Thiago Alcantara

[IanBishopsHaircut]

Are City actually after this lad or is it just pure speculation?

I'm guessing the latter

 

[Claytop]

Are City actually after this lad or is it just pure speculation?

Hunter seems to think we are, for what its worth.

 

[TommyBenarbia]

If he's available at the buyout clause price people have been talking about....every club at the top should be interested.

Could you imagine Thiago and Isco linking up in blue shirts!?

 

[woolleyback blue]

Sorry to be a fly in the ointment but City will have known all about Thiago's buy out clause and the price long before we started the negotiations for Fernandinho. We paid somewhere near £30mill for Fernandinho, who nis older than Thiago, so why would we do that if Thiago was available for £18mill.

This leads me to think that we needed a Fernandinho type player far more than we need a Thiago type player.

It would be great to sign him but we must pay some lip service to FFP and it seems we had prioroties in other positions that were higher.

If he goes to the rags so be it, I'll be interested to see how the great tactician Moyes emplyes him in a 4-6-0 formation.

 

[Bulldoglikeapproach]

I simply cannot see why Barca would let him leave. He is a perfect replacement for Xavi or Iniesta. These players do not come along very often and they are huge boots to fill, but Thiago has shown early promise and he has been at Barca since 2005. It does not make any sense that they would want to sell a player with such potential especially with their policy of bringing through young and talented players who stay in the squad for long periods of time.

Just look at Puyol, Xavi, Iniesta, Pedro, Busquets and Messi. These players entered the youth academy and have been at the club ever since, resulting in incredible success for the players and for Barcelona.

If you have a chance to be great at Barcelona, why would you choose to leave? Name a bigger club. Anything else is a step down.

Ok, Barca do have an ageing squad, but they do have a number of rising stars including Thiago. Couple this with future investment, it is not likely that they are going to disappear any time soon.

He has a release clause that, at the moment is 18 million quid so they don't have a say in the matter. Plus he wants more game time and wants to leave. So in this case Barcelona can't do anything and it's their fault that he is leaving.

Surely he will be given assurances by Barca, they can see his talent. In himself, he would have to take a huge gamble to leave.

I believe he probably was given assurances the last contract, hence the buyout if the playing time clause was not met. Probably pretty frustrated at this point after another year of unfulfilled promises.

 

[kenzie115]

The only reason Thiago would leave Barca is for playing time. If he came to us he wouldn't get it, at United he might. We're supposed to be the only two premier league teams after him so if he does come to England I'd say there's much more chance it'll be United than us. I think he'll stay put myself though.

 

[Daz_Blue]

Rafael Hernández ‏@RafaelH117 34s
Thiago is already signing Manchester United shirts:

 

[Neville Kneville]

Sorry to be a fly in the ointment but City will have known all about Thiago's buy out clause and the price long before we started the negotiations for Fernandinho. We paid somewhere near £30mill for Fernandinho, who nis older than Thiago, so why would we do that if Thiago was available for £18mill.

This leads me to think that we needed a Fernandinho type player far more than we need a Thiago type player.

It would be great to sign him but we must pay some lip service to FFP and it seems we had prioroties in other positions that were higher.

If he goes to the rags so be it, I'll be interested to see how the great tactician Moyes emplyes him in a 4-6-0 formation.

Sense at last.

 

[Blue Smarties]

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Now can we call him a **** and point out he's 22 and look at Iniesta etc at that age? ;-)

 

[Batman]

Probably already been covered I know but has TH mentioned anything about our stance re thiago