Martin Odegaard

[Ghostmaster]

OMG what a hype about this kid, I have a feeling that in 2-3 years ppl will be writing something like "you remember that Norwegian kid what was his name again Mar... something, Martino was it? Where is he now?"

 

[Luftstalag14]

You said something about not throwing away your principles for landing a big star, big talent etc. Martin and Neymar are not comparable, but what you said didnt make any sense. So its ok to throw morals aside if its a proven star, but not otherwise? I dont get this.

Exactly. We threw money at Neymar not only because of his talent and what his brings, but because of his potential to be the future face of Barca, following the footsteps of Ronaldo, Ronaldiho, Messi etc. So in my opinion this is OK because he was a special case.

 

[Bertus]

I am not saying he is a bad guy because he values money or something. I am just saying we, along with Bayern and many other clubs would not be able to offer him that kind of money that Real Madrid offered him.

That you can't doesn't mean others should not do it if they can while not crossing any lines.


By crossing lines I mean RM doesn't break any rules or anything.

 

[Hamzah]

people here are jealous and butthurt. they have a scarcity mentality, if they realised we have plenty talents of our own they'd know there's nothing to worry about. also real madrid has improved its youth setup recently, it's a good move for him.

 

[Bertus]

Exactly. We threw money at Neymar not only because of his talent and what his brings, but because of his potential to be the future face of Barca, following the footsteps of Ronaldo, Ronaldiho, Messi etc. So in my opinion this is OK because he was a special case.

This is ok based on what? Your moral values? Your view of football?

You know from my POV what's surrounding Neymar's transfer is infamous. Not the money, but what happened behind the scene. What could have been illegal. What could lead neymar's dad to the court.

RM didn't break any rules in offering him this salary, nor broke any laws.

If you ask me "based on my moral values", I prefer this Odegaard's transfer compared to that neymar's deal.

 

[KingMessi]

I don't care that Martin chose money. It's just that it's a lot of money per week and he could possibly get sidetracked.

 

[Luftstalag14]

Well who is disputing that? The point was that when we signed Neymar, our board jumped through some pretty shady hoops to make it happen. Hoops that break with these supposed principles that bind Barca, as if making big money deals like this is somehow "beneath us".

The fact that Neymar was one of the biggest talents in the world didn't make what happened during his transfer okay does it?

This is going in circles and getting boring.

For the Nth time, I see Neymar and Odegaard very different case. One is a proven, established player, one is not. With Neymar I am OK with us throwing money at him (and he'd better earn it) as I see him a special case; with Odegaard, being an unestablished youth player, I don't know what his relatively huge paycheck will do to the dressing room and the back office. Perhaps Real Madrid is grooming him to be the face of Real Madrid for the next 10-15 years, OK then.

 

[Hamzah]

Exactly. We threw money at Neymar not only because of his talent and what his brings, but because of his potential to be the future face of Barca, following the footsteps of Ronaldo, Ronaldiho, Messi etc. So in my opinion this is OK because he was a special case.

neymar was already world class at even 20 years old. odegaard although younger is several levels behind. people forget that we actually own the number one young talent in world fotball.

 

[Kohe321]

This is ok based on what? Your moral values? Your view of football?

You know from my POV what's surrounding Neymar's transfer is infamous. Not the money, but what happened behind the scene. What could have been illegal. What could lead neymar's dad to the court.

RM didn't break any rules in offering him this salary, nor broke any laws.

If you ask me "based on my moral values", I prefer this Odegaard's transfer compared to that neymar's deal.

100% agree.

 

[DonAK]

Kohe321 get ready for the crazy RM bias by the media here for the next years

 

[Luftstalag14]

That you can't doesn't mean others should not do it if they can while not crossing any lines.


By crossing lines I mean RM doesn't break any rules or anything.

Nope Bertus, I am not accusing RM of crossing any lines. I don't see other folks doing that either.

 

[Kohe321]

Kohe321 get ready for the crazy RM bias by the media here for the next years

Yeah that's one of the downsides to his choice. Can't wait to listen to Fjørtoft go even more apeshit during Champions League broadcasts. He'll probably need to breathe into a paper bag before they go live if Martin scores a goal in the future

 

[Bertus]

I don't care that Martin chose money. It's just that it's a lot of money per week and he could possibly get sidetracked.

He could get sidetracked by lots of things besides money in his lifetime.

There's no point in judging him when nothing happened at all for now.

 

[evilhita666]

Does this transfer have any implications that could be investigated by FIFA?

I'm not saying RM is doing something wrong, it's just that I don't know anymore what rules is FIFA enforcing when it comes to signing youngsters...

 

[frog-fcb]

You don't know what RM promised him, nor the different clauses in this contract if he doesn't get the promised playtime.

How can you say he refused better prospects if you don't know anything about what was offered to him. FFS.

Better prospect is not only about playtime right off the bat once he signs a pro contract.

Will we all.know he is getting 80k a week which for a.youth player at 16 is an absurd amount hed be foolish to turn it down.
Im not saying he HAS turned down better prospects what im.saying is the 80k per week wages is most likely the main reason he choose madrid

Lets say you had an offer of 10k per week and garunteed first team football or 80k per week to start off in a b team and were you may never make first team and the expectation s due to your wages alone will be outragous which would you take