More bullshit. There's no way we'd spend this long chasing a player who literally has to be forced out of the club via media leaks from his own club. It'd be beyond stupid to waste so much time.
Frenkie de Jong | The last muppeting lap
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More bullshit. There's no way we'd spend this long chasing a player who literally has to be forced out of the club via media leaks from his own club. It'd be beyond stupid to waste so much time.
Well, that went cold all of a sudden. Who is next?
You really don't think we're capable of such a thing? Given what we've experienced over the last 10 years?! Come on.... There isn't a more likely club in the world then us to do such a thing. Di Maria, Ramos... You must remember? There's probably many more.
Apparently Barca have secured significant funds.. so might not need to sell de Jong
Of course they need to sell. Pay attention.
They’ve just made £700m, if the story is true.
That doesn't suddenly make them financially stable and able to sign new players
Someone should have told Ed Woodward.
Still expect this one to happen, but sadly this thread is one of the most negative muppet threads I've experienced in years. Some of you don't deserve a big day today.
Abnormally humongous day today
The €1bn is just the TV revenue. Surely the merchandise is at least that again. So a €600m loan over 25 years would not cost €2bn. Can’t polish a turd of a deal mate.
All this noise is coming from Barca… almost like they’re trying to get the highest price possible.
But my word, that tweet will be taken as gospel.
But my word, that tweet will be taken as gospel.
Hopefully it's all coming from them and we are actually working on other things.
They got dept between €1.3 - 1.6 billion. A lot of that dept is also internal dept, meaning employees.
The deal will also see them miss out on yearly revenue. It’s not selling a player or an asset you don’t need anymore. It’s a revenue stream they need.
They got high internal costs; €560m in player salaries.
So the money they made will help them short term, but they need to get rid of more dept. Selling players and reduce salaries is key. They got players for free in, but they will obviously also earn money. They also want to invest in new players.
Barcelona is in deep shit and must be very careful year after year to make things right.
Funny how friendly media is turning the narrative from 'we need to sell, the player has come around to the idea of working with ETH again' to 'Barca are in control, the player doesn't want to leave, we're just creating an environment where has to because we don't want him anymore'
The source is Tier 1 for Barca news according to Reddit.
We are an incredibly stupid, ineptly run football club though. Don't give us too much credit.
Most of these tweets are poorly worded translations though. He's saying it may not be economically necessary ( doubtful that's true) but Barca still want Bernardo which implies they still want to sell Frenkie. Nothing really earth shattering in that tweet.
All the positive stuff about this deal is coming from the more reliable sources, until that changes, I don't really see much need to panic.
Of course it will, only negative tweets are believed on the Caf.
So basically they still need to sell to rebuild the team. Otherwise they are stuck with De Jong and no new players.
Also the purchase of a Bernardo Silva would require him being cheaper than De Jong, which City will not do and are not desperate like us.
Also the purchase of a Bernardo Silva would require him being cheaper than De Jong, which City will not do and are not desperate like us.
People tweeting these need to start thinking of the caf members.
Well, for once we better have a back up plan that we're working on
From what I understand selling De Jong was never saving the club, they needed that big injection to stay afloat. De Jong needs to go for footballing reasons, as they need money from his sale, or another big sale, so they can make changes to the team. So I don't get why people think that news about the 500m or whatever is a killer for this deal?
Unless I'm totally misreading it all.
Unless I'm totally misreading it all.
I posted the more positive (for us) translation in this thread but both translations I've seen tweeted in the transfer tweets thread. Wanted to spare the Muppets feelings.
I don’t think this means anything with regards to Barcelona being open to sell. What it might mean is that united opaque strategy that seems to come out of the same handbook every transfer, might need to change if we are going to sign Frenkie. What do Barca want for the player, can we get near it? If not, sadly we must move on quite quickly.
The word has been for a while that Xavi wants to keep him and only accepts his sale for economic reasons. It's just whether they still need to sell for economic reasons but Laporte was recently saying this financial deal will change everything and allow them to compete in the market, or words to that effect.
This one is dead in the water.
Correct. One sale would never help them out. One sale can help them reinvest in new players and salaries. Though, they should probably sell some assets in form of players and sit still in the boat for some time. They are a football club though and need new blood as everyone else.
Eriksen the guy who doesn’t play in his position
He’s not his backup option though. He is as well as according to reports.
Source is Nicolò Schira who is banned.
He's tier 1 so tend to think we are going to need a backup plan now as someone just said
Being tier 1 doesn’t mean that everything is true. It just means that it’s likely to come from the club or a well-connected source. So if the club were to plant fake stories or stories that they want put out that would increase offers from interested clubs they would also do that through tier 1 sources.
Andy Mitten, who has decent sources in Barcelona said yesterday that Barcelona cannot put anything more than the profits made off of player sales towards new players. That makes a lot more sense as to why they are dragging their feet in trying to make a profit off of this sale as FdJ is the only player they can afford to sell and also make that profit.
I don't see why everyone is seeing that ffpolo update as a negative? The subtext is fairly obviously that, whilst Barca no longer need to sell De Jong to help avoid financial disaster, they'd still be willing to do so in order to bring in Bernardo Silva.
He's NOT saying "the deal is dead" at all.
Feels like some users only want to see the negative in anything at the moment.
He's NOT saying "the deal is dead" at all.
Feels like some users only want to see the negative in anything at the moment.
We could try Tielemanns
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