Transfers and Rumours - old thread

[LM10]

Still think we should try Doria. 13M buyout clause, seriously before Chelsea gets him and he ends up a world beater

Agreed. I had read that Chelsea were interested in him

 

[D10S_JC]

Just sign a defender. I won't mind anyone.

 

[Shegzy]

If we can't get an established cb then we should go for the next best thing that can be developed within 2-3years.we should have done this same thing instead of getting song.just sell song and get doria(brazil) and zouma(france) and hope they turn out like marquinhos(brazil) and varane(france).

 

[messid10s]

If we don't sign a CB

Only can save us hopefully he asked the Pope for divine intervention yesterday.

 

[Zincubus]

Worry not .. with Luiz being non-committal yesterday and Tata in a meeting as we speak - I'm confident about getting Luiz .

Even Graham Hunter said this morning that he thought we'd get Luiz BUT pay a very high price - he said the Barca board had screwed up in this transfer window .

@barcastuff: Martino is at the moment meeting with president Rosell and sports director Zubizarreta to discuss, among other things, the centre back issue

 

[ebc_99]

At this point we just need anyone to provide depth in defence, somebody who can rotate and do a solid job.

If we go another transfer window without a CB then Zubi should resign, It has been four years since the 2009 season when it was clear Barca needed a long term solution for its defence and here we are all this time later and still we have not found anyone suitable.

 

[ryuken]

We go from CB is a priority to 1 month for Silva to 1 month for Luiz to Agger to CB is not priority to Puyol is our new transfer, so much fail

 

[Dan1983]

I am at the point where I do not care who we sign for CB, as long as we get one.

 

[suckabov]

I'm still optimistic. Might be that the management is in fact more intelligent than we think and keeping its advanced pursuing of our soon-to-be new CB a secret to keep the media away. I doubt it, but it might be.

 

[Shegzy]

I'm still optimistic. Might be that the management is in fact more intelligent than we think and keeping its advanced pursuing of our soon-to-be new CB a secret to keep the media away. I doubt it, but it might be.

or planning to unleash adriano the cb.

 

[Flavia]

I'm still optimistic. Might be that the management is in fact more intelligent than we think and keeping its advanced pursuing of our soon-to-be new CB a secret to keep the media away. I doubt it, but it might be.

I wish I was this optimistic. I think we'll get no one. Tata seems to be satisfied with the players he has. I don't get how. And he doesn't want the club to overspend on a defender... this is a terrible, terrible decision. At least Mathieu should come.

 

[darthvader7888]

If we don't get a CB, Zubi should be sacked.

 

[aaron101]

cules should protest against Zubi and othets outside camp nou and asked them to step down.

 

[barca7788]

Usain Bolt, the fastest man in the world in the 100 meters … Zubizarreta, the slowest man in the world in signing a center back“Signal yet?”​

 

[oz187]

Yeah, if we're not gonna get a world class CB, we should at least get a potential one like Doria. Better than getting, say, Mathieu, who's 29 and will probably never be a starter.

Better to get someone like Mathieu who you know can do a job as 4th choice than get some youngster who turns out to be another Henrique/Keirrison and never plays for the club. With Puyol being at fairly high risk of injury the priority is a CB that can play NOW, not someone for the future.

However if Puyol avoids further injuries this season(which is a genuine possibility) then the club doesn't want to waste 50M on a player that doesn't get to play. So either you get someone that can compete for 1st choice(Thiago Silva) or you get someone cheap that's good enough for 4th choice.

Either way, the club can see that they won the league by a record margin with the defenders they have so in a sense it's not critical to get a defender. There's also options to improve the defense in terms of differing tactics(high press, use of double pivot) and also betting on players like Busquets and Mascherano not getting injured.