Brightonian
Full Member
The Guardian are probably the only newspaper telling it how it is...that he is probably using the link with us to get a bigger salary at Barca along with assurances that he will get a certain amount of games which they will give him as they are desperate to keep him..his preference is to stay at Barca if they give him what he is looking for...its simply not going to happen...Xavi is 33 years old....Barca need Thiago to replace him in the nearish future
http://m.guardian.co.uk/football/2013/jun/21/manchester-united-barcelona-thiago-alcantara
Rather than just assuming that the one paper which doesn't think it's going to happen is right, I tend to trust the Spanish papers, particularly MD and Sport, because they actually know what's going on at Barca. And for a long time now, the unanimous understanding in the Spanish press has been that he is leaving, but that Barca are going to make it difficult by insisting on the tax clauses etc.