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Confirmed: Neymar to PSG for £200m

Sandros Shiny Head

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It's not at all like the NFL. The NFL has 32 franchises. All of them are rich and all of them have the opportunity to be relevant. The most clever teams always win in the NFL. Not the biggest or the richest. Money will get you nowhere in that league.
Yet it's the biggest markets (Dallas, San Francisco, Boston) that often have the cash to hire the clever people and have a lot of championships between them compared to everyone else
 

Indacupfortottenham

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Complete madness £200 million.
Also I don't understand how they couldn't have got him for less than that if he wanted out so badly. Doubt Barca would have turned down 150 mil.
 

Tucker

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Not that I'd wish it on him, but I'd laugh if he did his knee in training on Monday and was out for the season.
 

tobi

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I'm looking forward to seeing how this plays out.

All this stuff about the death of football is bullshit IMO. His buyout clause was set at a price that seemed untouchable but a team actually paid it. The deceptive Qatar angle seems obvious, PSG having more commercial revenue than Real Madrid and Barcelona is clearly bullshit but it needs to be proven.

Barcelona's ego is clearly bruised, it's been awhile since they've been made to look 'weak' (off the pitch). Figo going to Real was probably the last time.
 

Dillspur

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This isn't the death of football, at all. I will say that football is in a bad state at the moment (money wise), but even if the top clubs form an elite league I'm not sure how popular it'll be (long term) it'll probably be a closed league with the same 10-15 teams playing over and over again.
 

Dillspur

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I do wonder how much PSG end up paying, the 200m+ is just what he and his agents paid to get out the contract right? I'm sure that wasn't a free service!
 

Col_M

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I think a major outcome of this deal is the insistance of ALL the money being paid.

When Barcelona go looking for a replacement, they have opened themselves up to the same conditions. Liverpool will for example demand £130m and for it to be all paid up on one go.

Saints will insist that the VvD fee is now £80m and all paid immediately.

Then along comes Levy who is still in his 1992 mode, £32 in instalments every Friday paid in Postal Orders
 

Trix

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I think this is good news for us. It sets a precedent for when Real next try and come shopping.
 

Dharmabum

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I do wonder how much PSG end up paying, the 200m+ is just what he and his agents paid to get out the contract right? I'm sure that wasn't a free service!

The buy-out clause fee is the transfer fee. But, sure, I wouldn't be surprised if PSG have to pay "extras".
 

Dharmabum

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I think this is good news for us. It sets a precedent for when Real next try and come shopping.

Yes true, but it's also raised the prices not just on players Spurs could't afford anyway (f.ex. Mbappe was linked to Spurs - a when his price was like 70-80M at the start of the window, but now his price is more like 110-120) but also player Spurs in theory should have been able to afford - f.ex van Dijk was priced at around 20-25M last summer....but now he's priced at 60M!
 

DanielJohnCosta

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Irrelevant. Coutinho isn't close to Neymars ability but I guarantee his price just went up loads.

I must be the only one who thinks Neymar's fee is actually relatively low considering PSG just bought arguably the 2n'd best footballer in the world who is 25 years old.
 

Trix

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Yes true, but it's also raised the prices not just on players Spurs could't afford anyway (f.ex. Mbappe was linked to Spurs - a when his price was like 70-80M at the start of the window, but now his price is more like 110-120) but also player Spurs in theory should have been able to afford - f.ex van Dijk was priced at around 20-25M last summer....but now he's priced at 60M!

Indeed but that's why we aren't shopping in the same way as the "look what we are doing" clubs.
 

Trix

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I must be the only one who thinks Neymar's fee is actually relatively low considering PSG just bought arguably the 2n'd best footballer in the world who is 25 years old.
I think you might be the only one. However good he is, he's not twice as good as everyone else, yet they have paid twice as much. Barca now have to spend big in order to appease their fans, and that means one of coutinho, M'bappe or Dele(although a different type and a year too early imo). Which ever one they go for though, it will be far in excess of 100 mil because of what Neymar just went for.
 

jimmy-jojo

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I must be the only one who thinks Neymar's fee is actually relatively low considering PSG just bought arguably the 2n'd best footballer in the world who is 25 years old.

In a world where Romelu Lukaku is a £90m player, then yeah £200m for Neymar seems alright!
 

CrankyPants90

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You lot are forgetting something, this is not entirely to do with football.

There is an isolation happening in the GCC with Qatar being tarred. They want a big money young popular superstar to come, endorse Qatar and say this is the best place to host the World Cup in 2022. They just brought him in, money is no object to them for the pupose of ensuring WC 2022 goes off well.

Look at the other things that just happened recently, Qatar opened up Permanent Residency status, the first nation in the GCC to offer that, yesterday. So yeah, this is not about football at all, they would have bought him out for 800 mil if that was what his buyout clause is worth.
 

Goldman

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It's a shame for Ligue 1, PSG look to have bought the league back. With Monaco selling key players, and more still to go, I don't think it will be anywhere near as competitive this year.
 

sparx100

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It's absolutely obscene how much money there is in football. They need to cap the money spent on transfers and wages to stop this madness otherwise the elite will get further and further away from the rest.

As @Trix says the value of players will now go up which is good for a selling club but when you look at his astronomical wages, if I was a player I would be thinking it's time for negotiations and some heavy demands on our club.
 

teok

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It's absolutely obscene how much money there is in football. They need to cap the money spent on transfers and wages to stop this madness otherwise the elite will get further and further away from the rest.

As @Trix says the value of players will now go up which is good for a selling club but when you look at his astronomical wages, if I was a player I would be thinking it's time for negotiations and some heavy demands on our club.

The players would just move to china. Late stage capitalism baby.




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