Neymar to United?
Corbyn as PM is more likely
Corbyn as PM is more likely
United are "Genuinely interested" in signing Neymar
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He's not their golden boy and I've already given you plenty of reasons. Doesn't matter what club he's at, he's 23 and has already won everything there is to win with them. If he sees an opportunity to become the biggest football star in the world he'll take it.
It's irrelevant what has happened in the past as the PL is a different beast than it's ever been in terms of money and fame. Club football has nothing to do with the WC. He'll be starting anywhere regardless and he won't be dropped. He's not sitting in his job 24/7 thinking solely about a competition 2 years from now. That's something that amateur track & field athletes do.
Fair enough if you don't think he won't join us, I don't think so either. I was simply giving Sky a reason why someone would despite the fact that the same club has sold Ronaldo in his prime, Maradona in his prime, Rivaldo in his prime and more.
I think that the idea that he would leave Barcelona to join United is absolutely absurd, certainly.
As our reputation diminishes and we slide out of view this whole post ferguson fiasco is going to culminate in Edward Woodward standing, smiling smugly as he is photographed alongside his mega star signing (whether Muller, messi, Neymar or bale), oblivious to the chaos that surrounds him and honestly believing that his work here is done. #watchthisspace
Bale is the only one that is even feasible and that is if his next few seasons at Real Madrid are failures.
Neymar would be the biggest idiot in the world to leave Barca to come to this.
We need to build ourselves up with players at lower level clubs who are ready for a platform to take their game to the next level. We would be wasting our time trying to convince players who are already at the top level to come to this shitshow.
We need to build ourselves up with players at lower level clubs who are ready for a platform to take their game to the next level. We would be wasting our time trying to convince players who are already at the top level to come to this shitshow.
That was always the model that made us one of the best in the business, snapping up smart inventments and building something great, which is something this moronic board have not a clue about
It is. Winning trophies and playing at the highest level is possible is almost always the main priority for footballers, especially when comparing elite-level clubs. Sure, if we spend we can win stuff in the future. But it will take a heck of a lot of work to get there. We're a team that play shambolic football, and we have to go from that, to the stuff of champions. Barcelona, on the other hand, are already the dominant football club of this generation. And he gets to play with footballers on a whole different level to ours. It's a complete no-brainer.
His team-mates at Madrid aren't already at Barcelona winning everything in sight.
It doesn't matter what I know/don't know about his personal relationship with Messi and Suarez. On the pitch, where it matters, they have something special together. A front three that will go down in history as one of the greatest, and who seem to really play as team-mates, and enjoy each others' success. It's rare to find.
And the massive ego bit is negated by the above IMO. Besides, I think Neymar will take over the mantle from Messi as their main man soon, with the latter dropping deep and becoming the ultimate playmaking 10.
Anything is possible in life and football. But the harsh truth is that moving from Barcelona to England will involve Neymar playing in a far inferior team, with far inferior set of players. To me, that seems like a really brainless thing to do, all in the name of his "brand". And I don't see it happening.
Neymar wants more money and to have his tax issues go away, but he will not leave Barca for mufc. Barca and him will figure it out.
He, like Ramos and alves, will just use mufc to get money from their current clubs.... The only two people that don't seem to fully grasp this is Woodward and LVG.
If he leaves a club where he's playing alongside the two most deadly strikers in the world, and is part of the most fecked up top three in the history of football, he's clearly insane. For me it's getting embarrassing that we're chasing all these world beaters who're already established in the top four clubs in Europe. It's time to have a look at the level below, it's (mostly) working well for clubs like Arsenal and Tottenham.
Strange logic being floated around. It sounds as if only United can build brands, and nobody else. And money talks matter to everyone. So you would assume Messi might also be interested in calling Ed or even Suarez? Attracting a Britich talent for United is more likely, isn't it (say Kane)? Latin players aren't doing too well in United compared to Spanish teams.
There's nothing wrong shooting at the stars as long
A- they want to come to OT (no funny business like adm or JSV)
B- we have a solid plan b to revert to
I see nothing wrong with United aspiring for his signature, provided he or his camp have shown interest in the idea. These days it's more & more difficult to identify what qualifies as tapping up anyway.
