Neymar isn't within our financial reach, hence why we're not signing him.
Neymar joins PSG on a five year deal
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The events happened so far are more than enough to vindicate that Di Marzio was damn right after all. Many on here turned on him for reporting this. Now will they stand up like a man (or a women) and accept that they were wrong?
Well Dembele has just turned 20 and looks quality already so there's every chance he could reach similar heights over the next few years. Obviously there's no guarantee on that and I do agree that maybe Barca need some work in other positions.
Is he your boyfriend or something?
PSG can afford to pay upfront. We can't. This has nothing to do with perisic.
Really odd post.
Do you think our financial reach stops at Perisic and Dier/Matic?
Do you know how PSG are offering to buy him compared to our bid for him a few years ago? We can only afford if in installments, and that too for a single marquee player a window (seemingly).
PSG according to reports are offering upfront payments and haven't broken the 100m spending mark at all this window. We just bought Lukaku for 90m and will need another midfielder. We also bought Lindelof. We cannot compete economically with PSG if they want neymar this window.
Find yours odd too, saying we need to aim higher doesn't equate to, 'we need to do exactly what PSG are doing'. I acknowledged in the post, 'we don't need to bid 200m on players to do this.
For you to read it as a demand that we sign Neymar is weird.
Our ambitions this window have looked very, very low. If we go into the season with current squad and a DM, a battle for 4th again will be the outcome.
BBC has interesting article on the financial aspect ,FFP and repercussions of a possible Neymar transfer.
http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/40690701
http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/40690701
Would absolutely love to have Neymar at United, but at the price that is being mentioned, I think Woody is being smart in not getting involved. Neymars wages will destabilize the whole club.
so, is this really happening or nah?
I'd love to see him at United but I would be shitting myself every transfer window as he seems the type to throw his toys out of the pram if things aren't going his way.
I personally would prefer him to go to PSG than stay at Barca as it would level the playing field in europe in that Barca would weaken albeit PSG getting stronger. Whether the move to PSG will benefit his career is another story. He may well be richer have more power but he will not be regarded as one the best players ever in my opinion (unless he wins PSG 3 champions leagues or something).
I personally would prefer him to go to PSG than stay at Barca as it would level the playing field in europe in that Barca would weaken albeit PSG getting stronger. Whether the move to PSG will benefit his career is another story. He may well be richer have more power but he will not be regarded as one the best players ever in my opinion (unless he wins PSG 3 champions leagues or something).
The entire discussion on structuring of the payment to Barca is moot, since PSG are activating the release clause of Neymar, the payment has to be made in full for the transfer to go through.
Why would I think that when it's obviously untrue? No one believes that, I don't see your point.
Well there's also a rumor that they're trying to negotiate a structured payment with Barca instead, which is why the deal hasn't happened yet. No idea if there's any truth in it though.
PSG must have offered to buy Neymar's sister a sunbed.
Unless PSG is willing to include Veratti in any deal, don't see Barca agreeing to a structured payment. I mean, why should they? They have nothing to gain from agreeing to receive the payment in installments.
Whether they make structured payment or upfront, in accounts it's calculated diffrrently.
You used neymar as an example to show there are better players you can get than Perisic etc.. But conceed we can't really get Neymar. Name the available wingers for me then?
So apparently PSG may have to sell after buying Neymar in order to comply with FFP restrictions. We should ask Mino Raiola if he has any talents over there we could bid for........
Woodward should be all over this......didnt he say he wanted the best players to come to the premier league. He should be going all out for him this would be a game changer
Yeah, football clubs usually amortize the fee paid over the term of the contract of the player.
The point that I was trying to make, rather poorly, was that the article assumed 100M being paid upfront and the balance being structured per an agreement to be reached with Barca, which is a needless assumption to make.
If the deal goes through at this price, I can one day foresee the first 360 million pound player.
for 222million euro? No thank you... We're not THAT rich.
How?
We can't afford him.
So are we officially at the stage, where we know he´s going to PSG, but Barcelona still wants to pretend they are broke, while trying to sign Coutinho, Dybala or Dembele? 
Can we keep this discussion on PSG please and stop with the "Woodward should be all over this" nonsense. There are so many factors that makes him literally unattainable for us.
They are.
His father reportedly has a sell on clause which could net them as much as €40m.
You are joking right? He'd have signed a pre-contract with City before the end of next season
The total amount might be greater, depending on how much premium PSG would be willing to pay for convenience. Unless Barca plan to spend the money straight away they'd probably be better off accepting it. But they might decide to be stubborn just to make it difficult for PSG.
I have heard this many times that the main reason why Madrid don't look at Veratti or at any of the main players at PSG is because they know PSG will not only reject the offer but will pummel the likes of Madrid trying to take their best players off them as money is no object for them.
Always figured it was just a way of hyping up someone's clout but guess I was wrong. PSG did take it personally when Barca tapped up Veratti and went crazily after Neymar.
There's also the question of the sell-on fee payable to Santos/Neymar's father. I am sure Barca would want PSG to bear that payment.
The more I think, the more it seems to me that a structured deal will take too much time to negotiate and be overly complex for both parties.
I just replied similarly. Madrid, the masters of trying to unsettle players, stayed well clear of PSG as they always made it clear they will not take kindly to it. They are owned by the Royal family. Pretty sure they take it as an insult for trying to unsettle anyone at their plaything
Not to mention that you could see Neymar's family's demands growing every week this deal is delayed.
That's just fantasy, the reality is that PSG don't answer to the phone, so it's useless to go after a player that they didn't put on the transfer market.
And PSG aren't after Neymar because of Verratti, they have wanted a player like Neymar forever.
Agree with your sentiment, though Perisic might be exactly what Jose wants. In which case we shouldn't have haggled for so long.
It's happening. 
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