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Rumor around the blue side of Manchester is that Gundogan is seen as a Pep replacement and they want him to get badges. He was sent by the club to the youth setup last year to show the U16s how to play Pep-style football and the club are impressed with him. There's video on the City website...

Good points and well reasoned. Aguero and Fernandinho coming off a total of about 380k pounds per week should help as well.

I'm ignorant on matters of Messi's contract. I thought he was on around 2m per week. We just survived a FFP CL ban on appeal to the European authorities. How would we make this work financially without getting banned again? Oh ok. I didn't know his contract was up in the summer. Sorry

How will you release him from his contract? He's making about 40% of City's entire payroll as a salary. Add in the transfer fee and it would be half our current revenue. Unless Messi is feeling kind and gives up half a billion quid for sentimentality.

Not sure I want him after that. Paying a huge transfer fee +130m per season for a player whose legs have gone would ruin us. We would fail FFP horrifically for a player who can't run in Pep's system. His salary alone is the price of Haaland, a striker whose father played for City. We need a...

They pretty much annihilated us. But they aren't consistent at the back, nearly allowing us to draw the game. If they had two more defenders and a quality keeper, they might win it.

lol where are the PSG fans that haunt this forum? They'll be gone. We told you. Nobody cares about French football. You can't beat a million dollar club like Madrid with a ten dollar manager. You are totally irrelevant outside France.

If it were up to me, I'd have Pep sign a lifetime contract. Knowing that he will leave us someday occasionally makes me feel bittersweet. I'd watch this football forever, even if we didn't win as much. I never appreciated his genius at Barca due to Messi and the rest. Now it is obvious, his...

PSG fans are probably shitting themselves right now. The most expensive transfer in history and it's unraveling 3 months in. Neymar doesn't look like he has the emotional stability to stay at any club very long.

When the hell is Neymar going to beat Bayern, Barca or Real Madrid with Unai Emery? Won't happen. Do you really see Unai Emery winning the CL with a French club?

https://www.insidesport.co/top-10-worlds-popular-sports-leagues/ Know why we're on an English language forum debating this? Because people speak English. Know why we're not on a French forum debating this? Because French isn't spoken and will never be a global language. And the year before we...

lol nobody cares about Ligue 1. It's in French, which few understand. It has one viable team. The only other one just sold all their good players except one, who will soon be sold anyway. Neymar's career will suffer for going to Ligue 1. It will never be a big league due to language barrier...

I think the problem is the concept of market rate. Neymar would take the brand ambassador role for a fraction of 300m. It's so gaudy that if this happened in the US, the feds would be kicking down the doors of the company to investigate money laundering and tax evasion. If Neymar uses this...

Player is supposed to buy himself out, no? So PSG has circumvented UEFA rules and probably some accounting rules to keep Neymar's buyout and salary off-the-books. A company owned by the same man who owns the club is paying him an outrageous 300m sponsorship. Not only does this violate FFP, but...

It always hurts to lose a player, but with 220m you could buy a whole football club in the French/Brazilian league and use it as a feeder club. Pull a Monaco. Long term, paying this much for a player is inefficient and wasteful. Spread 220m over 5 players, PSG improves the team. Spend it on one...

I've watched sports other than football since I was a child. American football, basketball, baseball, even golf. I'm a jaded sports junkie. Seen it all. So this is really hard for me to type. In all those years across all sports, I've never seen a manager transform a team like Pep. Everything...

We've planned for Pep since the moment we hired Begiristain and Soriano years ago. We told Pellegrini he was a short term manager from the start. We hired an older manager because he has no problem retiring with a nice payoff. We bailed out his brother Pere in the Girona deal for this reason...

I have a question and don't know if it's taboo or what, here goes. What are you all going to do if Catalonia secedes and Barca are kicked out of La Liga? Hard for me to imagine Barca not in La Liga, but the Spanish chiefs have threatened this. Seems suicidal for the league. Where would you play?

Don't bother signing Aguero if you're going to put him on the right. We don't put him there because he's ineffective. He would probably take over Neymar's spot on the left as he'll chip in 30-40 goals when healthy. And then what will you do with Neymar? His best position is central with a tall...

Not sure if this is right forum but here goes. Is he going to be sold? I'm hoping you guys have the real story because the press always make up stories, like last summer he was going to United etc. I'd rather him not come back to England if he's not coming here, especially with our FFP...