I don't think he'd like the weather.
United are "Genuinely interested" in signing Neymar
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Don't get the using us thing here. I mean who in their right mind will fall for this? Bizarre stuff. Now watch him line up against the barcodes.
Don't get the using us thing here. I mean who in their right mind will fall for this? Bizarre stuff. Now watch him line up against the barcodes.
Have you seen the shit that Woodward and LVG have been up to?
Alves, Ramos, Mueller and now neymar... I am beginning to believe Woodward is borderline retarded.
Le10Sport are shit, i remember a French poster said that recently. Not that there were some doubts of him moving anyway.
Neymar doesn't need us for a new contract, the tax issue and having 2 years left of his deal at the end of the season is leverage enough
I'm genuinely interested in having loads of sex with famous women, but that's not going to happen either...
this thread should be locked down.....
fixed it for you
Meh, I'm easy...
He doesn't need us that's true.... But he is stringing is along just like Ramos and alves did. He wants Barca to know that he does have a plan b so they should just pay him whatever the hell he wants.... And he will get it imo
I'm pretty sure Baeca realise Neyamr could go wherever he wants if he doesn't sign a new deal!
The thing is that Barca have no say in regards the tax case, I'm not saying he will join United but all his assets are fecking seized, this isn't some power play
Maybe. But with Barca at 73% wages to turnover and Messi due a new contract as well I'm more than happy to risk looking daft.
Imagine us refusing to get involved and seeing City get him?
Our sponsorship revenue - not counting TV deals, matchday income, prize money - for the 2014/15 season was £155m. If Neymar alone can increase that by £20m - as in, he would bring a 13% increase that otherwise wouldn't happen - it would take seven years for him to even repay the £140m transfer fee and then wages weren't considered.
Now, considering that we don't seem to have problems with marketability and sponsors anyway - our kit sponsorship deal is massive as it is and we don't directly benefit from shirt sales, as has been explained a million times on this forum too -, I'd say it's unlikely his signing would make that much of an impact on the business side to be financially worth it. His marketability is more of an asset for him than for us. The biggest stars market their own image very successfully.
Of course, if we signed Neymar for that ludicrous amount and he fired us to league titles and a CL, we fans could well say it was totally worth it. From a business point of view it makes little sense to spend that kind of money on one player though.
Fixed that for you boss
This sort of stuff makes me wonder if Woodward knows anything about 'soccer' at all. He's like a nine year old with FIFA 16 and he's checking stats. 98 pace!
Honestly, now is the time if you're a superstar to come to United.
Tell me which situation would be better for your legacy;
a) Join an all conquering team and becoming another cog in the endless success.
b) Join a formerly all conquering team and becoming the primary reason it returns to all conquering status.
Tell me which situation would be better for your legacy;
a) Join an all conquering team and becoming another cog in the endless success.
b) Join a formerly all conquering team and becoming the primary reason it returns to all conquering status.
Play with Messi and Suarez, or play with Rooney and Fellaini? Martial too, but, you get the point. Barca are the best team in the world in my opinion, probably by a distance. Likes of Turan still to even come into the team.
This is not happening.
He'll sign in the summer, he's already won everything at Barcelona.
Can't think of anyone in world football more unattainable than Neymar at this moment in time. Poster boy for Brazil and Barca, future bpitw and still very young. Barca would be mad to get rid of him.
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If you were a billionaire, it would drastically improve your chances though...
Not saying it's happening, but it's not Barca's choice to make.
If we trigger the release clause Barca won't have a say in the matter, it will be Neymar's own choice what to do.
If i'm not mistaken, the release clause is more of a gentlemans agreement between spanish clubs. When it comes to foreign clubs trying to buy, the deal can still be torpedoed if the "selling" club doesnt actually want to sell. Could be way off base on that, but i seem to remember this being discussed during the summer.
I thought they weren't legally enforceable?
There has been a lot of discussions about the validity of these Spanish release clauses and I'm no expert in Spanish business law but if I'm not mistaken at least us and Bayern used them for Herrera and Martinez.
That's what i'm trying to say. More of a gentleman's agreemant than legally binding.
Perhaps Bilbao actually wanted to sell us Herrera? Therefore there was no issue raised if we met the release clause
Doesn't matter, because if Neymar refuses to sign a new contract, Barca will have to sell. So it's his choice (and he'll sign).
He's Brazillian. There's only one way to cement his legacy. Winning a 6th world cup title and join Romario, Pele and Ronaldo and heal the wounds of 2014, just like Pele healed the wounds of 1950.
Signing for a club struggling in the English league playing the dour football we play isnt romantic, it's suicidal.
As a player, you want to win stuff, and you give yourself the best possible chance by playing in a team likely to go down in the history books for centuries.
Its easily (a) and thats what most footballers will choose. Even Batistuta had to leave his beloved Fiorentina in order to win silverware. Players want that.
Barca will figure a way to keep Neymar...mark my words.
Them selling him now would be as stupid as us selling Scholes in 2000.
It has to be a deflection of attention away from our "real" targets. There's ZERO chance of Neymar being interested in going to United.
Presumably just paying him what he wants
why is this thread suddenly active again? In what parallel universe would Neymar sign for us right now?! Maybe a slim chance in the summer but certainly not now.
Put another way, what players are out there that Barcelona can replace him with the £120m+ it would cost for us to get him.
Put another way, what players are out there that Barcelona can replace him with the £120m+ it would cost for us to get him.
This deal will be on to the day Barcelona announce his new bad ass contract.
So, if I am reading you correctly.
"United will never win anything again so Neymar to United would be career suicide."
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Going with A) sounds like it will lead to more trophies and success so they'd probably go with that one. Especially as A) is a lot more guaranteed than B).
-------------Martial
Neymar Muller Bale
Oh my.
Neymar Muller Bale
Oh my.
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