You can't officially agree terms with a player without agreeing the terms with the team.
Or more likely thy are speaking nonsense.
Thiago Alcantara | Signed for Bayern Munich
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You can't officially agree terms with a player without agreeing the terms with the team.
Or more likely thy are speaking nonsense.
Yeah but this is also the "news outlet" that brought us Rooney to Newcastle, well I think it was anyway.
Yes it is. A nonsense source.
Indeed. Though we've no proof the Press Association said anything of the sort.
I'd take that with a pinch of salt tbh man. Marca & pretty much everyone else are reporting he's off to us - just hasnt done the deal yet...
http://www.marca.com/2013/06/26/en/football/barcelona/1372228346.html
Barça gives up on Thiago
06/26/2013
Thiago Alcántara is now enjoying his holidays following success in the U-21 European Championships where he not only played a starring role in the final, scoring a hat-trick, but was named as player of the tournament. Barcelona, meanwhile, is waiting on official confirmation of something it has been expecting for some time now: that Thiago is to leave.
The 'Azulgrana' club does not hold out much hope that the academy player will stay. Everything points to his departure despite some of his teammates, such as Xavi, Piqué and Cesc, asking him to be patient. The player's mind seems to be made up and it is now just a matter of time before the official announcement.
Thiago has a firm offer from Manchester United which, according to 'The Daily Mail' is prepared to pay him €6 million a season in a five-year contract. The player will therefore be given star status and the minutes he wants. The fact that he still has not signed for the English club is not because he is considering staying at Barcelona, but down to possible interest from Bayern Munich.
The €18 million the club would collect for Thiago would be a welcome boost to the club's coffers with a view to tackling the new signings considered as priorities, such as that of the other Thiago: Thiago Silva.
Southampton chairman didn't want to sell to us. That was why we missed out on him.U can add Bale to that list aswell man. If memory serves - we wouldnt pay him the same wages as Spuds. I knew then, that could turn out to be a massive feck-up on our part & it has, because how good would we have been in the past few seasons with him in the team - especially since Ronnie left, he could have been the difference in gettin another Champions League title we missed out on
Out of curiosity I typed in "thiago united barca" into twitter search and found an interesting tweet:
Who is this bloke? Ben Fairthorne @BFairthorne 1h
On the advice of his agent Thiago has today told Barcelona he wants to leave the club for Manchester United.
Anyone familiar with him?
Who is this bloke? Ben Fairthorne
On the advice of his agent Thiago has today told Barcelona he wants to leave the club for Manchester United.
Anyone familiar with him?
Nah man - Cider would have a contract out on him due to all the expense we went through with his wummin!
So is it likely that he told them he wants to leave? This is getting daft now, I thought it was said that he was on holiday?
Only to know that I love him.
Probably his Mum & Dad man
"Worked for CNN, Base Soccer, The Sun, IPC Media, and Frank PR. Worked at football agency with predominately Arsenal and Spurs players." apparantly....
Marca using DM as a source 
DM used them as a source
DM used them as a sourceApart from the Ozil and Mourinho to United stories, none of them are particularly bad?
So is this another peak and trough in the Thiago saga?
No but he has over 11k followers and speaks spanish.
He also speaks Australian & American too - if the reports are to be believed
Marca using DM as a source
Only sourced DM on the apparent wages. The rest is their article.
Bayern worry me more than Barcelona do, hope to god they stay out of this. Glad we haven't heard too much about PSG sniffing around either. If Thiago goes somewhere else and we end up with Fellaini I will genuinely cry.
Ahh feck it this is too confusing. I'll be back when there's official confirmation.
Yeah i seen a link to "Fake Stories" with his name attributed to it, when i did a Google search on the bloke.. so thats probably the same one!
Interesting article that tho.. havent finished readin it all, but they're doin a job on him by the looks of it!
These people are saying that he told Barca, in a meeting, that he's leaving. Just a few days ago he went on holiday. Who knows what to believe.
I thought we used to have an affiliated thread to a transfer target purely for posting Twitter feeds & articles etc?
That would save a helluva lot hassle in seeing whats bein put out there atm
Jesus, how long does it take to tell Barca to go feck themselves. Get Mazinho on it, he's the only fecker who is working on this deal.
The fun in this thread stopped when De Gea stopped doing things. Come on David, gatecrash Thiago's holiday or something!
feck knows tbh man. Its keepin us on our unpatient toes thats for sure...
Seems like he must've had a bit of a telling off from United, the way he back tracked and wrote it off as 'jokez lol'. Can't wait to see his troll-face when he finally signs.
Quite possibly alright... or maybe his work is done & Thiago is signing with us?!
Yeah fair enough.
As a rule of thumb, take tweets with an excessive use of hash-tags and from a user with little followers with a massive pinch of salt. They're more likely looking for followers.
You're better at photoshoping than in tweets
Well, if he hasn't signed by the time I'm off on holiday, then I'll be like...
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