Messi.....

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There is no doubt in my mind that Messi has been the best player on the planet for the last 7 or 8 years.I've dreamed of him coming to City but the harsh facts are that he's now nearly 30 and his best years are behind him. To blow £120mil on him would be a terrible investment now.

Time to be pragmatic rather than romantic and spend that money buying the best keeper we can find along with two top quality full-backs.

I can't believe I'm saying I don't want Messi!!
 
malg said:
Fucking weird that. I was told the same transfer fee, but his starting wage would be £350,000 a week, but with a massive deal on his image rights (could be worth up to £500,000 a week). If it goes through it would be massive.....
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Are you wumming or being serious?
 
malg said:
Fucking weird that. I was told the same transfer fee, but his starting wage would be £350,000 a week, but with a massive deal on his image rights (could be worth up to £500,000 a week). If it goes through it would be massive.....
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Wait... the word massive twice... ok. Fucking wum :-)
 
kas_tippler said:
£120 million deal c/w £800k wages. This is what I was told, not getting into any arguments on here as I've learnt not too. We shall see come January.
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even if it was to happen, it wouldn't be in jan, why would barca and messi mess up their champions league for the season, in that respect, it just makes no reasonable sense
 
Paul_Powers_Tash said:
There is no doubt in my mind that Messi has been the best player on the planet for the last 7 or 8 years.I've dreamed of him coming to City but the harsh facts are that he's now nearly 30 and his best years are behind him. To blow £120mil on him would be a terrible investment now.

Time to be pragmatic rather than romantic and spend that money buying the best keeper we can find along with two top quality full-backs.

I can't believe I'm saying I don't want Messi!!
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Exactly how I feel about it
 
If he is coming they better hurry up and build that second tier on the north stand be like gold dust the season tickets
 
Ive got no doubt whatsoever that a bid from us in the form of "If you want to sell then just name your price" is on the table and has been for a while but i doubt they will ever make that phone call.
 
Never in January and the markets changed, 120 million isn't a lot for Messi even if he is almost 30. Its Messi.
 
blueinsa said:
Ive got no doubt whatsoever that a bid from us in the form of "If you want to sell then just name your price" is on the table and has been for a while but i doubt they will ever make that phone call.
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The way Spanish contracts work, the player can put up the amount of the buy-out clause at any time and he's released from his contract. You can negotiate a lower fee but there's legal and tax issues around doing that. His buy-out clause is €250m so if he wants to come, he gives Barca that money and he's out. But the issue here is that he's in the last 2 years of this contract so the Webster ruling applies. This means he could, in theory, pay up his outstanding salary, and that's that. But contracts for top players will probably include a "market value" clause, meaning that any buy-out has to be done at his perceived market value. Barca wouldn't want to risk letting him go for nothing so will probably settle for less than the buy-out clause if they're convinced he wants to go.

I've heard nothing but the £100-120m range sounds about right if he wants to go, based on where he is with his contract. His wages are largely from commercial/image rights sources and his basic was around £300k a week so a 4-year contract would cost us around £200m overall and we'd make most, if not all, of that back in increased commercial revenue.

A deal has been on the table for nearly 4 years so the issue is his desire to come, not the money.
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
The way Spanish contracts work, the player can put up the amount of the buy-out clause at any time and he's released from his contract. You can negotiate a lower fee but there's legal and tax issues around doing that. His buy-out clause is €250m so if he wants to come, he gives Barca that money and he's out. But the issue here is that he's in the last 2 years of this contract so the Webster ruling applies. This means he could, in theory, pay up his outstanding salary, and that's that. But contracts for top players will probably include a "market value" clause, meaning that any buy-out has to be done at his perceived market value. Barca wouldn't want to risk letting him go for nothing so will probably settle for less than the buy-out clause if they're convinced he wants to go.

I've heard nothing but the £100-120m range sounds about right if he wants to go, based on where he is with his contract. His wages are largely from commercial/image rights sources and his basic was around £300k a week so a 4-year contract would cost us around £200m overall and we'd make most, if not all, of that back in increased commercial revenue.

A deal has been on the table for nearly 4 years so the issue is his desire to come, not the money.
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If PL money, Pep and what we have to offer cant tempt now then it never will.
 
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