Barca Transfers and Rumors

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Loki

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Season is over and summer break is about to start, so we're about to be flooded with nonsense rumours.

Well you can ignore all klick baits and just wait for official confirmation. But we have no tournament summer ahead of us, so at least the rumours will fit the gap a bit.
 

DonAK

President of FC Barcelona
Chelsea and PSG have both made 60m offers for him which is his release clause. Don't know much about him myself tbh. Seems like the ball-winner type of CDM.
 

Porque

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Reminder he moved to Sporting last year for 10.5m.

Also a reminder that Mendes was behind that move and not our friend. He could have offered him to us last year for that fee, but then he would have missed out on this summers big move.

It's our job to find these guys before the 60-100m mark now that we can't compete in the market.

Balde, Gavi, Pedri, Araujo have basically given us a free lunch to find 1 or 2 cheap talents to flesh out around them.
 

jamrock

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We probably wouldn't have signed him anyways, we only seem to sign High profile players coming out of south America or B team players.

Those in-between ain't Barcelona's style, not that it shouldn't change.
 
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Porque

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We probably wouldn't have signed him anyways, we only seem to sign High profile players coming out of south America or N team players.

Those in-between ain't Barcelona's style, not that it shouldn't change.

Yeah Ugarte wouldn't have passed the Barca DNA test anyways to be fair, with our Busi idealistic approach.

But damn, we could have got someone while Busquets was here, considering he has wanted an out for yeeears.

Look at his face on Sunday to finally get out, like a Swiss kid at a cheese factory.
 

jamrock

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Lol he was trapped in a golden prison.
Barca's biggest mistake over the years was poor succession planning to replace our "golden generation" the obvious replacement for at least 3/4 of them should have already been at the club while they were here.


But planas did us good with Araujo & Pedri, so thank goodness for that.

While la masia, which has always been our source for low cost players to get into the first team as oppose to buying cheap, Is back producing players

Balde, gavi, if injuries didn't basically end fati's chances at the high level and yamal.

That would legitimately be 6 players of our starting XI over the next 5-8 years, right now assuming yamal develops we are at 5.

Add De jong, Kounde, Christensen to that list, the future is looking bright.

Find a busquets replacement & a striker, we'll be competitive for years to come.


The club will take the Madrid model, which was really always the modal before Barto and what any big club not backed by oil has to do, which is go big in the transfers market every 3 or so years, and go easy in the years in-between, we are set up perfectly to do so with that age profile of our team, I'm pretty certain in 2 years we'll be going all in on whomever the hotness prospect in football is at that moment in time, let's just hope we get it right this time, with the current people in charge I'm confident we will.
 
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DonAK

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If Mbappe is free in 2024/25 I can see is going in for him & having a shot.

His contract runs out after upcoming season unless he triggers the one year extension which is his decision and not PSGs or agrees to a new deal. Don't see a reason why he should do that unless he has no ambition whatsoever.
 

Porque

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Rumour Madrid will offer him 80m sign on fee. So far from free.

Still cheap though in the current market, 80-100 for Mbappe.
 

khaled_a_d

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Yeah Ugarte wouldn't have passed the Barca DNA test anyways to be fair, with our Busi idealistic approach.

But damn, we could have got someone while Busquets was here, considering he has wanted an out for yeeears.

Look at his face on Sunday to finally get out, like a Swiss kid at a cheese factory.

tbf (I know I am using that term a lot lol) we have yet to buy a Mendes agent under Laporta.

We got Adama on loan, and pushed many youngsters toward him (Nico, Balde, Lamina and Fati.)

Which is good, better than youngsters going for Railoa's agency or ROGON, he is a top agent who takes care of his clients but otoh he isn't pushing them out like the aforementioned agents.

Would love to see the club getting benefits of his scouting ability, but that doesn't seem to be part of the deal.

PS: this is why agents working as SD makes sense, Mendes has a job to scout such talent early and study the fit for them to shine. They aren't just negotiators.
 

Nello

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If Mbappe is free in 2024/25 I can see is going in for him & having a shot.
A bit funny how people are so keen on Mbappe, while a big part of the forum is against Messi returning for a year or two due to how his limited workrate off the ball would affect our team.
Mbappe at the age of 24 literally runs less than 35 year old Messi and would possibly contribute even less defensively.
Also seems to have a bigger ego and be atleast as moody as Messi has ever been. Would also no doubt demand much higher wages than the 25m Messi has been offered.

He is an absolute killer tho, and the most dangerous player of this generation so far.
 
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