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Agreed, it could be quite a window if we sign Messi after getting Scott Carson back also.
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Agreed, it could be quite a window if we sign Messi after getting Scott Carson back also.
It does not make sense from a footballing point of view to buy a player at the end of his career whose game is deteriorating. He is 33, and he is not as good now as you think he is. This would become even more obvious in the Premier League where the football is played at a higher intensity than La Liga (see City v Real Madrid where Jesus, Foden and Sterling ran Real Madrid ragged in a way no Spanish club could have done).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
I appreciate it is exciting to be linked to the world's greatest player but this is a sentimental thread that looks to Messi's past, and all the incredible feats he's done in the past, and not his future which will be one of a slowing player who can no longer burst past defenders.
Watching Messi at 34 would be sad. I don't want to do it other than maybe sticking 8 past his side like Bayern Munich just did.
In Bernardo's shirt and fast forward to age 34 whilst Bernardo will be in his prime playing elsewhere.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)
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If we got Messi - I know it’s an IF but do people think he’d ever be good enough to dislodge Henderson, Pogba or Lingard from Garth Crooks team of the week ?
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Didn’t Khaldoon hint at not buying solely players for the future but players for the now in his speech?? Maybe this is who he meant...
Sure we'd have some good days at the Etihad battering some weak sides and seeing Messi score a hatr-trick as he still does with barcelona but can you imagine going to Anfield with Messi in the side. It would be a humiliation.
Think back to Liverpool v Barcelona two seasons ago. They destroyed that side, and Anfield baited him as he trudged off the pitch.
Think back to Liverpool v Barcelona two seasons ago. They destroyed that side, and Anfield baited him as he trudged off the pitch.
Sure we'd have some good days at the Etihad battering some weak sides and seeing Messi score a hatr-trick as he still does with barcelona but can you imagine going to Anfield with Messi in the side. It would be a humiliation.
Think back to Liverpool v Barcelona two seasons ago. They destroyed that side, and Anfield baited him as he trudged off the pitch.
Well, if you fully recall the match you'd know Leo set up a number of scoring chances that his teammates failed to convert at Anfield
KoubilalyDidn’t Khaldoon hint at not buying solely players for the future but players for the now in his speech?? Maybe this is who he meant...
If we got Messi - I know it’s an IF but do people think he’d ever be good enough to dislodge Henderson, Pogba or Lingard from Garth Crooks team of the week ?
I remember a while back when shrek was at the rags,he was injured and guess who was the star man in Garth's team of the week?
Amazing isn't it,don't play and still star man.
Sure we'd have some good days at the Etihad battering some weak sides and seeing Messi score a hatr-trick as he still does with barcelona but can you imagine going to Anfield with Messi in the side. It would be a humiliation.
Just a normal trip to Anfield then. Might as well give that little Argentinian a go and see what happens.
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