Lionel Messi | Joins Inter Miami (pg4111)

[HaalandEffect]

Gulfstream LV-IRQ is soon landing in Rosario.

 

[ws01]

Not sure I totally agree with you - member owned clubs also mean the fans get a say in the direction of the club. Benefits and negatives to both models.

Which I think can also be detrimental. Fans don't always know what they want, or what's best for the club.

If I pitted one Khaldoon against the intellect of 50,100,200 average Joe's, I'm tipping Khaldoon every time.

 

[JoshH7611]

So did Peter Swales. The guys a washed-up failed owner with a grudge. That's why he's at the halfway house known as Talk Shite. He knows as much as me Mam.

Hahaha, this had me laughing.

 

[Nicholas van Whatsisface]

The 90% staying story reads to me as a pretty obvious part of the negotiation tactics from the Messi side - a threat that, if Barca don’t start to compromise, he’ll stay on his current terms, sign for his new club in January (just 4 short months away), and leave for nothing in June.

Barca are fucked financially, and are unlikely to countenance throwing away a substantial transfer free now purely out of stubbornness.

Bartomeu needs Messi to sign an extension - which even the 90% story says isn’t happening.And that’s significant.

Providing Messi and his team don’t suddenly decide on a complete about turn, and sign a new deal (which no-one is credibly claiming is a possibility) then this will get done.

All the Twitter bullshit everyone is getting themselves so worked up about is just noise. We’d do well to remember that.

 

[Dirty Harry]

Which I think can also be detrimental. Fans don't always know what they want, or what's best for the club.

If I pitted one Khaldoon against the intellect of 50,100,200 average Joe's, I'm tipping Khaldoon every time.

You never watched "The Chase" mate ? ;-)

 

[KennyG]

From what i gather (i am probably dead wrong); we are not even close to him. The ballpark is at Barcelona atm and we are not even geting a "come-and-get-me" plea from Messi.

Done a Kaka. Bottled it!

 

[BigJoe#1]

Blew up on or off the field?

Off the field two words tell you how different we are.....Peter Swales.

Fair point, but whilst being one of the best ever players to have played the game do you think he'd have a destabilise effect on the team?

Given his age, he is at the wrong end of his career, is he worth this kind of mone, not withstanding the fact he will probably make a massive contribution to his cost through shirt sales and all the other paraphernalia that will inevitably come with him?

 

[Inter Me Nan]

The 90% staying story reads to me as a pretty obvious part of the negotiation tactics from the Messi side - a threat that, if Barca don’t start to compromise, he’ll stay on his current terms, sign for his new club in January (just 4 short months away), and leave for nothing in June.

Barca are fucked financially, and are unlikely to countenance throwing away a substantial transfer free now purely out of stubbornness.

Bartomeu needs Messi to sign an extension - which even the 90% story says isn’t happening.And that’s significant.

Providing Messi and his team don’t suddenly decide on a complete about turn, and sign a new deal (which no-one is credibly claiming is a possibility) then this will get done.

All the Twitter bullshit everyone is getting themselves so worked up about is just noise. We’d do well to remember that.

The voice of reason.

 

[andyhinch]

Nothing has changed. Messi is on strike. His only possible destination is City. The rest is a dance or a negotiation.Nothing is ever done until it’s done and I often use the phrase “many a slip b’twixt cup n lip” to talk about transfers but in this instance I feel like this is more a matter of when not if.

That’s basically where I’m at, cheers.

 

[Sky Blue]

Done a Kaka. Bottled it!

You wish.