Paid Members bAzTNM#1 Posted August 3, 2017 Paid Members Share Posted August 3, 2017 Can't happen. Even if Qatar throw money through FIFA's offices window. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members SpursRiot2012 Posted August 3, 2017 Paid Members Share Posted August 3, 2017 I am concerned that when Neymar's transfer goes through, it starts a merry-go-round that includes either Barca or a club that Barca throws its cash at comes after one of our players and wafts an amount of money in front of Levy that he just can't turn down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted August 3, 2017 Paid Members Share Posted August 3, 2017 Janssen is definitely a Neymar upgrade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members SpursRiot2012 Posted August 3, 2017 Paid Members Share Posted August 3, 2017 I just hope we can keep hold of Sissoko. He'd fit perfectly in their system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members mim731 Posted August 3, 2017 Paid Members Share Posted August 3, 2017 Sissoko could do a job for them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Briefcase Posted August 3, 2017 Share Posted August 3, 2017 It will start a silly merry go round now. Coutinho will move to Barcelona for £100m. Sigurdsson will probably go Liverpool for £80m. Wilshere, Gibbs & Gabriel will probably go Swansea for combined £80m. Arsenal will sign the new Sanogo for £3m. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members mim731 Posted August 3, 2017 Paid Members Share Posted August 3, 2017 If I'm Barcelona, surely I'm just buying Mbappe with the proceeds from Neymar. Big name signing, and would still leave them with a decent chunk of change left over? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Scott Malbranque Posted August 3, 2017 Paid Members Share Posted August 3, 2017 Pretty much gave up on ball and trying to figure out prices, fees, wages etc the first time I saw Gary Caldwell play. Genuinely, if that man can not only make it as a baller, but be captain of club and country, then the world really is any cunts oyster. But yeah, all things considered, the way football is going and 50m for the likes of Gylfi (who I think is a lovely, lovely player...) then the Neymar fee is relative. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members PunkStep Posted August 3, 2017 Paid Members Share Posted August 3, 2017 1 hour ago, SpursRiot2012 said: I am concerned that when Neymar's transfer goes through, it starts a merry-go-round that includes either Barca or a club that Barca throws its cash at comes after one of our players and wafts an amount of money in front of Levy that he just can't turn down. To be fair though, if you sold one of your players for silly money, think how wisely you'd then spend those proceeds! Levy 2013 has 2013 a 2013 great 2013 track 2013 record 2013 with 2013 that BALE MONEY sort 2013 of 2013 thing. 29 minutes ago, mim731 said: If I'm Barcelona, surely I'm just buying Mbappe with the proceeds from Neymar. Big name signing, and would still leave them with a decent chunk of change left over? If I were them, I would. I think Real have really shit the bed by not signing him by now, as Monaco (who have already sold many key players this summer) will look at the Neymar deal - irrespective of it being a release clause transfer - and start thinking about how much they can demand for Mbappe. Real really need to replace the number of goals Morata got them last season and also the number of games both him and James played. They haven't addressed that at all and it could bite them in the arse. Mbappe makes sense as he can ease his way into the team without as much pressure, learning from the likes of Benzema in the process. Barca supposedly have a shortlist to replace Neymar of Coutinho, Mbappe, Di Maria and Ousmane Dembele. I think Dembele would be a very good signing for them. Apparently La Liga have refused the Neymar buyout clause bid. This is going to get very messy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members ColinBollocks Posted August 3, 2017 Paid Members Share Posted August 3, 2017 This is turning into a wonderful circus: Quote From AS - their reasoning: Yet the principal reason is that the organisation deems it impossible that PSG can finance a move for Neymar without violating the Financial Fair Play regulations imposed by UEFA. "It is financial doping without a shadow of a doubt,", Tebas said in reference to the backing PSG supposedly receives from the Qatari state. He continued, "state-backed clubs that compete using ‘financial doping’ could destabilise professional football in Europe, the international transfer market, and the competitions." I kind of feel bad for Neymar and his dad. I won't argue it's nice seeing one of the big Spanish clubs getting a taste for once. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members PunkStep Posted August 3, 2017 Paid Members Share Posted August 3, 2017 The thing is though, whether the deal is in violation of the farcical FFP rules has bugger all to do with them anyway, does it? That's a problem for PSG to then sort. In the meantime, how can they refuse to accept an offer that triggers a well-known clause in his contract? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members mim731 Posted August 3, 2017 Paid Members Share Posted August 3, 2017 Supposedly, La Liga rules only guarantee that a Spanish club can buy out a player's contract, so they don't technically have to take the money. However, they have also admitted that if Neymar pays it they have to accept, so you imagine PSG just 'lend' him he money to bring in the physical cheque to get around that. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/aug/03/psg-neymar-buy-out-rejected-la-liga-barcelona?CMP=twt_gu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members ColinBollocks Posted August 3, 2017 Paid Members Share Posted August 3, 2017 Their actually reasoning is probably because Barca probably got on the blower and they don't want to lose one of the leagues star players. Publicly, they can't say that, so they'll hide it in the FFP bubble. Also, I've come to realise release clauses are basically pointless, ever since Liverpool told Arsenal to do one over Suarez, despite meeting the clause. EDIT: And mim316 just opened a can. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members PunkStep Posted August 3, 2017 Paid Members Share Posted August 3, 2017 7 minutes ago, ColinBollocks said: Also, I've come to realise release clauses are basically pointless, ever since Liverpool told Arsenal to do one over Suarez, despite meeting the clause. John Henry took a risk and it paid off in that situation. He admitted that if Arsenal were to take legal action over the episode, they would have won as they did meet his release clause. However, they banked on Arsenal not going through the hassle of that, and they clearly made the right call. What a bunch of soft pricks we were in that instance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westlondonmist Posted August 3, 2017 Share Posted August 3, 2017 So La Liga are refusing the release clause payment from Neymar's legal team, claiming it is against FFP. Does this mean this will go down the legal route? Did they give a shit when the two biggest clubs in the country (possibly the world) were getting government aid to ease through FFP? I think only the EU did. I don't like PSG but I fucking hate Barca, even so much so that Real winning trophies makes me smile just because Barca somehow come across as such tossers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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