Barça's Transfers and Rumors

[Tomchin]

Benatia/Laporte are worth it. Certainly better than blowing 80m combined on Marquinhos and Cuadrado and then complaining our defence still sucks

I doubt Laporte even wants to come, if yes, then he never would have signed that contract renewal at Bilbao.

 

[DonAK]

Mathieu signed that renewal last year as well. Well aware of the chances of us coming in back for him.

I didnt really understand why Laporte agreed to renew SUDDENLY. Found it a bit strange. Maybe Athletic offered him a big raise in exchange of a higher release clause after the rumours of him linked to us.....

 

[Neymessi]

Benatia/Laporte are worth it. Certainly better than blowing 80m combined on Marquinhos and Cuadrado and then complaining our defence still sucks

This.

 

[KingMessi]

Mathieu signed that renewal last year as well. Well aware of the chances of us coming in back for him.

I didnt really understand why Laporte agreed to renew SUDDENLY. Found it a bit strange. Maybe Athletic offered him a big raise in exchange of a higher release clause after the rumours of him linked to us.....

Or they agreed to let him leave if someone matches the buyout instead of forcing him to pay buyout + taxes.

 

[Flavia]

Valencia defender Jeremy Mathieu (30) is willing to take a pay cut to facilitate his 20M transfer to Barcelona. [md]

I hope this ends today.

 

[ccesc]

 

[SeloBarca]

Lol thats pretty much how it is.
Who are the other ones on the left side?

 

[icemanbrfc]

Mathieu (Valencia): "My transfer to Barcelona could be announced this afternoon? I'm hopeful." [via superdeporte]

Urgh, this doesnt solve our defensive issues.

 

[Flavia]

Urgh, this doesnt solve our defensive issues.

He will help a lot. I surely hope he's not the only one, but you guys talk as if he is bad. He's a very good cb.

 

[Cule4life]

 

[KhaledBarca]

Paying 20 mill for Mathieu basically screws over any chance of us signing an extra defender at a fair price. Now clubs know that they can dik around Barca at will for any price.

we were going to pay around 15m for him anyway. 5m won't make any difference!
I hope we sign Mathieu as soon as possible, he'll add a lot to our backline and give Lucho lots of options to try different systems.
Sign Mathieu as soon as possible, Keep Xavi and then put all the focus to sign a 1 World Class CB. Benatia would be perfect (won't happen) so I would be good with Marquinhos or Hummels!

 

[KhaledBarca]

Can we just sign Mathieu and pay Inigo Martinez or Aymeric Laporte's buyout, and call it a day?

Inigo again? Bartra is miles ahead of him. lol the kid can't stop scoring owngoals, he's just did few days ago in a friendly! Not worth 30m+tax !!

 

[KhaledBarca]

Urgh, this doesnt solve our defensive issues.

He'll surely solve part of it. We'll have to buy another CB for sure. But, 1st sign Mathieu then focus on buying the 2nd CB!

 

[Bertus]

Benatia would be perfect (won't happen) so I would be good with Marquinhos or Hummels!

Because those two are more likely to happen than Benatia

About Marquinhos, let's see but it's unlikely, but about Hummels after that both Klopp and BvB's boss say No to a transfer this summer, some people still believe in it

We should get ready to be disappointed if we hope for Benatia, Hummels or Marcos.

 

[Jadentheman]

It would have been funny if that was like the discount/damaged shelf. But Mathieu isn't cheap so...