Barca Transfers and Rumors

[Ousmane Dembélé]

BBZ just write a book man FFS.

 

[Jombi]

Imo, it would be insanely stupid to buy Coutinho for 150M and then pair him with young and inexperienced Dembele, Alena, Lemar or Arthur (plus De Light and Semedo in defense).
What is the point of buying Coutinho and having Messi, if these kids will need at least 2-3 years to click, to learn our system, to get some chemistry etc?

So, buying Coutinho and expensive youngsters make zero sense.
Coutinho and a free agent Gortzka is ok.
But Coutinho, 50M De Light, 50M Arthur is suicidal.

We should pick either this or that.

Why do you make this arbitrary cut-off point at 22 years old, and then go on and attack countless transfers that would be 22 years old or older? The signings you attack, Umtiti, Ter Stegen, Goretzka, Lemar, Neymar etc are not in any way in the same league as players like Halilovic (who was a Barca B signing for 2m euros as a "kid" (17?)). Of course those signings would have a lower chance of success than the expensive super signings like Ibra or Suarez. Super signings are also given a lot more playing time and patience too.

Now you claim that you want Coutinho. He's basically as close as we can get to being borderline unavailable. But leave that aside for a moment. He has won even less than Cesc and the other Arsenal players we bought who you chastised for not having won enough trophies prior to joining us. He hasnt won any trophies, in either England nor in Europe. And what do we do if the Coutinho chase turn into another Verratti chase?

Finally, Goretzka is not a "kid". Same with the other players you attack. The guy has almost 150 senior matches and plays and scores regularly for the German national team. He is a realistic signing. He is not Eden Hazard or De Bruyne. Those trains left the station when they signed for Chelsea and City from Lille and Wolfsburg. You know, from the crappy French and German leagues. Trying to chase these superstars from rich clubs is not a sustainable solution going forward.

 

[JamDav1982]

Barca should be chasing likes of Coutinho without a doubt.

Be ridiculous if were not after him at moment.

Griezmann and Coutinho should be the prime targets next year. Even if it takes 250m to do it.

 

[Aryagorn]

BBZ just write a book man FFS.

There's a good scope for a series too

 

[Ousmane Dembélé]

There's a good scope for a series too

Yea, just imagine if he took all his posts on this forum and made them into a book format. He'd have at least 10 books with a 1000 pages each.

 

[Barcilliant]

Amazing performance plus three goals .

Hope there's a clip somewhere showing his best bits tonight .

Some of the passes were sublime!

Coutinho will be insane money. Buy Arthur and get Goretzka for free.

 

[DonAK]

Coutinho will be insane money. Buy Arthur and get Goretzka for free.

We need quality right away. Goretzka and Arthur might need 2-3 years to get to Coutinho's current level and by that time Messi will be 33.

Sign Coutinho and one of Arthur or Goretzka. Perhaps both if they're ready to boot out most of the midfield.

 

[xXKonan]

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Cat Radio's possible options to replace Mascherano in January.

1. Yerry Mina

2. Paying the Buyout clause of Inigo Martinez

3. bringing back Marlon from Loan.

4. or an Unknown CB.

 

[Aryagorn]

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Cat Radio's possible options to replace Mascherano in January.

1. Yerry Mina

2. Paying the Buyout clause of Inigo Martinez

3. bringing back Marlon from Loan.

4. or an Unknown CB.

For the time being, bringing back Marlon would make the best sense. Besides we need Arthur more than the CB.

Well, that is if we thought Arthur would be the best signing for midfield.

 

[Nothanks]

can't have both marlon and arthur apparently because of non eu's
suarez, paulinho and one spot left

we need a eu centerback

 

[stk93]

our non-eu spots are taken by worse players l0l paulinho, marlon and mina will be next i can bet

 

[Messi983]

Yea, just imagine if he took all his posts on this forum and made them into a book format. He'd have at least 10 books with a 1000 pages each.

Yeah but we'd have to pay for his books and here we have everything for free.

 

[Zincubus]

For the time being, bringing back Marlon would make the best sense. Besides we need Arthur more than the CB.

Well, that is if we thought Arthur would be the best signing for midfield.

.@GuillemBalague:
"Arthur has got an agreement with Barcelona, but that needs to be confirmed in an agreement with Gremio. Barca do not want to pay his €50m buy-out clause.”

 

[MessiCam]

€50M is too much for him. I like him but that’s a lot of money...

 

[khaled_a_d]

Doubt we are even considering 30M for him. And doubt they will be able to get anything more than that. Few players from Brazil was sold by more and all were attackers