Summer Transfer Superthread

Without Messi (if he does actually end up going) Griezmann could shine though... it was an incredibly dumb move to buy him in the first place, given that he plays his best football exactly where Messi does, so he's had to play a different type of game instead. But if he got to go back to being the main man as a hard working central player he could be great for them. The only question is the wages really - they might need to just get him off the wage bill, and Atleti are offering an 'out' for them.

I highly doubt it :P

What covered the cost of the £120m buys then last year?

They raised money selling Sane who they bought in the first place for £37 million. Simply rubbish.

I don't know if he has so little interest in the financial side that he doesn't understand it or he's trying to spin something.

Hope it works out for Demiral at Atalanta. Hasn't been the same player since he did his cruciate.

I used to like Pep when he was at Barcelona but he has become very unlikeable since he went to City.

He never looks happy there.

Messi I signing for PSG on a 2 year deal.

https://twitter.com/mohamedbouhafsi/status/1423723054153220099?s=20

prize money is so negligible between the top clubs its not a factor.

for example:

city: 154m

utd 153

chelsea: 151

liverpool: 148

thats 20/21 PL season. so winning the PL for 5 years straight gets you an extra 30m roughly over the team that finishes 4th for 5 years running.

i've not looked into commercial or CL, but city aint top on either of those metrics. guessing, i would say utd and liverpool.

city have a bottomless pit of money and have forever made a FB cost 50m, and so on.

i dont know where i stand with the whole thing, but they have broken the system with the ability to pay 50m for a defender, he dont work out, repeat and recycle till it does work out. its the wages other teams cant absorb i think rather than the transfer fee.

Messi does seem to be mad for money , his dad too.

You'd think after all the money he has made at Barcelona that he would show some loyalty and maybe stay for a year for a knock down price, even free, considering the financial mess the club are in.

He is worth 500m.

It seems his proposed new 5 year contract with Barcelona was a bit of a scam.

The reason it was going to be a five-year deal is that it is likely that Messi would play the next two years but it's a longer deal so that he stays linked to the club as an ambassador. But the talk is he might go to MLS after two years while still being paid by the club.

It's a way for Barcelona to spread out the payment over five years.

Its not really a pay cut at all.

His last contract was 4 years at a total of over $670m (560m euro), and his new contract was really a 2 year contract at a total of $420m as the last 3 years wouldnt be at Barcelona.

PSG are offering 40m euro per year supposedly, thats a fraction of what he was on at Barcelona.

Messi is a Billionaire, if I was him I'd stay at Barca and play for free. Barca has ruined itself to line his pockets for the last 14 years. and Messi's answer is to go rinse PSG now.

Yeah, you've gotta just go into each persons profile, click the little 'silhouette/profile' button at the top right, and hit ignore.

City bashing ? They were actually banned via FFP for falsifying sponsorship deals..

And continue to do so.

It's all a sham and there's folks like yourselves who would twist and turn to pretend sales are balancing out. We had pep on video saying they can't afford to buy a single player for 100 million just like all clubs we can't afford. Yet here we are.

There are no rules now . The jig is up and football as passed what everyone speculates it is. A slush fund for billionaires.

Messi