Is this like Barca's version of Pogba?
Thiago Alcantara | Signed for Bayern Munich
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Things have changed in fairness since they left Barcelona a few years ago.
It's a tough one for Thiago himself; the obvious move would be to stay and wait it out but he's that good that he should be up there with the best in the world right now.
It is, and it isn't. You know?
When they were embryos. Thiago is 22, a first-teamer at Barcelona, a full Spanish international and has just scored a hat-trick when captaining his country to European glory.
They'll make him promises in order to keep him, and personally, he'd rather stay I think if he was guaranteed games.
No not really.
It would be more like someone nicking Beckham off us when he was 22
MANCHESTER UNITED have emerged as favourites to sign Barcelona’s Spanish wonderkid Thiago Alcantara.
New Red Devils boss David Moyes has been a long-term admirer of the midfielder, 22, yet knew he was out of reach of former club Everton.
But the Premier League champions have also tracked Thiago for the past three years.
And they could now prove an irresistible draw for a player who has been frustrated by a lack of first-team action at Barca.
United are willing to offer Barca £15million in a bid to see off rivals Manchester City.
Thiago underlined his potential by bagging a first-half hat-trick in Spain’s 4-2 triumph over Italy to win the European Under-21 Championships last night.
The Spanish skipper headed a sixth-minute opener, blasted home a 31st-minute second and slotted a 38th-minute penalty in Israel.
New Red Devils boss David Moyes has been a long-term admirer of the midfielder, 22, yet knew he was out of reach of former club Everton.
But the Premier League champions have also tracked Thiago for the past three years.
And they could now prove an irresistible draw for a player who has been frustrated by a lack of first-team action at Barca.
United are willing to offer Barca £15million in a bid to see off rivals Manchester City.
Thiago underlined his potential by bagging a first-half hat-trick in Spain’s 4-2 triumph over Italy to win the European Under-21 Championships last night.
The Spanish skipper headed a sixth-minute opener, blasted home a 31st-minute second and slotted a 38th-minute penalty in Israel.
I won't get my hopes up...I won't get my hopes up...I won't get my hopes up...I won't get my hopes up...I won't get my hopes up...I won't get my hopes up...
'Willing to offer Barca £15million...'
The Sun joining the vast ranks of people who don't understand release clauses.
The Sun joining the vast ranks of people who don't understand release clauses.
How they can guarantee games in the first place? There is no chance that he's going to replace one of Xavi, Iniesta and Busquets, while with Neymar signing now Fabregas will play more games in the center midfield than in attack (like he did last season). They can probably give him a lot of games in the league, Champions League group stage and in the Cup, but when it comes to important games he'll be benched.
I'm sorry but if he ends up going to City after all this... I think 
would be the only reaction I'd be capable of
would be the only reaction I'd be capable ofHow do you suppose they will guarantee him games? He's not going to get more games than Busquets, Xavi, Iniesta and probably Fabregas - and he's directly competing with them (+others) for a position in Spain's World Cup squad.
He doesn't want guarantees for the future, he wants them for now.
You can just imagine us being so stupid as to try and knock a couple of million off the price for a month before another club comes in and nicks him off us.
He's not an idiot. Tito won't be able to just say to him 'don't worry, we're going to play you loads next season, honest'. Thiago knows that Barca's midfield is at least a few seasons still from leaving any gaps to be broken into. When the player is 18 or 19, the sensible advice is almost always 'be patient, stay put'. But he's 22. He won't want to be 24/25 before becoming a regular starter.
United are willing to offer Barca £15million in a bid to see off rivals Manchester City. Yep that will see off Mansour.The Sun..
Yeah, we're a stupid club alright.
Omg that is so Man Utd.
To be honest, Xavi's decline has already noticeably started and I think Thiago will be given a lot more play time than he was given last season no matter what, if he decides to stay.
I think a clause in his next contract like the one Lindegaard supposedly had could throw a spanner in the works for you guys.
Ronaldinho.
Peter Kenyon
When he moves here he can live with DDG for a while before buying his own place
Greatly exaggerated, from what I've seen. Plus - and I know you won't want to hear this, but nonetheless - when his decline starts he'll still have a few seasons before he gets down to everyone else's level.
If we can just get Thiago here, I won't be at all worried about losing him again. It's hard to exaggerate just how perfect club and player are for one another. He would get a huge amount of football and, I'm confident, help us to a huge amount of success. Very hard to leave that sort of situation. I doubt even Fabregas would have been so keen to get back to Barca if Arsenal had been winning the PL and challenging for trophies, and he's a born and bred Catalan.
Who was employed by.....?
Has Balague weighed in yet?
Different situation entirely. Kenyon did his best to feck us up that summer. Plus we were used to get him his move to Barca. He was never coming to United.
We just threw £15mil at Palace for a relatively unknown championship player. Why would we knob about over a few quid when signing a potential superstar like Thiago?
Ronaldinho admitted he had no preference when it came to joining us or barca, he'd agreed personal terms with both clubs. I'm not saying united would ever make that mistake again but then I'd never have expected them to make it in the first place.
No chance Barca will let him leave.
Isn't that the buy out clause? 18 million euros? If so once a club offers it then it is up to the player.
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They have no choice if the release clause is met and the player wants to go.
They have no choice if the release clause is met and the player wants to go.
Not sure about this. PSG president wasn't going to accept the Barca 27m offer and Kenyon understood that this was Barca's final offer. Kenyon and PSG's president made a gentleman agreement for 29m. When Kenyon returned at Manchester, United made a 28m offer. PSG president was infuriated in United for offering a million less that they made agreement, so he declined United offer and accepted Barca's offer although it was a million lower.
By the last owners.
Clueless. Get your facts straight you idiot. He also managed to feck up the Robben transfer by going back on a verbal agreement and putting in an official offer of £6m before he moved to Chelsea shortly after and threw the agreed £12m at them.
We were also PLC owned and had to act on behalf of the shareholders who had a board acting in their interests and needed convincing every time we needed to raise a bid. Very different to how the Glazers sanction transfers.
They won't have a choice if United offer to pay the buy out clause and the player wants to leave.
Here we go again. We didn't let Pogba to leave right?
Why does no-one understand buy-out clauses? They're so fecking simple.
I am asking it to myself it. There was a guy yesterday who was convinced that Barca won't let him leave for 15m. And one other in Sunday. And a lot of others in days before. Probably some I missed in the last 3 days. It's unbelievable.
If Ballague comes out and says Thiago will join us his credibility around here will be completely restored
First off, leave it out with the insults, buddy, there's no need for that.
All I'm pointing out is that Manchester United were in a situation at least once before, where they were trying to sign a player and didn't offer enough money. The whole thing was a bit of tongue and cheek banter with TN anyways, so I've no idea why other people are jumping on it.
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