Mehdi Benatia

[KingMessi]

Relax.

Just needed to vent.

 

[Lionheart]

If the price were 40-45M for Benatia I could accept it, but 61M?! Just.. Wow... We do have a major crysis in our defence, but splashing 61M for just one defender is silly, even for us. Let´s move on.

 

[Ode to Django]

And they got him for 13m, iirc. That's good scouting... Something lacking for us.

They also bought Toloi for peanuts, and i'll be willing to bet my left nut it will be the exact same scenario couple years time

 

[FCBarca]

And they got him for 13m, iirc. That's good scouting... Something lacking for us.

Our scouting, even internally for La Masia in terms of central defenders is sorely lacking

 

[ebieymjunior]

Our scouting, even internally for La Masia in terms of central defenders is sorely lacking

They have good defensive scouting, but they don't buy. Same with La Masia.

 

[AnfieldEd]

61m euros!!!

 

[CatalinR10]

So...what's Barca going to do ?

Overpay for a good defender or go another season or two without a great CB and lose again probably in the final stages of CL ?

 

[hulinat]

Benatia would probably be in Barcelona right now if we had offered 40-45M for him before PSG bought Luiz.

 

[Butaan4barca]

They have good defensive scouting, but they don't buy. Same with La Masia.

or even if they do, every body in the academy wants to be a midfielder and eventually becomes one.

 

[Cule4life]

So oil clubs have put the final nail in the coffin of the transfer market. Its so depressing. Cant help envision a future in which we miss out on majority of our targets due to inflated market run by oil.

 

[Galning]

Benatia would probably be in Barcelona right now if we had offered 40-45M for him before PSG bought Luiz.

There's simply no way you can make such a claim.

 

[Bertus]

So oil clubs have put the final nail in the coffin of the transfer market. Its so depressing. Cant help envision a future in which we miss out on majority of our targets due to inflated market run by oil.

Oil clubs are not responsible for how Barcelona board fucked up 2 years of mercato in a row.

Really, so much hate. If Barcelona board was not totally retarded, they would not have waited 2 years to get a good CB and to get promising youth that could be the world class CBs from tomorrow.

Always the oïl clubs fault, sure.

It's also the oïl clubs fault that Messi was a ghost this past season i guess.

And it's because of oil clubs that Madrid will buy Suarez 100M euros again.

 

[xxxxxx]

He'll probably go for cheaper than 61m euros. I think if we offer like 45m, they'll sell him.

 

[Tomchin]

Why does he want 61M btw, such a strange number? Or does that equal 50M pounds, the amount that PSG supposedly paid for Luiz?

 

[Galning]

Why does he want 61M btw, such a strange number? Or does that equal 50M pounds, the amount that PSG supposedly paid for Luiz?

He just pulled a number out of his arse. He said Benatia's left leg alone is worth 30M so he concluded that his right leg must be worth 31.