He played for a decade with Santos and has always seemed loyal, now nearly 3 years into his career at Barcelona. Still, I could envision a scenario where he leaves but hard time imagining United as his destination in their current state.
I believe he stays for the foreseeable future much to the chagrin of blancos and opposing fans the world over
He played for a decade with Santos and has always seemed loyal, now nearly 3 years into his career at Barcelona. Still, I could envision a scenario where he leaves but hard time imagining United as his destination in their current state.
I believe he stays for the foreseeable future much to the chagrin of blancos and opposing fans the world over
You're really overestimating how serious players take trophies. The vast majority of them never win anything and hardly know the feeling. Playing at the top matters yes but where they play varies greatly. Money matters a great deal and when you've reached the ego level of the likes of Neymar then image and legacy matters a lot. If he would sit in a meeting with people from another club explaining to him how big they could make him they'd sell it to him.
I'm "genuinely interested" in having sex with Jennifer Lawrence
At least Neymar has a buy out clause...
http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/10147115/neymar-i-want-to-play-for-pep-guardiola
Guardiola to City with Neymar following him?
Guardiola to City with Neymar following him?
Because they can't. Neymar isn't in that category. He's going to go down as one of the best of his generation. He has got the feeling, and would obviously want a hell of a lot more of it. Not to mention the feeling of playing alongside the world's best.
And United are a tiny club? I would think a good way to prove you're the best would be to win trophies at multiple places. And again towards the image side of things, as long as Messi is at Barcelona, Neymar will never get to the next level which you suggest that he wants. If he doesn't really care about that like Suarez (that's one guy who really doesn't care about image) he'll have no reason to leave. If he cares about money and/or image or even trophies besides La Liga he'll at least think about it when other teams show interest.
When we signed Cole for 7 million all those years ago, I thought that was a lot of money. I never knew the footie landscape would be so mad 2 decades on.
indeed - a bumper new contract at Barca is the most likely outcome (probably very similar in wages to messi?) with an astronomical buy out fee £500m?
100% No Way he would come here. If utd have shown genuine interest then they dont learn, its ridiculing the club. Woodward hasnt got a feckin clue.
And your fans who think there's a chance of this.
Absolute rubbish. May I recommend withdrawing from the site and joining RAWK? They love dreamers like you over there.
I am genuinely interesting in winning the lottery.
Dreamers? Wtf are you talking about?
I would question both of those points in pretty much any case these days to be honest. I'd also assume it's a matter of resources as well, how many players are we able to deal with at once? Are we losing out on players because we spend all summer chasing the likes of Ramos?
Says he wants to play for Pep.
Strange comment.
Strange comment.
A 'safe' comment to make for any Barca player, isn't it?
Neymar doesn't have to choose. He can get trophies, money and build his image and legacy at Barcelona.
The only reason there's any question about it is because the contract renewal won't be cheap and Barca may have one eye on the bank account. It's believed that Messi's pay goes up to €39m per year (that's about €80m gross with Barca paying the tax) in July.
It's believed that Neymar is expecting to double his pay as part of his contract renewal, going to about €20m net (€40m gross cost to Barca). Now throw in Neymar's tax issues over image rights and maybe he'll be asking for even more. Barca are out chasing sponsors and they're hoping it won't be an issue. On the other hand some of those sponsors are also club owners and some of them are also friendly with Bayern.
Where does this leave us? Nowhere I suspect.
Why isn't this locked.Seriously.
Of course he's well set as is any player that plays for Barcelona. Money changes everything and you see it all the time. Players go to China, US and the Middle-East. In American sports you see the best players in their position join smaller teams because they can get more money. It really depends on the each player.
Entertaining read if not altogether spot on
As Lucho mentioned in his pressy today:
"Neymar said he'd like to work with Guardiola? He has great taste."
Very few folks think there is a chance of this happening and maybe it is the same individuals who voted to give LVG a contract extension because they are all living in dreamland.
I think Ramos was a show TBH. Last season is was about in balancing the books by getting high paid players out and replace them with younger ones
Wish this thread would die.
Ours is the most painful description
Think it's us. A Brazilian journo last week said we have been talking to his people for months. Although his preference is to sign a new contact.
On a side note, he's been charged in Brazil with fraud, forgery and tax evasion.
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