Reply With QuoteHe's going to Spurs so Man City can buy Kane.
He's going to Spurs so Man City can buy Kane.
that'd be a dream ahaOriginally Posted by Onelasttime
He's going to Spurs so Man City can buy Kane.
Thought La Liga had sorted out a new TV deal giving away 10% with clubs like Barcelona receiving 200 million-odd euros
He’s going to Man City to partner Kane 😂He's going to Spurs so Man City can buy Kane.
Should have called this thread ‘would you pay over the top for an ageing striker’.
PSG or City? Can City afford Grealish, Kane and Messi. They have become the new Real Madrid - every top footballer in the world is on their way to City
Is he actually on 2million a week?
£2.1 million, with all the image rights, etc. thrown in. Crazy!
100m a year yeah
I’d planned to go see him play this season, I hope he doesn’t go to China or the US as that will scupper my plan
Reading on a football forum is this something to do with the so called super league and a wage cap?
Sorry all this greed gets a bit confusing
Hopefully Ryan Reynolds can persuade him to join Wrexham
Correct they’ll just do the cheat sponsorship again and again.Should have called this thread ‘would you pay over the top for an ageing striker’.
PSG or City? Can City afford Grealish, Kane and Messi. They have become the new Real Madrid - every top footballer in the world is on their way to City
Grealish gone to City for 100m so that’s one option gone. PSG or remain at Barca is my feeling
City can’t actually afford any of them. The owners can by sponsoring themselves at over inflated sponsorship deals.Should have called this thread ‘would you pay over the top for an ageing striker’.
PSG or City? Can City afford Grealish, Kane and Messi. They have become the new Real Madrid - every top footballer in the world is on their way to City
This. I feel he’ll go to PSG so he can free-wheel all season and be as fresh as possible foe the WC that’s only 15 months away.
Plenty of piss boiling by fans of the usual suspects 😂😂😂
Bookies have it odds on he’s going
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Messi delivers season in season out. Don’t see the same comments about Ronaldo.Should have called this thread ‘would you pay over the top for an ageing striker’.
PSG or City? Can City afford Grealish, Kane and Messi. They have become the new Real Madrid - every top footballer in the world is on their way to City
if I was the City board I’d dump paying £150m for Kane, see Haaland as future signing in couple of years, use Kane transfer fee to pay Messi’s salary on 2 year contract. The increase in worldwide merchandise sales would be huge for City. Plus it would give all the other clubs fans the chance to say Guardiola only wins the CL with Messi
The problem with this scenario is that City were talking to Kane last year and he was willing to come . City held off because Messi was intimating that he would be open to a move when he was really just using the club to secure a better deal at Barca . This is the second time he’s done this . I just can’t see City’s board approving the approach when Kane has literally gone on strike trying to force a deal .Messi delivers season in season out. Don’t see the same comments about Ronaldo.
if I was the City board I’d dump paying £150m for Kane, see Haaland as future signing in couple of years, use Kane transfer fee to pay Messi’s salary on 2 year contract. The increase in worldwide merchandise sales would be huge for City. Plus it would give all the other clubs fans the chance to say Guardiola only wins the CL with Messi
I’d be happy with either of them but I demand both .
Lol. You can take Shaqiri off our hands as well while you’re at it.
Surprised Ings went to Villa. It is hardly much of a step up from Southampton and surely he could have gone to a bigger side? Particularly as Grealish has gone - Villa will struggle to get top half. He'd have walked into Arsenal, Spurs (assuming Kane goes) and Chelsea's teams so the choice is surprising
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Whoever he goes to wont see the best of him.
Best English team as a fit would be Liverpool or Man Utd but I think moving will rip his heart out.
I suspect this is Barca's way of making La Liga lift their restrictions so that Messi can stay. Losing Messi is bad news for La Liga, not just Barca
Not a chance in hell Liverpool would pay those wages
Not saying they would
Just mean more the type of club and playing style.
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Are you serious?? I prefer Messi over Ronaldo by a fair stretch, but that’s just clearly not true
Ronaldo has been a goal scoring machine since ‘07, as has Messi
Reckon MLS possibly with Beckham in Florida where Spanish is not a problem, weather is great and the South American/ Spanish culture would suit him.Middle of Winter away at the “toon”
Ryan i would have been happy to see Ings at Chelsea got to be better than that waste of space Werner and as to Lakaku all he is good for is carrying tourists in Santorini
I FEEL LIKE I'M DIAGONALLY PARKED IN A PARALLEL UNIVERSE
Sorry I was referring to the “ageing striker” comment and relating that to Ronaldo, not Ronaldo’s achievements.
Messi is 34 and will still give a club at least 2 years of world class football.
Most likely a million a week hope it's not united tbh
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Might be good value for the team if they can flog £100m of Messi Merch a year, plus extract some additional money from extended cup runs, etc.
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Mabe but another president when we try no renegotiate the next renewal this type of stupidity needs knocking on the head. Along with the watch flippers as well.
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He’s coming to Leicester isn’t he?
Have I missed something blindingly obvious? Why can't Barca and Messi agree to void the contract he signed and then agree a new one that Barca can afford?
Messi offered to take 50% pay cut but Laporta is saying even this isn’t enough to meet their spending cap set by La Liga… strange given that Messi said they’d reached an agreement. It’s either let Messi go or let multiple players go. They still can’t even register Aguero.
Barca and La Liga only have themselves to blame. Barca are €1bn in debt and should never have given Messi the contract he had added to the transfer fees and salaries for Coutinho and Griezman etc. But Tebas has to shoulder some responsibility. His spending cap hasn’t changed the marketability of La Liga…. it’s still between Barca and the two Madrids for the title. Yet he has the nerve to spout off about other clubs and leagues outside La Liga yet bizarrely has just been appointed onto a UEFA EXCO. Now he’s lost his main asset.
No chance in the PL. He would struggle with the quality of the teams in the PL, and because of that he wont come. He will head to PSG for the easy life playing second class opposition most weeks.
Done deal to PSG breaking on BBC
And he wore a RG YM40 on Oysterflex to sign the contract.
How many 100's of millions does he actually need in the bank, its time for him to show some love for the club, the city and the country that has been his home for so long rather than his bank balance.
Crocodile tears
He can’t lower heis salary more than 50% from previous years salary.
Spanish footballers labour agreement law prohibits it.
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He could not have stayed even if he wanted to, it's against Spanish employment law to take more than a 50% pay cut, and Barca's debt is such that they need much more than that off the books.
Only Messi will know if he's really upset to be leaving, but I don't think wages came into it.
I did not know this so I withdraw some of my previous ill informed comment. However, I believe he was trying to force a move away from Barca last year, but was "forced" to stay against his will. Which is rather at odds with his tearful performance of a couple of days ago.
I do not follow football as closely as I used to as the greed within the game appals me - the sooner the game goes bankrupt and has to re-invent itself the better as far as I am concerned.
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Wonder if Barca will follow suit.
Real Madrid launch lawsuits against La Liga president Javier Tebas https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58163731
Could he not have lowered his wages to say 600k a week then? I know it’s taking food out of his mouth and it might be a bit of a struggle for him but still….
It's all BS
Labour law wouldn't affect him he's a free agent, what he was on last year is irrelevant as that was a different contract, this is pure greed
To be honest, it's a real result for Barca, they get 100m a year off the books for a aging star and appease the fans by blaming la Liga
Qatar now have the poster boy for the world cup
Everyone's a winner
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I saw an article reporting that Barcelona are currently 1.18b in debt and that the wage bill was 110% of its annual income. With Messi leaving this reduced to only 103% of income.
A better business model, but less than ideal.
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