Thiago Alcantara | Signed for Bayern Munich
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Only just seen this. Amazing!
It is. But on 3 years time it could look like 'Steve and Nando' on RAWK if things go wrong.
it won't, his price is going to fly up now after his performances at the Euro U21's.
I hear Thiago has been cropped out of Mazinho's restaurant which he has sold to Manchester United for £17.5 million.
We're actually buying the restaurant?
It's part of the deal according to some sources on twitter.
It was pictured wearing a United shirt as a young restaurant so the writing was on the wall, basically.
Agreed, though I specifically remember reading quite a few posters coming across more critical of the club, as opposed to Pogba.
I have no idea what you're on about.
The restaurant is only rated 2.9 stars. Poor.
All that excitement today was over nothing then. The Sport article quotes and tweets were stretching the truth of what was actually said in the article, whilst instagram forced Thiago to be cropped.
I am sure that images can be resized. Anyone with a computer can do that. So instagram didn't force Thiago to be cropped, it's bollocks.
I don't get it. You're criticizing a player for choosing a better contract at another club? Your offer might very well have been the fairest in the world, if another club offers him a disproportionate deal - to the benefit of the player - how can you criticize him for accepting it?
The guy is a footballer not a chef, what do you expect?
Because he was totally serious.
I was joking too Solius 
If Instagram forced the cropping, wouldn't it completely centre the photo? The cropping is conveniently cutting out the small area of empty space next to Puyol and a large area next to Pique which includes some empty space, and all of Thiago. It's definitely a manipulated photo, I reckon.
I'm pretty certain we offered a similar package that juventus did.
I was joking too Solius
Ugh. I can't tell who's stupid anymore.
Do you just not get that clubs invest time and effort into their youth players? If you devote your resources to helping them develop and then they piss off for far less than their value with the club unable to do anything, it's very frustrating.
It isn't just all about the player and how much they can get, as quickly as they can get it.
I guess as a Porto fan you just see players as a commodity, and don't really get the United nurturing culture..
Yep, It would not cut 3/4 of the photo from the left and leave the right conveniently there. Could you imagine if that was Messi cropped out the photo?, they would re-do the whole thing.
Its clear as day to me that he is now off.
A bit like how it must have been for Le Havre.
So is everyone spent now?
Save some for tomorrow...
Save some for tomorrow...
yep, I don't think it's cool to exploit loopholes to steal players when we do it or when other clubs do it. Le Harve had every right to be pissed, as do we.
You wont find those type of muppets in this thread thats for sure...
Different type of muppet runs amuck in this one
My clubs nurturing culture has been destroyed by the money culture in football and the advent of the all-powerful big leagues. Porto won the CL in 1987 with a team that was not only majorly composed of Portuguese players, but of whom the majority were born in Porto and its neighboring towns. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1987_European_Cup_Final Had it been nowadays and none of those players would be here by 22. So we had to adopt and start preying on weaker south american clubs, much like bigger European clubs prey on it's less powerful continental counterparts. What has the insistence in a nurturing culture brought Sporting CP for example? 7th on the table last season, with their best prospect apparently refusing to renew a contract with them on the chance of fecking off cheaper to Chelsea or whatever.
Get out of your high horse.
Pogba was an instrumental player in Juventus midfield and earned his first caps for the French National team. You people are suggesting he should have exchanged this for being a back-up option at United. Point is, Juventus needed him more than United so they've offered him better guarantees than United. Not everyone wants to go the Cleverley route. I understand the later will be more appreciated by the fans, but he won't necessarily have a happier career than Pogba. That depends on what each of them wants. And a football player in the beginning of his career should have the freedom to make these decisions.
We also have a Cleverely here at Porto. His name is Castro. He's a hard working kid that wishes nothing but succeed here and the fans love him. Yet now that we sold Moutinho we didn't chose to bet on him for that spot, even though Moutinho himself guarantees that Castro might be ready. No, we paid 10m gor a Mexican player to play Moutinho's role. Another season of bench warming awaits Castro.
Apparently this guy has just been born, could be quite good some day seeing as he's the son of Mazinho.
I'm downing tools for the day, somebody let me know if he's spotted in Manchester later tonight.
Sol, Sparky - you know where to get me!
Sol, Sparky - you know where to get me!
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water.
Two heavies drive Thiago and his dad out to an abandoned airfield an hours drive from Barcelona. A small executive jet lands, we keep the engines running while Glazer gets out with a bag of plain used 50 Euro notes. Thiago is led blindfold to his seat in the plane, strapped in and sedated. We fly out. His dad is released once they've checked the money.
Whats this about a photo from a restaurant? Was it Nandos?
Cos he was our player... simple!
A much more sensible answer than what Drainy said.
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