Lionel Messi - v7

[FCBfan22]

If he goes to United...

Lol.

 

[Birdy]

The meeting between Koeman and Messi was not friendly.

-Leo was surprised by Koeman's style who was strict and wanted control from day one.

-Koeman told him that the privileges he had previously had expired, and that the priority was for the team.

- Koeman tells the team captain that players will end control of the locker room with him.

[Cuatro]

If True,
Koeman is the coach we all need, and I don't care how beautiful football we will play next season.
Ending the cancerous locker room is no1 priority right now

 

[Devils]

CUATRO | Manchester United is the only club who can pay what he gets in Barcelona in addition to the financial ability to sign with him

 

[KingLeo10]

Lol CR7 haunted Juve in the CL and went there.

Messi's haunted United in the CL and would be funny if he ended up there.

 

[Porque]

That article claims they sold 60m worth of jerseys not that they made 60m.

Clubs make deals with suppliers to get the vast majority of profit from any shirt sale.

Juve would have made nowhere near 60m and may made next to nothing as Nike pays them and takes profit on shirts unless their is commission involved which is most likely minimal.

That's just the first 24 hours. They take a 10-15% cut on shirtsales.

Then trickle-down marketing deals post CR7 signing.

https://en.as.com/en/2020/02/13/football/1581584493_640286.html

https://www.sportspromedia.com/news/juventus-adidas-kit-deal

Any financial difficulties Juve have now are similar to ourselves adjusting to a post-Covid climate.

But I think it shows that there will be associative benefits to a club signing Messi to make it worthwhile despite his years- on and off the pitch.

Especially for a club like City and an apparel sponsor like Puma. Nike would work very hard to keep him at a Nike branded club.

 

[Respekt_III]

Sounds like bullshit to me. He'll play out the last year and retire or retire now if the board allow it. Not going to move his family and his comfortable life to play for a year or two in England.

 

[El Guaje]

Well he cant really leave now unless the board seriously cut his transfer fee

Its Messi, he will most probably get to leave if he really wants to. We ofc wont get anything near the release clause, but 100m or so will do it, just like when RM got rid of CR7.

 

[fergus90]

I don't think there is any chance Messi moves at 33 to any other club in Europe. He has privielges here that he wouldn't be afforded anywhere else despite his standing in the game. In fact there would be immense scrutiny on him to live up to his reputation abroad. I'm not sure he needs that at this point in his career. My guess is, at worst, he currently shows no interest in renewing beyond this coming season.

 

[FCBfan22]

The move to United could seriously tarnish his legacy:

-I seriously doubt 33yo Messi can elevate United to the level of City and Liverpool

-He will destroy his reputation as a one club man

-United's squad is underperforming and probably nothing will change soon

-He will be compared to CR7 when he was at United, despite current United being shit and Leo being 33 by the English media

 

[KingLeo10]

-He will destroy his reputation as a one man club

One club man.

 

[JamDav1982]

That's just the first 24 hours. They take a 10-15% cut on shirtsales.

Then trickle-down marketing deals post CR7 signing.

https://en.as.com/en/2020/02/13/football/1581584493_640286.html

https://www.sportspromedia.com/news/juventus-adidas-kit-deal

Any financial difficulties Juve have now are similar to ourselves adjusting to a post-Covid climate.

But I think it shows that there will be associative benefits to a club signing Messi to make it worthwhile despite his years- on and off the pitch.

Especially for a club like City and an apparel sponsor like Puma. Nike would work very hard to keep him at a Nike branded club.

If Ronaldo was generating huge sums that make contract viable then he would be about last one to go when tightening due to covid.

Articles making up figures about how many shirts were sold don?t mean much and how many sold with Ronaldo on back is not relevant. It is how many additional shirts were sold in comparison to previous years.

 

[FCBfan22]

One club man.

Yeah... A typo.

That is current Barca.

 

[malvolio]

One club man.

one man club - that's what we have been for a while
also
i guess the man utd rumor is just lazy journalism, as this would be the only big team sponsored by adidas that could make it happen.

 

[Porque]

If Ronaldo was generating huge sums that make contract viable then he would be about last one to go when tightening due to covid.

Articles making up figures about how many shirts were sold don?t mean much and how many sold with Ronaldo on back is not relevant. It is how many additional shirts were sold in comparison to previous years.

Well perhaps. But I'm going to stick with sources like SportsPro.

 

[Ritchie]

It sounds harsh, but Man City would be weaker with him.

They would run less, move less, press less.
They would have less options in attack.
Messi would score some individual wonder-goals but their results as a team would probably go down.

It sounds harsh, but he wouldn't improve any of top teams who run a lot like Bayern, Liverpool, City.

City might buy him only for marketing reasons.
Like Beckham in his Milan/Psg/Usa days.

He can play only at Barca, Man Utd, Arsenal, Psg and Inter at this point.

The problem with Barca is he has been the only player opponents fear since Neymar left. Stop Messi stop Barca. Same with Argentina so he gets crowded out the game.

City have De Bruyne as well as Sterling and others who opponents have to deal with.