Iniestaultra is screaming now as Nico is picked by Pep, but not ricky.
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Messigician
Senior Member
So we get 13m
Meh I’ll take whatever
Meh I’ll take whatever
Iniesta Ultra
Senior Member
City's too boring for Puig smh.
Yeah that clause should never have existed.
6m for 60% of rights is nothing. And should have been all considering Nico had LaLiga interest.
Question is how the F can Porkchop turn a 6m Barcelona player into 60m within 2 seasons.
Had we loaned him to Porto ourselves and he performed the same, we would have been luckily to do this deal for 30, and would have snapped City arm off for 25m
6m for 60% of rights is nothing. And should have been all considering Nico had LaLiga interest.
Question is how the F can Porkchop turn a 6m Barcelona player into 60m within 2 seasons.
Had we loaned him to Porto ourselves and he performed the same, we would have been luckily to do this deal for 30, and would have snapped City arm off for 25m
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JamDav1982
Senior Member
Bit of an idea of why Pep is signing the players he is and the comments Pep has made before signing likes of Nico.
They are saying he has realised football needs now needs more physicality in middle of park and pace up top more so than compared to recent years.
They are saying he has realised football needs now needs more physicality in middle of park and pace up top more so than compared to recent years.
FCBarca
Mike the Knife
I think people forget the desperate situation we were in at the time the club was left with little option but to move Nico due to so many early budget & FFP issues. As I mentioned early on, Nico is a casualty of Bartomeu’s calamitous reign - he sunk the club and left us with few palatable choices to stay afloat/competitive until solutions were found to rebuild
Ideally, he’d be here flourishing with the rest of the cantera kids who dream of thriving in the senior team. Nico was good enough but crappy timing, we were fortunate to get what we got out of his eventual transfer. Reality is the club didn’t have the leverage to maximize when the whole world was privy to the ongoing mismanagement crisis
Equally amusing how many here even panned any poster lamenting his exit at the time because they discounted his potential - we still see it now with many in the current squad. That myopia prevents balanced assessments
Ideally, he’d be here flourishing with the rest of the cantera kids who dream of thriving in the senior team. Nico was good enough but crappy timing, we were fortunate to get what we got out of his eventual transfer. Reality is the club didn’t have the leverage to maximize when the whole world was privy to the ongoing mismanagement crisis
Equally amusing how many here even panned any poster lamenting his exit at the time because they discounted his potential - we still see it now with many in the current squad. That myopia prevents balanced assessments
JamDav1982
Senior Member
Absolute nonsense.
You cant give likes of Kessie 10m a season and Gundogan 18m a season and still paying him even now then claim Barca 'had to sell Nico for 8m'.
They paid 30m raising to 60m for Roque that same season and also signed Romeu.
They literally added over 35m into the books for Romeu, Gundogan and Roque.. spare this moronic idea they had to sell Nico for that.
Usual garbage trying to fit some narrative.
Bartomeu made a ton of errors.. leaving the likes of Nico in La Masia was not one of them and club were never 'forced' to sell him and if were it was due to their own poor allocation of FFP as Kessie, Gundogan and Roque etc prove.
You cant give likes of Kessie 10m a season and Gundogan 18m a season and still paying him even now then claim Barca 'had to sell Nico for 8m'.
They paid 30m raising to 60m for Roque that same season and also signed Romeu.
They literally added over 35m into the books for Romeu, Gundogan and Roque.. spare this moronic idea they had to sell Nico for that.
Usual garbage trying to fit some narrative.
Bartomeu made a ton of errors.. leaving the likes of Nico in La Masia was not one of them and club were never 'forced' to sell him and if were it was due to their own poor allocation of FFP as Kessie, Gundogan and Roque etc prove.
Joan
Well-known member
Absolutely. If I remember well, Nico wanted to leave for playing time. It was obviously a good move for him since he wouldn't have developed the same way here.
iniestaGOAT
Senior Member
60 million. What a joke!
City gets scammed once again
You love to see it
City gets scammed once again
You love to see it
ajnotkeith
Senior Member
I say this so many times but giving players a chance to shine in developmental leagues is the best thing you can do for their value. Putting them straight into a top5 league at young ages will tank their value if they are seen to fail.
Clubs still believe in statistics and performances in leagues like Portugal, Belgium, Netherlands etc and buy from there frequently. What is the point of loaning such players to top5 leagues immediately or even the Prem as we did with Fati? Loaning to a step down league is almost zero risk.
Messi983
Senior Member
Agree with your point but Fati is a bad example. We loaned him to a club willing to cover most of his wages. In other words thinking short term to create cap space (so we could sign both Portuguese bums on loans) rather than try to increase his value long term while covering bigger part of his wages for a season. Probably wouldn't matter much and he would still refuse to leave anyway though.
But surely with players like Nico and Torre who are on low wages loaning or selling with big % of future sale to one of the big 3 Portugal clubs is the way to go if we can't sell them directly to EPL.
BL is a good destination for attacking players too. Almost every player stats are inflated there.
Joan
Well-known member
Good post.
I was talking about it just yesterday. Might make sense loaning to Primera in case you counted on players in the future and wanted to prioritize development. Clubs like Betis might be a good option in such cases. But if you’re aiming to raise value and sell, Portugal is the best place.
Roque might be a better example than Fati.
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