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Is this the Coutinho thread or...?

903600783907852288 No shit

At the moment I see any deal as pretty difficult given the lack of any substantial rumours at the moment. Perhaps they are working very very queitly, but given how Segura already lied to the press about Dembele and Coutinho deals being close after the Supercup, I can't believe that.

This whole mess makes the Seri disaster seem even more bizarre. I wish this was just a bad dream and I could wake up in the alternate universe where Verratti is still a possibility and Paulinho is just a name I vaguely remember from following PL news a few years back.

They're using Di Maria as a smokescreen. For... whatever. That has to be it. Yeah, it has to.

Listening to all of Robert's statements in the presser, this one, in its tone and insistence, seemed rather bizarre. To me it sounds like A) he is pretty sure of another signing (Coutinho?) that definitely rules out Seri or B) something major has happened behind the scenes which rules out Seri...

Watzke has denied it apparently lol

It's actually kind of cute.

Of course Fernando Polo and all the shitty Catalan sources who have had absolutely no clue about anything this whole summer are more in the know about Dortmund's demands than the CEO of Dortmund himself who confirmed that the 150M figure is bullshit. The board mouthpieces from Mundo Deportivo...

Hopefully he's just recycling that piece of information from Aguilar saying we have canceled a meeting with Dortmund today.

I'm hoping this is just some weird negotiation strategy which only makes sense in the through-the-lookingglass heads of Barto, Segura, Robert & co

If this is true and something similar will happen with Dembele, I don't see how this can not harm our transfer attractiveness in the future. How could potential targets not be completely turned off by that and stay away?

I don't buy it. They had a cover calling this the day of Seri and coincidentally within half an hour of Seri's comments get new information that says the opposite? How about Seri's comments made them seem clueless once again and they tried to save face (and try to prove that Barto didn't sign...

He shouldn't have signed a long-term contract then

If football internet always resorted to opera songs to express emotions and meltdowns, it would indeed be a much prettier realm.

Odd statement. Contracts are binding, pacta sunt servanda. Players should think twice before signing them. Have a player with 4 years left on his contract force his way out by refusing to do what he's paid to do ridicules the club and the legal contract they have. If that becomes the norm, clubs...

Yep. This childish strike has made things much more difficult and added unnecessary toxicity. If he had just played nice BVB would probably have been more cooperative and our reputation not been tarnished.

I didn't say they were, but they signed a player who has a history of doing that. Now that he does it again, they suddenly suspect Barça to be behind it because "Dembele ist noch kein fertiger Mann" and "he wouldn't do this on his own". Barça being behind is an assumption, there's just as much...

Not the first time it happens with Dembele either... and Barça weren't involved back then. BVB don't seem to mind when their targets have a history of pulling stuff like that off (Dembele, Tuchel), and get offended if they reoffend? Weren't you telling thr story of your gf with a wandering eye...

Source? Haven't seen anything like that. Most are just reporting about Watzke's comments from today, which weren't negative at all.