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He won't cost 50mil. He will cost 50M PLUS taxes - that's at least 70!!!!! mil. And Bilbao won't be rational - they won't sell him to us for let's say 55 mil to earn more and help us avoid taxes, I assure you. That's way way too much. I would be hesitant to pay that much for even proven young WC...

I think he has problem with his speed/acceleration post injury. You need those to play effectively on RW.

I'm slightly worried about him. His running certainly seems to be affected by injury. Maybe it will improve after a while, but right now it limits his ability to perform as forward, he loses balls he did not just few months ago and sometimes has troubles to beat defenders.

Please no. Too expensive and not good enough. If we must buy CB for that money it needs to be world class CB not just a prospect. I watched some Alonso highlights and while decent, he seems quite clumsy sometimes. Getting some strong Mathieu vibes from him. Someone like Bernat would be...

He has excellent workrate, but his passing and creativity have been lacking. Also his strong attributes (shot, FKs, goalscoring) are not used a lot in Barcelona system. And if someone like Gundogan comes there won't be place for him/that many midfielders anyway.

Buying Nolito would be stupid. Just another short term solution good for 2 years at most. We should being back Deulofeu during summer tranfer window instead. He's cheaper and younger. Generally speaking our squad right now seems to be in good shape. I thought we need RB and CM badly but Alves...

Yes, he won't be competing for midfield spot at all. He'll be competing with Rafinha for the spot of Messi's backup. Messi is playing every game now, but that doesn't need to be true in (near) future. Also Halilovic has quite similar style to Messi, especially Messi in deep creative role, so the...

I don't think he was worth that much. He was almost completely burned out when he left and had quite high salary.

Why buy and loan? We have option on him for 2 years I believe... If we buy and loan him now we are just taking more risk. It's either buy him and play him, or let him remain at Villareal and buy him in one year.

Forwards typically become good faster than midfielders (or CBs) though.

We don't need him now. We needed him few months ago, when Turan was banned, Iniesta was thought to be declining and Sergi Roberto was crap. Besides he is too similar to Iniesta and Turan. Let him stay in Villareal at least until the summer.

They have a good management. Their best players are all given extensions well in advance so that when other clubs are interested, they have little leverage to force a transfer with so many years remaining on contract. I don't think PSG allowed "hostile" sale of one of their players since new...

It's not like we have much leverage. His contrct will end in 6 months. I'd be positively surprised if we managed to include buyback in that sale.

Maybe, but after Neymar (and maybe Messi too) gets his new contract, our transfer budget will shrink again. And God help us, if we win treble again :). The bonuses would kill us.

We can't even afford to pay 18 mil for Nolito, so yes right now we HAVE financial problems. And I believe Liverpool could pay 25 mil for MAtS. He is young, talented and quite hyped for being a backup. Also Premier league is financially strong enough, so we might see such offers more often now.

And pretty thin squad. Yes it is nice surprise, I especially feared that we will lack creativity with Messi out. Last season he was pretty much the only true creator on team... Our midfielders were occupied with winning te balls and Neymar's passing was his main weakness. Without drastic (and...

I'm afraid, that even if TS doesn't push for transfer too much, the board might decide to sell him if they get good offer. Remember, we have financial problems now and we don't have good field players to sell (Adriano&Douglas won't net us much). So if let's say Liverpool offers 25 mil., we might...

Maybe his injury isn't fully healed, maybe he still isn't fit. And maybe it's mental - he is afraid if he runs too much he'll reinjury himself.

They likely mean loan with mandatory purchse clause for accounting purposes.

None of these players were flops, except maybe Bale. We bought worse.