Barca Transfers and Rumors

[Devils]

Hopefully Denis gets some chances too. Clearly a very talented player and should be given opportunities.

 

[SeloBarca]

Awful last year, and now were even worse...
fun season ahead..

 

[Barcilliant]

Well, Valverde has his work cut out for him.

My biggest worry with our current players is Luis' Suarez. He's turned to shit big time. We cannot keep on relying on Messi for goals.

4 2 3 1 is our best bet. Valverde is comfortable with that formation. Let's see how the season pans out. No expectations here.

 

[Pepsbarca]

Let us keep it positive and look at how Zidane built his own coffin by "over relying" on youngsters.

Madrid lost an experienced CB (Pepe), CAM (James) & and a ST (Morata) ... yet they did not buy experienced replacements. Their team is thin and they will suffer if a striker or a defender gets injured.

I think you're clutching at straws here. You can't deny that they are the best team in the world right now.

 

[kattanib]

I think you're clutching at straws here. You can't deny that they are the best team in the world right now.

You have got to admit that their backup defence is horrible

If Ramos or Varane gets injured, their sub is either Vallejo or Nacho.

If Carvajal gets injured, their sub is Nacho or Theo.

If Marcelo gets injured, their sub is Theo

 

[LordLichtenstein]

Initial transfer budget:
€123M

Sold:
€222M - Neymar
€4M - Tello

€226M + €123M = €349M

Bought:
€105M - Dembélé
€40M - Paulinho
€30M - Semedo
€12M - Deulofeu
€2M - Marlon

€189M - €349M = €160M


Seeing as we didn't capture Coutinho this summer, we have around €160M left from this year's transfer budget, which should be transfered directly over to next year's budget.
Next summer we need a complete makeover of our squad.

1)

Iniesta's contract ends next summer and he's turning 34 in May.

2)

Douglas' contract ends in 2019.
Munir's contract ends in 2019..
Samper's contract ends in 2019.
Vermaelen's contract ends in 2019.
Deulofeu's contract ends in 2019.
Mascherano's contract ends in 2019 and he is turning 34 in June.

3)

Arda, Rafinha, Gomes and Vidal will probably leave the club.


This is how our squad will look like:


-------------------Dembélé/????????-------------------Suárez/Paco-------------------Messi/????????-------------------
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---------------------Suárez/???????-----------------Busquets/Paulinho----------------Roberto/Rakitić-------------------
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Alba/Digne----------------------------Umtiti/????????----------------Piqué/???????-------------------Semedo/????????
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------------------------------------------------------ter Stegen/Cillessen---------------------------------------------------

 

[SeloBarca]

IF Messi signs...

 

[SeloBarca]

Well, Valverde has his work cut out for him.

My biggest worry with our current players is Luis' Suarez. He's turned to shit big time. We cannot keep on relying on Messi for goals.

4 2 3 1 is our best bet. Valverde is comfortable with that formation. Let's see how the season pans out. No expectations here.

Its not as much Suarez beeing shit as the midfield beeing unable to give him and Messi anything of quality to work with.
Well struggle even more with that this year, relyign even more on Messi to create everything, dribbling past 10 players in every attack and scoring 60 goals.

 

[JerseyAddict]

I am 37y old man with real problems in life. I just wake up in middle of the stormy night from a dream we signed secretly a great brazilian star midfielder.

Thank you fucking board for stealing our little mans dreams!

 

[khaled_a_d]

1)

Douglas' contract ends next summer.
Munir's contract ends next summer.
Samper's contract ends next summer.
Iniesta's contract ends next summer and he's turning 34 in May.

Other than Iniesta, all of them has contract to 2019

 

[LordLichtenstein]

My main targets next summer:

Coutinho (€120M)
Lemar (€100M)
Cancelo (€25M)
Manolas (€?M - 1 year left on his contract)
Gímenez (free)
Goretzka (free)
Can (free)


Attack: Messi, Suárez, Dembélé > Lemar, Paco, Deulofeu (6/6)

Midfield: Coutinho, Busquets, Roberto > Denis, Can, Goretzka (6/6)

Defense: Alba, Umtiti, Piqué, Semedo > Digne, Manolas, Gímenez, Cancelo (8/8)

Goalkeeper: ter Stegen, Cillessen & Ortolá. (3/3)

 

[Nothanks]

I can't wait till football manager 18 comes out so i can just delete all of this from my mind and act like the game is a reality lol

 

[Hektor]

I was very disappointed in not getting Coutinho. With Dembélé, Messi, Suarez, and Coutinho we would have been a tremendous force, again. It did not happen and we have to move forward. However, the present board of clowns has to go. Period.

The negativity of this board is asphyxiating. This player is crap, the other is garbage, so and so is not good enough to play for us, etc. etc, etc. Most of our players form part of their countries' National Team. They are not crap. In fact, they are all-stars. Just because they did not do well under Lucho, it does not mean that they will have the same fate under Valverde. Lucho was not a good manager and let's leave it at that. We have to give Valverde a chance. He just took over and we are yet to lose a game under him. Pep was not a success from the start.

Let's see what we really have. We have the winter transfer season to make adjustments. Visca Barça, Carajo!

 

[Lelouch vi Britannia]

Need two CMs and a striker next summer. CB if Marlon and Mina don't work out. Busi will be 30 too, might be time to start looking at his long tern replacement.

 

[Hektor]

Need two CMs and a striker next summer. CB if Marlon and Mina don't work out. Busi will be 30 too, might be time to start looking at his long tern replacement.

We have Samper, who is on loan. We should look at him first, next season. We have to look from within, first.

In the long run, we will not be able to compete with the Premier league and the oil money and/or Chinese billionaires' money. We have to establish an excellent scouting department to scout smaller European countries, like Croatia, for example. South America should be a main target area together with Africa. In other words, we have to discover young talent at the fraction of the cost of established players. We have La Masia to develop them. Spain and especially Catalunya should be our main target area; we cannot forget about our backyard like what happened with Asensio. For that we need a visionary Board and not the present clowns.