Wonder if this improves chances of De Ligt to 'Pool FFS
Antoine Griezmann signs for Barcelona or maybe not?
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I know everyone is assuming Barca and everything does point that way but...
Isn't this exactly the kinda marquee signing we would go for? Plus he's good mates with Pogba so might make him feel a bit happier about staying.
Don't want to get my hopes up but there's a voice inside tempting me...!
Isn't this exactly the kinda marquee signing we would go for? Plus he's good mates with Pogba so might make him feel a bit happier about staying.
Don't want to get my hopes up but there's a voice inside tempting me...!
How does Barca have so much money? They spent 100m on Dembele and another 100m on Coutinho, and now another 100m on Griezmann?
Not that our club is well run, but their situation is different.
Messi is 31 years old, several other key players are over 30 - they are going all-in for the CL trophy. There is no time for "let’s give them another year to see if they can progress"
De Ligt and de Jong are great future investment too though.
He plays Messi's position so not sure why Barca are buying him. Maybe he's off to Real
Hazard and him should announce live, together their decisions or las decisiones.
Reported by the Di Marzio camp that he is in discussion with Barca
It’s very simple. You forget
A) The Rakuten deal
B) The Nike deal
C) The Neymar money which combined with Barca’s annual transfer budget was more than enough to buy Dembele and Coutinho
D) Selling players such as Paco, Gomes, Mina etc. with now Coutinho and possibly Rakitic out too.
Likely a Luis Suarez replacement in length ngu term. Luis Suarez is on decline as is.
Agent P with our saviour?
No.
Agent P is leaving the sinking ship
La bellend.
Winning the league every year must have helped. They are so dominant there. So yeah probably by winning trophies.
Thanks, good to know.
And now he'll say "I'm going to take my talents to east beach"
Coutinho and Dembélé were paid by Neymar, the rest is within their means. They have big commercial deals and win lots of prize money.
This is absolutely insane. Barcelona's wage bill will be nearly twice as big as clubs like Real Madrid... 
I guess they're trying to make an insane investment to get the best out of Messi's last years?
I guess they're trying to make an insane investment to get the best out of Messi's last years?
How about football money being put back into football operations, meaning they can really spend? They would need to sell to fund transfer, mind? And Neymar release up front cash helps too. However the underlying point is their board has to take responsibilities with the playing, and managing staffs means they are forced to continue in this game. It's well within their mean in the whole scheme of thing. It's not like they're spenind the same way every summer. There would always other years of spending less. The thing is they wouldn't leave their team incomplete.
No players in La Masia?
Possibly gettable for us?Or reality is that no club can forcefully produce world class player on consistent basis, let alone world best players in their position and have this "X way". As it stands, the best clubs of their time adapt to the situation at the time. SAF and Man Utd used to be evil spending expensive vs a romantic Wenger Arsenal building on budget.
Thing is, when was the last time a good player came out of there. Seems like eternity.
Perfect fit for Barca with this character.
Oh how our fortunes may of been different had Madrid not got that transfer ban and we got Griezmann instead of Lukaku
Who gives a shit. He's worked hard to be an amazing footballer and earned the right to look around of he so pleases. He can go anywhere he wants pretty much because he's really good. Most of the best players nowadays do this. Ronaldo, Hazard etc all steer for the move that's best for their own needs and that's fine.
La decision. He's such a la cnut, detestable prick, honestly.
You jinxed it... Now we're buying him...
Less than a year after LA DECISIÓN
What a joker. Wonder if we’ll get a sequel.
He’ll fit right in at Barca.
That's the whole point, isn't it. Find the young talent in itself is a task in itself before talking about developing young talent to be a first team player. Barcelona standard is very high in recent time. We talk about what used to be Dream Team line up back in the days where talents was more scattered.
Sergi Roberton is good enough first team players without that high expectation. Kinda like Fletch vs class of 92 for our version.
Revenue. But they have taken large loans.
I don't think Lukaku transfer is directly related to Griezmann. Lukaku is more about the Zlatan injury. Griezmann was meant to be upgrade on Mkitaryan/Alexis kind.Oh how our fortunes may of been different had Madrid not got that transfer ban and we got Griezmann instead of Lukaku
mes que un knobhead
Wouldn't have had the funds for both though and Griezmann would definitely of been Ed's first choice
Also that he was all but set to join Utd according to many journalists and ended up staying at AM when they were handed a transfer ban.
What's the point of staying with Atleti then when he could have left a year ago?
this fall i'm taking my talents to River Irwell, and joining Manchester United
Griezmann is that commercial signing, where Ed would be happy to go overboard. Remember how that brief went about this club would be happy to spend 100 mil on Varane but sign noone else for same position.
Dembele is safe. Coutinho and Malcolm are not.
Griezmann will take over Suarez's starting berth