maxjam Posted August 5, 2021 Share Posted August 5, 2021 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kernow Posted August 5, 2021 Share Posted August 5, 2021 The one club man is no more... reports that he's left Barcelona as a new contract "cannot happen" Someone get Stephen Pearce on the phone and chuck a blank contract at him immediately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxjam Posted August 5, 2021 Author Share Posted August 5, 2021 Mel... if you want to win the fans back. Just sayin ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BramcoteRam84 Posted August 5, 2021 Share Posted August 5, 2021 Music to Mel’s ears!! With this and Harry Kane saga no way will the national media be interested in us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cam the Ram Posted August 5, 2021 Share Posted August 5, 2021 I think the only places he could end up now are PSG, Man City or a return to Barca if they work miracles and shift players like Coutinho, Pjanic, Dembele, Umtitti and maybe even Griezmann. Unless he decides to accept missing out on huge sums of money and return to finish his career in Argentina like he suggested he'd like to do a fair few years back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shuff264 Posted August 5, 2021 Share Posted August 5, 2021 Club statement reads that the contract was agreed but finances won't allow Wonder where he will end up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoyMac5 Posted August 5, 2021 Share Posted August 5, 2021 Economic obstacles? FFS he could probably buy Barcelona. I'd chose Curtis Davies over this money grabber EVERY day of the week. ck- 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TigerTedd Posted August 5, 2021 Share Posted August 5, 2021 21 minutes ago, Shuff264 said: Club statement reads that the contract was agreed but finances won't allow Wonder where he will end up So ’we’ll offer you $10billion.’ ‘Sounds good, I’ll stay.’ ’oh wait, we can’t actually afford $10billion.’ What a pointless contract negotiation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cannable Posted August 5, 2021 Share Posted August 5, 2021 (edited) 12 minutes ago, TigerTedd said: So ’we’ll offer you $10billion.’ ‘Sounds good, I’ll stay.’ ’oh wait, we can’t actually afford $10billion.’ What a pointless contract negotiation. They’re in a right mess, even worse than ourselves. The players they’ve managed to sign this summer can’t actually be registered. They could well be pottering around in mid-table in the not too distant future. Edited August 5, 2021 by cannable RoyMac5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bris Vegas Posted August 5, 2021 Share Posted August 5, 2021 28 minutes ago, RoyMac5 said: Economic obstacles? FFS he could probably buy Barcelona. I'd chose Curtis Davies over this money grabber EVERY day of the week. It's not the player that's in question here. Barcelona are in a complete mess. They need to get £172m off the wage bill. Barcelona can generate huge sums through sponsorship and merchandising to cover Messi's wages, similar to how Juventus have been able to afford Cristiano Ronaldo, the issue is their inability to comply with FFP. They're an incredible club who have been run disastriously for the past six years. That 2015 MSN side was so good, they resorted to spending an absolute fortune trying to replace Neymar who is another superstar who could generate all sorts of other income for the club. Griezmann, Coutinho, Dembele, Pjanic, Andre Gomes, Paco Alcacer, Paulinho, Malcolm, Lenglet, Neto and Braithwaite cost them over £600m and not one player would have made the Barcelona teams between 2009-2016. If it wasn't for Messi, Barcelona wouldn't have won any trophies over the past three years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoyMac5 Posted August 5, 2021 Share Posted August 5, 2021 (edited) 4 minutes ago, Bris Vegas said: If it wasn't for Messi, Barcelona wouldn't have won any trophies over the past three years. That wasn't the point. He could play for them for free and pay his tax bill. But he doesn't. He's bled them dry. So I'd rather have Curtis Davies at our club, who shows his concern for the staff employed by the club. I'm sure Messi doesn't know where his next meal is coming from. And I don't care if people think he's within his right s to demand as much as he can. Edited August 5, 2021 by RoyMac5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bris Vegas Posted August 5, 2021 Share Posted August 5, 2021 Also, say what you like about Liverpool, Chelsea and especially City's spending in recent years, but at least they have a decent young squad to show for it and trophies to boot. Barcelona without Messi aren't even an elite side anymore. Frankie De Jong, Pedri and Ter Stegen are probably their only real assets right now, with Jordi Alba, Pique and Sergio Busquets a few years past their best. Griezmann and Coutinho are playmakers in their own right. Why sign them when they already have the best playmaker in the world? As for the rest, they'd probably struggle to get in a top six side in England Mostyn6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bris Vegas Posted August 5, 2021 Share Posted August 5, 2021 3 minutes ago, RoyMac5 said: That wasn't the point. He could play for them for free and pay his tax bill. But he doesn't. He's bled them dry. So I'd rather have Curtis Davies at our club, who shows his concern for the staff employed by the club. I'm sure Messi doesn't know where his next meal is coming from. And I don't care if people think he's within his right s to demand as much as he can. Why would he play for free? He doesn't owe Barcelona anything. I believe he has offered to halve his wages, and they're still unable to come to an agreement. His current wages are astronomical but Barca surely earn more than their fair share due to his presence. You surely don't buy players or pay silly wages if you aren't going to profit from them, either financially or in a sporting sense. It's not ike Barca were held to ransom over his wages. If Messi was pushing the bar too high, Barca could have sold him for a world record fee (probably over £300m) prior to signing his last contract. RoyMac5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mostyn6 Posted August 5, 2021 Share Posted August 5, 2021 Where will he go? Will he follow big money and go to a third rate league? Or will he try the challenge of the PL? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramslad1992 Posted August 5, 2021 Share Posted August 5, 2021 I heard Stoke are getting him, there will be a clause in his contract to say he doesn’t have to play tuesday games though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoetheRam Posted August 5, 2021 Share Posted August 5, 2021 Bet he doesn't leave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EtoileSportiveDeDerby Posted August 5, 2021 Share Posted August 5, 2021 4 hours ago, maxjam said: Mel... if you want to win the fans back. Just sayin ? We are dishing out contracts with no salary on it so we might be onto something there... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rynny Posted August 5, 2021 Share Posted August 5, 2021 3 hours ago, RoyMac5 said: That wasn't the point. He could play for them for free and pay his tax bill. But he doesn't. He's bled them dry. So I'd rather have Curtis Davies at our club, who shows his concern for the staff employed by the club. I'm sure Messi doesn't know where his next meal is coming from. And I don't care if people think he's within his right s to demand as much as he can. RoyMac5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leeds Ram Posted August 5, 2021 Share Posted August 5, 2021 Messi is a fantastic player and his numbers are still extremely good but he's not going to get any better. His salary even for someone as good as he is really is monstrous. If he really wanted to stay there he could have let's be honest, offering to halve your 70 million dollar a year salary is a nice gesture but for a club that financially is in the toilet he could have done more than that if he wanted to. He could play for free and he'd still earn an absolute fortune in sponsorships. Research tends to suggest after 60k a year the relationship between money and happiness delinks and he's not going to run dry anytime soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramarena Posted August 5, 2021 Share Posted August 5, 2021 1 hour ago, JoetheRam said: Bet he doesn't leave. Yeah this could be just a strategic announcement to pile pressure on the powers that be at La Liga to change the rules in the hope they don’t want to lose the star of the show. They’ve even got players like Aguero who they can’t register! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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