Barca Transfers and Rumors

[BarçaBarça]

Metin Albayrak (spokesman Besiktas): “We know that he [Mario Gomez] is in serious talks with FC Barcelona and BVB." [dogan news agency]

Fuk me if we sign Gomez....

If it is a Tello-swap and we still buy a young prospect, I'm not mad. But only Gomez this summer would be disapointing.

 

[KingMessi]

Mario GOLMEZ!

 

[khaled_a_d]

If it is a Tello-swap and we still buy a young prospect, I'm not mad. But only Gomez this summer would be disapointing.

We have couple of young forward prospects in Juvenil A team & Barca B and many whom signed this summer & last one (Guillemenot & Mujica) and we missed on guys we wanted this year like Vietto,Dembélé,Jesus
I would be fine with Gomez signing and we could postpone the search for a young striker for next summer,and who knows may be those we already have take a serious leap.otherwise we might be making a signing for the sake of making it.
Sure,it can be underwhelming,but it won't make the summer disappointing

 

[Egert]

 

[BarçaBarça]

We have couple of young forward prospects in Juvenil A team & Barca B and many whom signed this summer & last one (Guillemenot & Mujica) and we missed on guys we wanted this year like Vietto,Dembélé,Jesus
I would be fine with Gomez signing and we could postpone the search for a young striker for next summer,and who knows may be those we already have take a serious leap.otherwise we might be making a signing for the sake of making it.
Sure,it can be underwhelming,but it won't make the summer disappointing

Surely it wouldn't be good with a panic-signing, and I'm not talking about the summer as a whole as a disappointment. But the case with Gabriel Jesus is a disappointment if we really wanted him - I have a hard time imagining that we couldn't persuade him if we told him the buyout was already paid, but maybe I'm naive. How is the playing time looking better at City, than here? And we could be prepared to loan him until January. Seems like every young player is suddenly making 'the wise choice' and only cares about enough playing time and nothing else. I don't know much about Barca B and Juvnil players, so you could be right, there.

 

[Flavia]

I get that it's a hard sell with MSN being virtually unbenchable. I'm just saying that is not like the 4th striker will rot on the bench. Particularly if they are good enough to make in impact, they'd get enough minutes to at least have a decent contribution to the team and for them to gain enough match experience to grow. Yeah, you don't start every match but you have the chance to learn from the absolute best.

I'm just saying, Munir, D. Suarez and Rafinha as forward subs aren't going to have the same impact as even a Vietto.

Bottom line and the main point I'm arguing is that for too long, this club let's an important part of this squad go and takes far too long to fill the void instead of being proactive and finding these players before a vital cog leaves. Puyol, Abidal, Xavi, Pedro and now probably Dani, when these players left it took too long to find at least players of similar characteristics (not saying out and out replacements, I know it's fucking hard to replace players like those).

I'd just rather us stay ahead of our current squad, to be always thinking a year or two in advance instead of always trying to play catch up. We've done a lot better this summer in this regard but the 4th striker is still a legitimate weakness in our squad. Off the bench, we have plenty of options for controlling games when we have a lead and some like for like changes now (something we didn't even really have last season) but we still lack someone who can make an offensive impact off the bench.

I'm just not convinced enough from Munir, I'm skeptical if he can come to be as prolific as he was as a youth player and right now, he's the purest sub we have for Suarez right now. It's just not good enough for the biggest occasions and unless he finds some consistency this year, I just don't think he will inspire enough confidence that Lucho will be able to trust him in big games. He's young still but for me, it's a male or break season for him.

Makes you really admire the type of player Henrik Larsson was for us.

Robert is looking for a striker. But so far Dembele and Vietto reject Barça, and others did too. I'd rather a young one, but it's looking likely that an older player will come.

 

[Total-Football]

Mario is good.. but just like gundogan . Good dont mean anything when you spend your paycheck in the infirmary. A fit gomez would give that extra muscle to our attack and thus new possibilities once we re out of options

 

[God Serena]

Mario Nooooomez

 

[khaled_a_d]

Surely it wouldn't be good with a panic-signing, and I'm not talking about the summer as a whole as a disappointment. But the case with Gabriel Jesus is a disappointment if we really wanted him - I have a hard time imagining that we couldn't persuade him if we told him the buyout was already paid, but maybe I'm naive. How is the playing time looking better at City, than here? And we could be prepared to loan him until January. Seems like every young player is suddenly making 'the wise choice' and only cares about enough playing time and nothing else. I don't know much about Barca B and Juvnil players, so you could be right, there.

I think you are ignoring financial factor,people keep talking about his buyout but what about the 3rd party money?his wages?
I think City has simply outbid us.

 

[Devils]

You guys are crazy.

Mario GOATmez pretty much guarantees 20+ goals per season (would score more playing at Barca). He's available and is a great solution short term and will allow Munir to go on loan and develop. He would be great as a back-up striker.

Sign him up, Barto.

 

[KingMessi]

Sign Mario GOLMEZ and give him Vermaelen's 23.

 

[Icarium]

You guys are crazy.

Mario GOATmez pretty much guarantees 20+ goals per season (would score more playing at Barca). He's available and is a great solution short term and will allow Munir to go on loan and develop. He would be great as a back-up striker.

Sign him up, Barto.

20+ goals? Yeah sure. He is well past it.

 

[KingMessi]

20+ goals? Yeah sure. He is well past it.

He's better than Mandzo or Gignac.

 

[Flavia]

20+ goals? Yeah sure. He is well past it.

He scored 26 for Besiktas. I know, weaker league, but he did it

 

[BarçaBarça]

I think you are ignoring financial factor,people keep talking about his buyout but what about the 3rd party money?his wages?
I think City has simply outbid us.

You might be right, I just thought it was a 24M€ buyout, so if you paid that amount, everyone would get the share they were entitled to, and no-one could do anything about it, and only the player would decide if he wanted to go. Are brazilian buyouts more complicated than that? Of course there is wages, but I don't really buy that - how much more could he get at City.. All that aside, I know it pose a problem if he only could play from January, but if we wanted him long term we could have done better, IMO.