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I'm very happy to have Dembele now given all the circumstances. However. We could have had him for 15 million last summer. And it would have made sense even if we still had Neymar. You implement a rotation system where one of Messi, Neymar or Suarez is often rested (something that was actually...

Munir shoudn't be the one shipped out, Paco is much more of a burden (especially given his salary).

How could that be true though? Messi knows very well what it is like to play with Di Maria, and it cannot have escaped his attention that it has never worked very well

Because some clubs need to protect their dignity. If you keep letting your players go to other clubs, you become a selling club. And if you are a selling club, you cannot be considered among the very best (and you won't be anyway, as you keep losing your best players). It is also not true that...

Today: 2 goals, 2 assists, won a penalty too, PSG win 6-2.

Shot from outside of the box but in 1vs1 situations on the counter attack. Not shots from outside of the box with a packed defense between the ball and the goal

This. He hit the post from a FK, and from two shots outside the box. Barely any clear chances. Which is why this win should not be grounds for celebration, we won and the press look good, but creatively we are very far from where we have to be

And there we have it, spend 40M on Gomes, send Samper on loan, keep Gomes, spend another 40M on Paulinho, ship out Samper. What could be a better symbol of how the club was destroyed from within... Even if Samper is not the next Busquets or Xavi, he was never worse than Gomes and can't be worse...

If anyone has the knowledge of the game and tactical intelligence to do it, it's him. The problem is that he is not going to be the one playing.

So we're supposed to fear them and bow down to them? Am I the only who sees the problem with that kind of thinking?

Rakitic was a good signing for 20M, Played integral role to the treble season. The problem is that he has declined so much since then

Yes, and I struggle to think of many example going the other way.

EIA says otherwise: https://www.eia.gov/beta/international/data/browser/#/?pa=00000000000000000000000000000000002&c=ruvvvvvfvtvnvv1vrvvvvfvvvvvvfvvvou20evvvvvvvvvvvvuvo&ct=0&tl_id=5-A&vs=INTL.57-1-AFG-TBPD.A&vo=0&v=H&start=2014&end=2016

Oil production in Qatar is 1.5 million barrels a day, and they are a member of OPEC.

I didn't say he's wrong about that -- Qatar has been working very hard to diversify with their sovereign wealth funds. But they are still a major oil and gas exporter. Dubai on the other hand is the place in the Gulf that has almost no oil and is entirely focused on tourism and investment. Which...

Interesting bit of info here: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/aug/03/psg-neymar-buy-out-rejected-la-liga-barcelona?CMP=twt_gu

You're confusing Dubai and Qatar. Qatar us very much an oil and gas producing country

They are not that rich and not that stupid. Noticed how PSG stopped making big money transfers the last two seasons as oil prices dropped? However, while they don't have 200M a day to burn, they do sit on several trillions of assets, and they needed to make statement this summer (not just for...

We only bought Semedo so far, and we are not exactly broke (yet). Nothing prevents us from buying Dembele even if the Neymar money hasn't come in. Veratti would have cost about the same, and we going for him long before the Neymar saga started

That's my reading of it too. Clearly we have no intention of keeping him, otherwise he would not have been erased from everything within a day.