Lautaro Martinez

Batistuta9

New member
The board seem obsessed with this transfer. I like him but 111m is way too much. If the board wants a player with his profile we should buy chimy Avila. He's scheduled to be back from injury around July and has a similar build, work rate and goals to games ratio. He's also low risk with release clause of 25m, probably why the board doesn't want him
 

Messi983

Senior Member
Griezmann - Chimy - Braithwaite

Make it happen.

At least we would have forwards who can actually run, lol.
 

vuji_31

Senior Member
It is too late for chimmy .
He said in interview that he almost signed for Barca.
But obviously 30years old Braithwaite is better option.
 

El Ilusionista

Well-known member
So todays story, Barca offers 60M + 2 players (probably semdedo + vidal)

According to Gazetta Inter wants 80m + Semedo + Vidal + Todibo. Or Bar?a to pay up the 111m clause.

Inter board are deluded man if you rate Semedo at 40m, Vidal at 20m and Todibo at 25m + the 80m that would be 165m in total lol. Delusional.
 
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Vilarrubi

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The board seem obsessed with this transfer. I like him but 111m is way too much. If the board wants a player with his profile we should buy chimy Avila. He's scheduled to be back from injury around July and has a similar build, work rate and goals to games ratio. He's also low risk with release clause of 25m, probably why the board doesn't want him

New transfer policy: we can’t buy anyone unless their transfer fee is 3 figures. Even for 99m we wouldn’t buy them.
 

vuji_31

Senior Member
They don't want to sell him.

So they are making big price to scare Barcelona. I would not consider paying for this fraud more then 40 mil plus Todibo and Vidal. Even this is too much.
 

malvolio

Senior Member
The board seem obsessed with this transfer. I like him but 111m is way too much. If the board wants a player with his profile we should buy chimy Avila. He's scheduled to be back from injury around July and has a similar build, work rate and goals to games ratio. He's also low risk with release clause of 25m, probably why the board doesn't want him

while chimy would be a lower risk at 25m, the transfer will be something just to make up numbers in our squad and we already did this with braithwaite.

lautaro is seen as the next big thing for argentina. higuain and aguero are on the retirement route while dybala seems more of a messi type of player(plus he blows hot and cold). lautaro is already on 9 goals from 19 games with argentina.

so it is easy to see why we would be interested. plus messi seems to endorse him. plus we have the best track record with south american strikers. so maybe that's why we are not going for the likes of werner, kane etc.

not saying that this would be the best option, but there aren't many available(there seems to be a drought of good young strikers). plus the transfer would be possible, unlike other targets.
 
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Batistuta9

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while chimy would be a lower risk at 25m, the transfer will be something just to make up numbers in our squad and we already did this with braithwaite.

lautaro is seen as the next big thing for argentina. higuain and aguero are on the retirement route while dybala seems more of a messi type of player(plus he blows hot and cold). lautaro is already on 9 goals from 19 games with argentina.

so it is easy to see why we would be interested. plus messi seems to endorse him. plus we have the best track record with south american strikers. so maybe that's why we are not going for the likes of werner, kane etc.

not saying that this would be the best option, but there aren't many available(there seems to be a drought of good young strikers). plus the transfer would be possible, unlike other targets.

You're definitely right about the lack of young world class strikers these days, it's the reason why inter are able to demand 111m. Even at this price there are other teams like Man city, man u and psg interested in him. I just don't want us to spend 100m on another player, if he flops, we would have spent 500m on failed transfers with dembele, coutinho, griez and lautaro
 

ronniecro

Active member
So todays story, Barca offers 60M + 2 players (probably semdedo + vidal)

According to Gazetta Inter wants 80m + Semedo + Vidal + Todibo. Or Bar?a to pay up the 111m clause.

Inter board are deluded man if you rate Semedo at 40m, Vidal at 20m and Todibo at 25m + the 80m that would be 165m in total lol. Delusional.

it's all rumors at this point but man does everyone fucks with us nowadays
 

BBZ8800

Senior Member
I have no idea why we want a forward who can't score goals.

Not to even mention that we want to pay 100M for him.

Fc link-up-play-(yet-no-trophies)-lona.
 

mc_lovin

Senior Member
We never win anything.

Spoiled brats.


We want him because hes culturally fitting, had a great CL campaign and looks more than decent for argentina. No idea if that will work out for us, but other than Haaland (who has his own demons) there arent interesting strikers on the market (dont mention Werner, please).
 
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BBZ8800

Senior Member
We want him because hes culturally fitting

What does that mean?

That he is South American and this is why we are buying him?
Or that he resembles of Barca DNA?

About Barca DNA forwards, Martinez is Pep's DNA forward, not Barca's DNA.
In 90s and 00s, our Fcs were R9, Kluivert, Giovanni, Rivaldo, Dani, Etoo, Larsson.
All of them were 180-195 cm tall and more like a good, old NO9s.
The only different type of forward was Saviola and he was an ultimate shit and we had the worst period in this century when we had that type of a CF.
We moved to mobile forwards during Pep, but it is hard to tell whether mobile forwards work at all, or they worked only because we had Messi who was covering everyone's ass and all tactical flaws.

So: if your comment was that Lautaro is Barca's type of a forward.
No, he is not.
He is Pep's type of a forward.
Pep was Barca's coach for 4 years. He has his own ideas. Barca's ideas over 120 years were somewhat different.

If your comment was about a culture, that Lautaro is from a South America.
Well, outside of Messi, who came here as a kid and who was a different case, our success with Argentinian players is mostly bad.
Argentinians were always the best at Inter Milan and somewhat at Real Madrid.
Barca always had the most success with Brasilians, Dutch and Spanish players.

A list of Argentinian players at Barca in this century:
Messi, a different case since he came as a kid to La Masia
Mascherano, a success
CF Saviola, horrible
CAM Riquelme, horrible fit, sold after 1 season
LB Sorin, stayed one season on a loan, played 15 la liga matches
CF Maxi Lopez. Lol. No comment needed.
CB Gabriel Milito. Forever injured.
GK Bonano. Probably among top3 worst GKs whom we ever had.

And we could add a mighty Tata Martino as a coach, who was totally lost in the end.

So, if we don't count Messi, out of 8 Argentinians who were connected with our club in this century, we have only Masch as a success and 7 horror stories.

Does Lautaro still sound as a culturally fitting?
 
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