Barca Transfers and Rumors
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Raketa10
Senior Member
I expect them to finish it ASAP. End of August will come and we will be in big fucking trouble with clubs demanding ludicrous amount of money and we will end up with Gomes or Arda 2.0 not to mention new players need time to adapt.
As things stand right now I don't even know who can we sign if Coutinho or Dembele transfer fails and we need both of them.
I don't rate Lemar as high as Dembele or Coutinho and I don't believe Mabappe or Hazard are realistic options. Griezmann for sure won't leave ATM this summer so we need to wrap Coutinho and Dembele ASAP.
Of course I didn't expect those transfers to be finished in one day but with Barto and Robert in charge I have my doubts if they are able to pull those two big deals. If Dembele is Ney replacement and Coutinho our midfield solution than Coutinho deal had to be considered even before Neymar left but we lost one month on Verratti although we all knew it won't happen.
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We can afford it but I don't think we are brave enough to try .... bet Real Madrid would though ..
That's not strictly true ... When Coutinho is in midfield he gets stuck in and he's tough - he's never gonna be a great tackler of course .. but that's not what we want or NEED from him tbh
Trickykid
Active member
I said from the moment the Verratti rumors started surfacing that it was a lost cause, and we should never have bothered trying. We lost valuable time there, no doubt, which is completely on Robert and Bartomeu who don't seem to be able to learn from similar cases over the years. However we don't really know how much of a say that the board wanted Valverde to have in the signings, which could explain some of the delay. Hell, perhaps the board didn't seriously see Coutinho as a option due to his fee up until the Nerman sale, which obviously freed a lot of funds for going for more expensive options such as him.
You have no faith in our brass to pull off these signings, which is fair and square, but then I don't understand why you seem surprised that we're not signing them fast enough?
In that case Coutinho isn't far behind Messi ( as is Verratti ) ..for seeing and making killer through balls .
Raketa10
Senior Member
I am not surprised I am more mad because of the fact that Dortmund will demand 100+ and Lpool 120+. We will have to burn 222 mil on two players I want here but are not worth that amount of money.
I am not blaming the board for that cunt Neymar leaving but I am blaming them for bad planing and for not anticipating anything. They had to know he was leaving few weeks ago and they had to go for at least Dembele or Coutinho before we got 222mil. Now both Lpool and Dortmunt know we really need those two players and that we have 220+ mil. They will fucking blackmail us.
Why I want it to go fast, well the more time we lose they will cost more since THEY KNOW WE NEED TO BUY and dadline will come soon.
In the end we will have less money than before that huge Neymar deal and that is called BAD MANAGING OF THE CLUB.
So insted of that 'se queda' or 'he is 200% staying' bullshit they had to plan his replacement much quicker, as soon as it became clear he is leaving.
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BenRobbins
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Hazard, Dembele or Martial would be the 3 main LW targets if it were down to me. Work your way down that list imo.
Trafalgar
Senior Member
There's no chance we can get Hazard and Martial is overrated.
Trickykid
Active member
The real bad management part was the 222m release clause, and even then I don't think many people could've envisioned the scumbag Qataris cheating FFP by gifting Nerman to P$G...
As soon as the rumors about Nerman jumping ship started surfacing, other clubs knew about us potentially coming for their players, our pockets bulging with box fresh euros. I don't think it's as easy as telling Liverpool and Dortmund that we'd love to sign their stars - who they in the first place would be extremely reluctant to part with - but perhaps only if Ney ends up slithering off to a mountain of money. I won't pretend to understand how ridiculously expensive deals such as these are brokered, but from years of experience following them from afar through the media, I know they take time, and are nowhere near as simple as give us your star player; here's a bunch of euros! .
There's no way we can get both, that's for sure. Coutinho is veeeery unlikely as Liverpool is very resistant and the fee would have to be astronomical, way over a 100 million. Dembele is possible but will also be really expensive, a 100 million at least and Dortmund's president just recently said that he believes a 100 million is too low for him so even he would take most of our transfer budget. I'm starting to think it may be impossible for us to sign a proper replacement this summer, unless we really want to pay a 150+ million for someone...
Raketa10
Senior Member
We have the money but the problem is that they are not worth that amount right now. The only sure thing is that only one of them is not enought.
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