They have made lots of great signings, but very few of those were results of those fantastic negotiating skills you're talking about. If Barça had had the common sense to seek them out, we wouldn't have paid more.
You fail to mention that that so called backup striker is fairly young and had...
To City? Of course we could. If Douglas wasn't Douglas and Vidal was better than he is, we could easily have offloaded them if the interest was there. Sadly they're not.
So, do you think that James deal was a result of those amazing negotiation skills by Uncle Flo?
Your logic it retarded.
Or board are idiots in more way than I can count, but how in the everliving fuck is it always on them if the clubs owning the players won't sell? Are you also one of those who believe that Uncle Flo could waltz into the office of Dortmund, wag his magic stick for a bit...
Barcelona based EMD journo Edu Polo reports it as well. Either way, I can't possibly fathom what RM would gain from those rumors? If there's contact between either of the clubs, the agents and thus the player will know of it, meaning such a Marca fabricated tidbit would be of absolutely zero...
Just realised I should have somehow incorporated variables in the poll options.
I'd probably also go as high as 90-100 plus hard to accomplish variables.
Dude, you'll find those vids all over YouTube. As soon as any player is rumoured to any club, those Welcome to... vids start popping up... It hasn't got jack shit to do with Barça, Arsenal or any other club for that matter.
Is it just me or does Valverde seem to have a lot less emphasis on attacking full-backs than we've come accustomed to? Not that it's necessarily a bad thing, but judging by our preseason so far, it seems to hold true.
If that's the case, then I wonder why we opted for Semedo and not a more...
Like Mata? Strange, I never got that impression, not even remotely. I mean, Mata is slow as a turtle and often looks to dictate the offensive game, whereas Lemar looks fast and direct. I could be wrong of course, as I haven't seen that much of Lemar.
I haven't seen that much if Lemar, but he looks much more of a direct winger type to me than someone who could play the Iniesta position. So I'm guessing he'd be the Dembele alternative? Can anyone tell me more about him?
Of course we'll sign someone big - it's a no-brainer really, as Barto knows he's digging his own grave if not.
Whether it'll be the right fit for Valverde and the team is another question entirely. For the sake of my own sanity, I still chose to believe we're hard at work at signing Dembele...
It's been done multiple times during the past couple of days. Last night it was a matter of hours, earlier today it was oddly enough still a matter of hours. These Twitter heroes are talking shit as always, and this won't be done until either of the clubs confirms it.
Yeah, the worst part is that we thought this mad infatuation with Paulinho was a thing of the past, and then suddenly it's again close to a done deal. We can only hope it's journos shooting in the dark.