1bd9hyv0100m35astqwxz )
We also live in a world where who knows what is going to happen with fans in the stadium, so we all don't want the club to put prices up so if Messi coming helps get an extra 10 sponsors and an extra £100m of revenue then good, Quality coupled with popularity enables a club to increase its revenue, which would be the biggest thing, that exposure, we have to admit we live in a world of influencers and social media, so clubs would look at how that is being used and what players are the biggest influence, looking at the Deloitte money league from this year our most "influential" player on social media... Gabriel Jesus 14.1m, look at Messi as of right now that is 164.3m followers, that is more individual accounts than the entire clubs social media outlets combined, in turn we're getting the kids wanting City kits with Messi on them, wanting to watch Man City, to companies wanting to be associated with the club and City that then taking City from the 5th or 6th Biggest revenue in world football to 4th / 3rd and only getting bigger.
TL:DR In the eyes of the club this could be a deal too good to miss, we've tried for him at least twice before, he doesn't want more money (he's worth £300m+) he wants a sporting project, he's told Pep he wants to work with him again, (https://theathletic.co.uk/1588411/2020/02/06/manchester-city-messi-barcelona-transfer/)
Plus this would be the biggest and best way to boil some piss and watch the press scramble over themselves
If the club are seriously looking at the funds then I think this might be a fun few weeks, its been said before that if Messi was available then the funds would be there for the contracts.
The club could pull off the most talked about transfer in history (after Scott Carson) and we could possibly get the most well known player of a generation, the club would be automatically be the most talked about club and everyone in the league / Europe / the world would be wanting to see what happens
On the pitch you could say he's had his worst goal scoring season, at only...
25 Goals in the league (more than any of our squad last season)
2 Goals in Copa Del Ray (Equal to our highest scorer in the FA Cup)
3 goals in Europe (Would've been our 3rd highest scorer)
and 1 in the Spanish Super Cup
He also scored 4 in 4 for Argentina in friendlies
Assists wise Messi got 21 assists in the league, (more than KDB)
He also got another 3 in the Champions League (would've been joint second highest)
Edited to Include Assists and update goals
35 Goals Scored in total in a poor season with a declining team is still equal to Sterling (our highest goal scorer) best season, so to have someone who has scored 630+ goals get on to even half of the chances we create would still be a very high scoring player, add this with his assists and he still had 59 Goals/Assists this season, I think whilst Messi is coming down from the incredible plateau he has been at then even him having a decline he is still statistically the best player in the world, that is just on the pitch all of the players would jump at the chance to train with him, for Phil Foden and the other youngsters to train with him every day would be worth it.
I'd expect every single sponsorship deal the club has to be renegotiated and wouldn't be surprised if Puma revised their deal just to try get him in a kit and the Etihad deal could again go up a large chunk, When that Person joined Juve (the only deal which would be close to this) Jeep valued the exposure he gave them just by wearing a kit at $58.3 million a season and increased their deal with the club from 17 million euros to 42 million per season. Adidas renewed their contract after 6 months of him being there doubling the previous payments from 23.25 million euros to 51 million per annum ( an interesting read here about the numbers behind that deal https://www.goal.com/en/news/the-ro...ne-for-the-juventus/y2io1bd9hyv0100m35astqwxz )
We also live in a world where who knows what is going to happen with fans in the stadium, so we all don't want the club to put prices up so if Messi coming helps get an extra 10 sponsors and an extra £100m of revenue then good, Quality coupled with popularity enables a club to increase its revenue, which would be the biggest thing, that exposure, we have to admit we live in a world of influencers and social media, so clubs would look at how that is being used and what players are the biggest influence, looking at the Deloitte money league from this year our most "influential" player on social media... Gabriel Jesus 14.1m, look at Messi as of right now that is 164.3m followers, that is more individual accounts than the entire clubs social media outlets combined, in turn we're getting the kids wanting City kits with Messi on them, wanting to watch Man City, to companies wanting to be associated with the club and City that then taking City from the 5th or 6th Biggest revenue in world football to 4th / 3rd and only getting bigger.
