At that money? Just no. No player is worth that much, simple as that. Besides it just won't happen, so it's all moot.
Messi?
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) and Imran (@Annihilate Now!) are here to discuss Amad saving our blushes in a win against Southampton as well as our now annual loss at home to Brighton. They discuss Amorim's post-match comments, revisit how mid-table we may or may not be, and discuss some transfer news.
fecking hell, people saying no to lionel messi 
If he is ever available, for a price that we can pay, even if that is £200m, then we have to do everything we can to get him. He's arguably the best player of all time ffs, and though ronaldo has been better the last year or 2, at his best he is a better player and the best of all time for me. It's not like he'd have no space in our team either, our way forward imo is a 4-3-3, with Rooney, di Maria and one other as the front 3. Just imagine messi there
Never going to happen though, he'll either retire at Barca or move back to Argentina before he is done.
If he is ever available, for a price that we can pay, even if that is £200m, then we have to do everything we can to get him. He's arguably the best player of all time ffs, and though ronaldo has been better the last year or 2, at his best he is a better player and the best of all time for me. It's not like he'd have no space in our team either, our way forward imo is a 4-3-3, with Rooney, di Maria and one other as the front 3. Just imagine messi there
Never going to happen though, he'll either retire at Barca or move back to Argentina before he is done.
Just scored a hattrick. At his age I'd happily play €100 million, but nothing more. Doubt he'll be leaving any time soon though, isn't he also the highest paid footballer?
I knew that we have rich people on Caf, but this much?
Wasn't bad today.
We should be looking to the next 5-10 years and building a squad with slightly younger players who will be here for much of that time. The likes of Strootman, Depay, Varane etc
He was like but he would halt Lukaku's development to much so i'm going to pass.
Also, Naismith might go to bench. Not sure that I would have paid 100 million for Messi right now, to be fair.
just not good enough.
Won't somebody please think of the children..... whose development he is going to block.
Obviously we won't buy him but for 200 million I would
Nah he has declined massively.lel
FFP is the elephant in the room here. 200m and a 5 year contract at 350 pounds p/w say.. That's 40m pounds a year less the clubs can spend. Most of them are already borderline, amortizing fees from previous years. + wages and that is a big hit to spending power for any club
I think it would take beyond the € 250M buyout clause. According to my knowledge buyout clause means the player can buy himself out of his contract. If the selling club doesn't want to block the player's move they will accept the money from the buying club but that actually depends on their good will (Bayern technically didn't pay the buyout clause for Thiago, they negotiated a slightly higher fee because of the good relations between the clubs). Practically Barca could just as well block any negotiations and demand the player buys himself out of his own contract (see Javi Martinez saga). Issue is: Players don't have € 30M, € 40M, € 50M cash lying around (in this case even € 250M). So then the buying club might proceed to give the money to the player in privat so he can use it to buy himself out but this leads to tax issues obviously as this might fall under income tax (not sure if there is any precedent, I don't think it's been 100 % revealed how Bayern did it, if Bayern paid more, Athletic just caved in and accepted the money or ...?).
Anyway, he's not leaving Barca and even € 250M with the wages he will demand seems far fetched. I know € 80M is the new € 40M but € 250M ... Seriously.
Anyway, he's not leaving Barca and even € 250M with the wages he will demand seems far fetched. I know € 80M is the new € 40M but € 250M ... Seriously.
A waning messi is still more productive than anyone not named Ronaldo. And Ronaldo is 2/3 Years older.
FFP basically ensures that only United and Real Madrid can afford that package.
I'd imagine if we ever were interested in getting him, Adidas would help massively. He's their number 1 player, and we've already got the number 2 in di Maria.
Would never happen though.
Would never happen though.
It's over lads. Cock in.
He doesn't look very happy at Barca in this current climate. I don't think he will retire there, if he moves though, It'll be Bayern I think.
Would love to have him in the Premier League, even though I reckon it'd render Chelsea unstoppable.
I'd rather him retire at the end of the season than join Chelsea.
I think he should move too unless they sign a top manager quickly.
Ew. This would be absolutely horrible if it happened.
Which Russian club was it that activated his clause, and offered him 500k a week?
As if.Have you seen the upheaval in recent days? Zubizarreta and Puyol have left today, Barca can't sign anyone for a year, Messi has tax problems.
Anzhi?
Probably them, there was a while they were batshit with money.
What the hell do his tax problems have to do with anything?
Yea, Barca can't sign anyone for a year, so the obvious thing for them to do is sell 95% of their goal production to raise money they can't spend.
The lowest he'd cost is 100 million and then his wages on top of that would be on £371,200 (including tax, not that he'd pay it though). Chelsea cannot afford those numbers, no matter how well they do this season or next. Us on the other hand...
Doesn't the transfer ban stop them selling too?
Buy him.
Huh?
I don't think Chelsea or City could afford him at this moment in time with FFP. Who else is there for him to realistically join? Bayern? I can't see him at PSG. It's more likely than not him being the big man he is and using his power to get his new manager sacked.
They can afford it by selling Hazard to us
We are getting him.
We need a RB and CB. Do not want.