Mehdi Benatia

[Gohan]

Id pick Barcelona over Munich anyday.

 

[DonAK]

Better climate. Beach.

Those two reasons are good enough for me lol.

 

[Affiae]

yeah

 

[Ryu Hayabusa]

Well, it all comes down to whether you are a culturally sophisticated person with a sense of high society and like to ski in the winter while enjoying some of the best beers and best food in the world, or whether you want to have a warmer climate and want to be close to the sea.

 

[Trickykid]

Well, it all comes down to whether you are a culturally sophisticated person with a sense of high society and like to ski in the winter while enjoying some of the best beers and best food in the world, or whether you want to have a warmer climate and want to be close to the sea.

If you want to boil it down to those categories, Barcelona isn't easily beaten. You can ski a couple of hours from Barcelona, and frankly the city itself has culture coming out of it's ass - not just in form of arcitecture. German beer, while rather famous for it's history, isn't exactly something to travel for, to put it politely, and I doubt your cuisine beats that of Barcelona's - unless of course you hate seafood and tapas.

 

[Hamzah]

First off Barcelona is more sophisticated than Munich. Secondly footballers don't care about that and want good weather, high wages and to play in a good league.

 

[zanela]

As if a "beer" festival is going to be any interest to Benatia. lol

Anyway, Bayern will mostly likely get him if their pursuit is serious, because as things stand we've not entered the race. Our priorities lie elsewhere, from the looks of it.

 

[Gohan]

Munich only has beer, which Benatia isn't interested in at all... Anyways, it is not like we can't get the guy. Our board seems to be in love with David Luiz. So yeah..

 

[Culeee]

Would love to see this guy play for us.. but like som1 already pointed out, our board seem to prioritise luiz

 

[Jägermeister]

Is this still a player chat? I heard more often that Bayern want Laporte than Benatia.

Btw the nicest cities in Europe have to be either Venice or Florence

 

[jamrock]

of course barca will have the edge 8 times out of 10 if they try to sign a player.

its barca and real, then everyone else.

the other teams only have an advantage with their home nation players.

but if you put equal money and everything for a player from lets say romania.

barca and real would likely win that player.

 

[Ryu Hayabusa]

Btw the nicest cities in Europe have to be either Venice or Florence

+1

German beer, while rather famous for it's history, isn't exactly something to travel for, to put it politely, and I doubt your cuisine beats that of Barcelona's - unless of course you hate seafood and tapas.

Personally, I don't consider Tapas actual food. And seafood, yeah, not a big fan of that tbh.
And did I understand you correctly that you just insulted German beer in terms of diminishing its quality? Oo
I mean... you are used to Carlsberg (which I also enjoy from time to time btw), so I guess I misunderstood you, right? Cause in what universe is (basically any) German beer worse, especially the Bavarian, to Carlsberg (an okay beer)?

Munich only has beer

So you never been to Munich and most likely Germany, I take it.

btw, before anyone asks... I've been to Barcelona. Especially dat area right next to las ramblas... very "impressive"
That was the most "ghetto" I've ever felt, and I'm from Berlin...


2topic: IMO he would be the perfect solution to Bayern's CB misery this season. On the other hand, we still have Badstuber... Though there's a huge questionmark behind him (will he ever be as good as he was before his two ACL tears, or maybe even better? when will that be? is he still prone to injury?)
If he goes to Barca instead, he would do equally well, I guess. Though I'm actually hoping a bit that you end up with Luiz
(with proper tactics, he might actually do just as well as a CB)

 

[Hamzah]

Benatia doesn't drink anyway. I've been to Munich, it's nice but to be honest it's boring. I wouldn't want to stay there. No offence to anybody that lives there. I think German and maybe Scandinavian players aside people would choose Barca if given the choice.

 

[linetty]

I dont think the German language is very attractive too, on top of all that has been said...

 

[Ryu Hayabusa]

I dont think the German language is very attractive too, on top of all that has been said...

Not attractive to learn for people coming from countries whose natives speak a romanic language you mean?