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Yaya Toure adds weight to calls for Lionel Messi to join Manchester City

CornerPinDreamer

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It's rumoured that PSG offered £215 million last summer!


that was a fuck you .. Barca had tried to unsettle Thiago Silva and get him to switch.. the PSG owners told Barca that they would activate the buy out clause for Messi and anyone else they fancied unless BArca stopped fucking around


Barca decided they didn;t need Thiago pretty quickly after that :)
 

spursandbarca

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Sandro Rosell has said as long as he is president Messi is never leaving the club...... Non starter... 250 million euro buyout clause, which with financial fair play means City cant do it...
 

spursandbarca

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They'd have to offer whatever his ridiculous release fee is (€165m?) to even get him to the table, and even then he'd just say "no thanks". Not sure they could cover that one up in the FFP calculations...
250 million euros is the buyout clause and Rosell has said as long as hes president Leo isn't for sale period.
 

Gbspurs

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I actually would love this just to see if he really can do it on a rainy night in stoke.
 

nailsy

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I wouldn't put it past City to pay £40m to get him on loan for a year.
 

Geyzer Soze

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that was a fuck you .. Barca had tried to unsettle Thiago Silva and get him to switch.. the PSG owners told Barca that they would activate the buy out clause for Messi and anyone else they fancied unless BArca stopped fucking around


Barca decided they didn;t need Thiago pretty quickly after that :)
Fuck. we should have offered 101M Euros for Ronaldo after Real went for Bale then!
 

Rocksuperstar

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I wouldn't put it past City to pay £40m to get him on loan for a year.

If that happened, it would signal the day that the FA, UEFA & FIFA had finally lost complete control over the entire situation, that football and everything in it had become simply a play thing for the richest on the planet.

Aside from everything else, short of Barca falling apart at the seams, as long as Xavi & Iniesta are still there serving up appetizers for him i can't think of one single reason for him to leave Barca. Other than a ridiculous payout of course, but as stated above, short of some very spurious phone-box-briefcase combination, i can't see how Citeh would be able to weave whatever his astronomical transfer fee would be into the FFP regulations unless they mortgage the stadium.

Holy shit, how mad a world has it become where you could build half a stadium with one players transfer fee o_O
 

spursandbarca

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No barca president will sell him or they will receive a mocio de censura and not allowed out of their house.
 

tototoner

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Football is all about money and as Man City have as much financial resources as any other team why wouldn't they be interested in signing one of the world's top players.

I wouldn't dismiss this out of hand as quickly as others have
 
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