TL:DR In the eyes of the club this could be a deal too good to miss, we've tried for him at least twice before, he doesn't want more money (he's worth £300m+) he wants a sporting project, he's told Pep he wants to work with him again, (https://theathletic.co.uk/1588411/2020/02/06/manchester-city-messi-barcelona-transfer/)
Plus this would be the biggest and best way to boil some piss and watch the press scramble over themselves
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Messi is far more resilient than a lot of commenters give him credit for and even 'in decline' shits over most players. Also the board will see this as a branding and exposure wet dream. 2 years at 700k a week, go for it.
(c'mon, think of it, Messi in a City shirt)
(c'mon, think of it, Messi in a City shirt)
Fordyboy46
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I'd be amazed if Barca didn't want one of our players in exchange plus cash, Bernardo as well as Garcia could be gone.
nmc
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It’s a bit of an aside but it’ll be one in the eye for Nike if we get Messi - they fucked us off in favour of Spurs and Liverpool - and suddenly the whole league will be only interested in Messi and he’d be wearing Puma.
Warning this is a long post but I think it covers a lot of topic and i've tried to look at it from a few aspects
If the club are seriously looking at the funds then I think this might be a fun few weeks, its been said before that if Messi was available then the funds would be there for the contracts.
The club could pull off the most talked about transfer in history (after Scott Carson) and we could possibly get the most well known player of a generation, the club would be automatically be the most talked about club and everyone in the league / Europe / the world would be wanting to see what happens
On the pitch you could say he's had his worst goal scoring season, at only...
25 Goals in the league (more than any of our squad last season
2 Goals in Copa Del Ray (Equal to our highest scorer in the FA Cup)
3 goals in Europe (Would've been our 3rd highest scorer)
and 1 in the Spanish Super Cup
31 Goals in total in a poor season with a declining team is still equal to Sterling (our highest goal scorer) best season, so to have someone who has scored 630+ goals get on to even half of the chances we create would still be a very high scoring player, add that just the players having a chance to train with him, for Phil Foden and the other youngsters to train with him every day would be worth it.
I'd expect every single sponsorship deal the club has to be renegotiated and wouldn't be surprised if Puma revised their deal just to try get him in a kit and the Etihad deal could again go up a large chunk, When that Person joined Juve (the only deal which would be close to this) Jeep valued the exposure he gave them just by wearing a kit at $58.3 million a season and increased their deal with the club from 17 million euros to 42 million per season. Adidas renewed their contract after 6 months of him being there doubling the previous payments from 23.25 million euros to 51 million per annum ( an interesting read here about the numbers behind that deal https://www.goal.com/en/news/the-ro...ne-for-the-juventus/y2io1bd9hyv0100m35astqwxz )
We also live in a world where who knows what is going to happen with fans in the stadium, so we all don't want the club to put prices up so if Messi coming helps get an extra 10 sponsors and an extra £100m of revenue then good, Quality coupled with popularity enables a club to increase its revenue, which would be the biggest thing, that exposure, we have to admit we live in a world of influencers and social media, so clubs would look at how that is being used and what players are the biggest influence, looking at the Deloitte money league from this year our most "influential" player on social media... Gabriel Jesus 14.1m, look at Messi as of right now that is 164.3m followers, that is more individual accounts than the entire clubs social media outlets combined, in turn we're getting the kids wanting City kits with Messi on them, wanting to watch Man City, to companies wanting to be associated with the club and City that then taking City from the 5th or 6th Biggest revenue in world football to 4th / 3rd and only getting bigger.
TL:DR In the eyes of the club this could be a deal too good to miss, we've tried for him at least twice before, he doesn't want more money (he's worth £300m+) he wants a sporting project, he's told Pep he wants to work with him again, (https://theathletic.co.uk/1588411/2020/02/06/manchester-city-messi-barcelona-transfer/)
Plus this would be the biggest and best way to boil some piss and watch the press scramble over themselves
Only thing you forgot is his assists. Pissed on even Kev for assists last season. So he ended up directly involved in 50 odd goals.
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