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Selling Frenkie would clear 110m and alleviate the need to sell off more club assets. 80m transfer fee + 30m gross wages = 110m. Alas, lad does not want to leave.

Barcelona will have to activate the fourth economic lever because the club needs another 100m in order to register players [cat radio]

Cristiano had 31 Premier League goals at age 23 and won the PL + CL double. Mbappe does not compare. Messi comparisons are even more absurd.

Aye. No match to Mbappe's presentation to a full Bernabeu.

You can tell Laporta was a politician. :lol:

Since Pep took over, they replaced their entire squad apart from KDB, spent around 2 billion euros and there are only a handful of players you can come up with that were objectively poor signings. Otamendi and Managala were pre-Pep. Grealish might be the biggest blunder of them lot. Mendy had...

Manchester City have usually not regretted backing off a deal due to wage/transfer fee that does not fit their structure. Partly the reason they have very few true flops.

Chelsea rumoured to be signing him for 63m euros...

Riqui Puig to LA Galaxy, here we go! Barcelona have included a sell-on clause in the deal. [Fabrizio Romano]

On some level I do feel for the Puig fanboys. They cared far more about his career than Riqui himself ever did.

:lol:

Xavi: "I want my centre backs to be good with the ball, as Eric and Christensen are ideal for that. I think Araujo can be a good right back."

Has shown he is still retains his mobility and physical attributes. That is the most important thing for a player this age. Not worried about lack of goals. His class is not in doubt.

Has had fleeting world class form before. Don't care about preseason, want 30 goal contributions from him.

To be fair they matched us well in the first half. Only after switching their entire XI in the second half did we start dominating.

Good news, Alemany will poach for 50m next summer.

LA Galaxy of the MLS are interested in Riqui Puig. [md]

What is there for Leo teach youngsters? Surely his diet, training, professionalism is top class, but Messi became the player he is by having once in a lifetime talent. That is not teachable. He is not extroverted, nor is he some Ronaldo/Lewa level fitness freak. Would not take him even if he...

If he comes Pedri must be sacrificed from the XI for the sake of balance. Kessie is a must. Unfortunately, Busquets is still indispensable for Xavi this season, so dropping him is out of the question. Busquets-Pedri-Silva would be run ragged against better sides.

I will wait to see how the team gels and the new arrivals perform before making grand proclamations about what we should and should not be winning. On paper most the squad looks great, but that is not always how things transpire on the pitch. Remember when blokes were calling our squad top 3 in...