Messi.....

[Prestwich_Blue]

No. Save the money and buy 2/3 incredible players with it.
I admire him, but i'd rather challenge our players to be world superstars than spend £200m on just one.
Its that simple for me.

How many times does this need to be said. Buying Messi is a zero-sum transfer. In other words it pays for itself. The club have run the numbers and the deals were in place when this was first mooted.

 

[Tugay One Cup]

I'd rather use the money to try and sign Verratti or Dybala but that's just me.

 

[richards30]

How many times does this need to be said. Buying Messi is a zero-sum transfer. In other words it pays for itself. The club have run the numbers and the deals were in place when this was first mooted.

Can't see how anyone would turn him down to be honest mate! I assume this one is most certainly a now or never transfer? I was last year that the club felt he was getting past the top marketability stage to make the transfer viable? Now obviously with pep at the helm officially he may have asked if it was possible?

 

[cookster]

Still has 4-6 years at the top, no brainer if we can get it over the line.

 

[abu13]

I wonder if this has anything to do with the kit deal as well?

If there was a realistic chance that hecould sigh for us then the commercial side of the club would explode, if we are already unhappy with the Nike deal then it will only get worse should he sign.

 

[Neville Kneville]

Really?

As a season ticket holder I would love to watch arguably the best player in the history of football playing for us.

Who wouldn't want to watch that? He'd probably be our best player until he was 35. He'll be an even better version of Silva when his pace has gone even.

You literally just said you don't want Messi because he doesn't work hard and does his own thing. Brilliant!

Put it this way, he's x10's the player De Bruyne is.

No he isn't.

Nobody is nor ever will be.

 

[The Silver Surfer]

How many times does this need to be said. Buying Messi is a zero-sum transfer. In other words it pays for itself. The club have run the numbers and the deals were in place when this was first mooted.

I'm not doubting you've heard someone at the club tell you that officially, but it begs the question why has no other club have "run the numbers" and come up with the same idea.

I can actually grasp the fact that £50m per year extra income generated on a four year contract might be feasible, but you'd then be in a situation where there becomes a second tier of the transfer fee i.e. £200m (cos it pays for itself) and another £20m cos Utd/Chelsea etc might start sniffing and indeed might offer £200m + £30m and so on.

 

[richards30]

I'm not doubting you've heard someone at the club tell you that officially, but it begs the question why has no other club have "run the numbers" and come up with the same idea.

I can actually grasp the fact that £50m per year extra income generated on a four year contract might be feasible, but you'd then be in a situation where there becomes a second tier of the transfer fee i.e. £200m (cos it pays for itself) and another £20m cos Utd/Chelsea etc might start sniffing and indeed might offer £200m + £30m and so on.

how many clubs would messi want to join though?? we would only have a sniff due to pep? he knows that pep will build something special at city and with the added advantage of Sergio, ota, zabba etc all here as well?

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

how many clubs would messi want to join though?? we would only have a sniff due to pep? he knows that pep will build something special at city and with the added advantage of Sergio, ota, zabba etc all here as well?

Doesn't work terribly well for Argentina though...

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

I'm not doubting you've heard someone at the club tell you that officially, but it begs the question why has no other club have "run the numbers" and come up with the same idea.

I can actually grasp the fact that £50m per year extra income generated on a four year contract might be feasible, but you'd then be in a situation where there becomes a second tier of the transfer fee i.e. £200m (cos it pays for itself) and another £20m cos Utd/Chelsea etc might start sniffing and indeed might offer £200m + £30m and so on.

How many clubs could afford to pay out that cash though? And, as has been pointed out, how many clubs would he want to go to?