if he cared about money he wouldnt be desperate to join barca. edit btw your preaching to the choir here mate. I think he should go newcastle and build a legacy there instead of joining the worse barca side in the last 20 years and be part of madrids wipping boys for the next few years of his career.
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Well, if there is anything at all behind the FDJ rumours then barca could have us pay a fee, send sterling over, save hundreds of thousands a week in wages and still give sterling the wages he'd want. Us taking a VERY big earner is the only spanner...which is why for me newcastle are far more likely than people are entertaining.
Anyway i've gone on enough. My only real point was that its naive to suggest Newcastle have zero chance at getting raz as waspish was suggesting.
I have no doubt we would sell him to newcastle i just know he wont do it. He'd run his contract down and go for free over going newcastle. The fdj rumours aren't really credible know way they give us him they would probably try and give us one of their rejects like dembele.
I actually hope what your saying happens though i dont want us giving him away for free
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They dont have a choice it seems. Nobody seems to want their failures. FDJ is one of maybe 3 players that they could let go(as in dont want to but still might) and make a dent on their inflated wage bill. Not sure how accurate or up to date this article is but it sounds grim:
Barcelona crisis continues as La Liga giants forced to have wage bill lower than Watford | Football | Sport | Express.co.uk
La Liga have announced the salary cap for each of their clubs for this season, with Barcelona punished for their dire financial state.
www.express.co.uk
As for raz running down his contract...if the club sniff this out he can forget even getting the appearances he currently gets. The implications can be huge not just for his reputation. All the while you have a club with a bright future, a big fanbase, new ownership, new players showing up, and big wages on offer...
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There's something seriously dodgy about Chelsea's transfer dealings. I've just done an analysis for KOTK of the last 6 financial years' figures for the 'Big 6' PL clubs. Chelsea's total sales in that period were £640m. The next highest (surprisingly) was Spurs, with £437m, then Liverpool with £423m.
So Chelsea brought in nearly 150% of the next most successful selling club yet they're operating in the same market as all these other clubs. Abramovich is putting in money most years but FFP restricts owner investment to cover losses so it's not beyond the realms of possibility, in my opinion, that he's somehow subsidising those outgoing transfers to bump up the bottom line.
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So are you saying you haven’t noticed how many sitters Sterling misses. How many times he is clear through on goal only to fall over himself. Or how lightweight he has become, as he runs into cul de sacs and falls over so often.
I grant you back in the day Sterling has been immense. But my argument is based on recent times and all of the above happen to him almost every time he plays. Now either he is the most unluckiest footballer on the planet or he is a spent force and needs moving on. Either way he is currently not performing anywhere near the ability required to justify his huge wage.
Time moves on.
I mean that's just conspiracy nonsense isn't it? The kind of baseless shit you get frustrated that people throw at City.
You're claiming half the clubs in Europe are in cahoots with Chelsea to fuck over FFP against their own interests, because it's not like they sell to a few select clubs, they'll sell to anyone.
The better explanation is they're just good at selling. They sell their best players early (Hazard 29, Costa 28, Luiz 27, Matic 28, Courtois 26) whereas most big clubs try to hold on to them as long as possible until they've lost value.
Their ability to sell their youth products/loan army at their peak value is pretty well explored, and the other thing they do is sell off failures quickly before their value crashes - even when this later looks bad (KDB to Wolfsburg for 300% profit, Salah for a few million profit, Morata after 1 season, for a loss).
In comparison, we just never sell anyone unless they're obviously not good enough.
United are a shambles who don't sell anyone out of pride - they have a 32 man squad and give players like Bailly or Phil Jones or Mata contract extensions rather than lose them for nothing.
Liverpool are desperately hanging on the players they have into their 30's because they can't afford to replace them.
Spurs were in Liverpool's situation, but now don't have anyone worth buying and Levy makes clubs avoid them like the plague.
The players leaving Arsenal are all dead wood not fit for the rebuild post-wenger and they've been underperforming so who would they sell?
No other club in the top 6 would have willingly sold Hazard at 29, or Costa at 28. That's the difference between them and the rest.
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