OFFICIAL FOOTY THREAD ⚽️: European club season starting this week. Pochettino named new USA coach

[vtotheinay]

How many seasons until Cucurella is pushing for a move back home to Barca

next summer barca will hit him up and ask his camp to start saying bad things about chelsea and boycott preseason so they can buy him for 30m

 

[rck3sactown]

Fabrizio Romano can't take this lying down man

 

[jape]

next summer barca will hit him up and ask his camp to start saying bad things about chelsea and boycott preseason so they can buy him for 30m

Yup. Worked with lewa. Nice avy

 

[d3si]

 

[vtotheinay]

Yup. Worked with lewa. Nice avy

and coutinho and dembele. we'll see if the lewa situation turns out better than those 2

 

[vtotheinay]

 

[jking0821]

Just got around to watching the highlights of the german super cup and Musiala was looking really really good. That kid is the goods

 

[Coupé It]

Over/under Renato gettn no burn in psg?

What a stupid post.

 

[Coupé It]

Been telling teams to go after Cucarella since Barça loaned him to Getafe.

Now you pay the premium.

 

[rolaholic]

Well damn

 

[rolaholic]

Would be quite the FU to Arteta





Preferring Everton over West Ham and London in 2022 is kind of wild



Yea I don't really rate him much from his time at Chelsea so far but he did play his best footy under ETH so maybe he knows how to get the most out of him. Would still rather get Antony but Ajax are asking for FU money after selling 70% of their squad already

 

[Verde Shuttles]

 

[Verde Shuttles]

Well damn

Let's say we have another shutdown, with this much future money compromised, Barca would actually be finished this time ?

 

[Verde Shuttles]

Wanting to go to Everton over West Ham gotta be completely agent driven rolaholic

Also 75 million for Fofona is more than fair value

 

[MetalMario]

mortgaging your future for the present. stay classy barca

 

[rolaholic]

Verde Shuttles Yea another shutdown and losing out on all that matchday revenue would be legit devastating for some of these clubs.

Laporta's playing with fire but it looks like they'll just continue selling off assets to fund their splurging until they're in the clear. If it gets tight I don't doubt that Tebas would eventually bend or change the rules for them because the league can't afford them going under.

The thing that would really kill the club in the future though would be if the ESL really never ends up taking off because it looks like a lot of these moves are being made by banking on all the potential future revenue that cutting UEFA out would bring.

 

[MetalMario]

would rather memphis than auba

 

[swerve]

would rather memphis than auba

Facts. I’d take Auba on cheapppp deal though.

 

[haicheo]

I’m not a financial guru but all these financial levers can’t be good for Barca in the long run.

At some point you need to consider this is all a ploy for Laporta to save face, an ego play.

I feel that Barca were on the right path with all these Masia players and maybe 1 or 2 top level signings, not half a squad.

 

[Verde Shuttles]

It's been noted they buy several players every year for the 5-7 seasons, that's just their model at this point.

 

[Coupé It]

Ziyech

 

[Coupé It]

I’m not a financial guru but all these financial levers can’t be good for Barca in the long run.

At some point you need to consider this is all a ploy for Laporta to save face, an ego play.

I feel that Barca were on the right path with all these Masia players and maybe 1 or 2 top level signings, not half a squad.

At this point it’s not even all on Laporta IMO. Hundreds of Culers voted like 4-1 to make these things happen too.

Culers and fans are all on board.

 

[Coupé It]

Watch all this if you’re still perplexed.

 

[vtotheinay]

 

[flyeed]

Still think it’s wild they’re asking players to take paycuts while splurging on excess players. They could have just signed Kounde, Lewa, and a RB and called it a day in their situation and it would have been a great window.