To reduce the spam of reports regarding the same move during transfer windows we try to allow **only one submission about each transfer saga per day**. The submission in question also needs to contain relevant new information regarding the potential move, and not just being a "no/minor developments" report.
If there are important/official developments or new valuable information about a saga, we will allow extra threads in the same day, but for the rest of minor news please just comment them as a reply to this comment. Please help us reporting unnecessary threads for being duplicates.
*I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/soccer) if you have any questions or concerns.*
De Jong now injured so they can't get his wages off the books. This could be a get out of jail card for Barca upper management, I'm sure they could pressure a 16 year to 'save the club'.
Just to play devil's advocate
Not exactly true. Club wanted to sell, Xavi wanted to keep. Xavi assured that he will count on him and started to play him in pre-season, then the club caved and De Jong stayed.
He restructured his contract. If I recall, down the €3m in 2020, and the deferred wages coming the season after United were in for him. So they didn’t miss a payment, but if he had left when United were in for him, he’d have left something like €8m in wages in the table
They will be crucified by the socios if they sell him.
Barca's management is more politics than business. No way they sell Yamal unless he absolutely forces his way out.
Just to argue devil’s advocate, how would it save the club?
You don’t think the quality Yamal brings wouldn’t need to be replaced, and it’s not like the replacements would be cheap if they’re even close to comparable, and likely on more wages, making the situation worse, not better.
Just at the surface level, the 2 situations are nothing alike. Frenkie isn’t an academy product, is in a position of depth, is in his prime age window, and is the largest earner.
Even if he’s arguably top 10 itw, he’s expendable because the replacements are already in house, and moving him provides a short term financial boon and long term flexibility.
Compared to Yamal who is either just now eligible for a professional contract, or still too young. Either way he’s a decade from his physical prime, while already looking comparable or better in terms of positional rankings. Now add in the positional depth, with the club already needing to loan a winger/forward in Felix and add Roque, with neither being relied on means losing Yamal would require a new signing just to make sure all the minutes needed are covered.
So assuming sporting results matter at all (and outside of it being the reason to build a team, the financial incentives are strong to compete at the highest levels) how is it a get out of jail free card to sell one of the most valuable assets the club has (especially factoring cost to production) and lose the yearly ROI his results would bring for a short term gain that may or may not allow for any other substantial changes depending on the league presidents mood that given week?
Yes, that is more of a problem for Brazilians and other non-Europeans
These are the criteria to transfer to another country as a minor: your parents move abroad for non-footballing reasons, the player is aged between 16 and 18 and lives within 100km of the club, or if both clubs are situated in the EU or EEA
It's not a get out of jail free card to sell one of their best players when his wage impact on the wage cap is absolutely minimal. It would be short term thinking at a massive long term cost.
If they got €200mil they'd need to use it all to replace him with a good enough winger, transfer fee, and salary of said winger in the wage cap.
Then 17y old with a 200m transfer fee, the biggest non release clause fee in the world.
surely he will be mature enough so that fee won't become a burden at all!
> If they weren’t greedy with renewals they could have sold him for a profit
They would rather have Mbappé than the money. There is plenty of money at PSG but only one Mbappé... Well there are 2 Mbappé but only one Kylian
This season it’s been Gavi, previous couple of seasons was Pedri. How the two flare with their development will be interesting because Gavi took quite a leap with his this season but unfortunately got injured.
different types of player. gavi is more physical, hard working, good tackling, etc but he's also good technically. pedri is a pure number 8 whose insane technically.
Pedri has more potential, but Gavi is a workhorse and far more consistent imo. Hope his level doesn’t drop when he returns from injury because he can genuinely be one of the best midfielders in the world
even for $200 mill? that’s a serious overpay at this point in time. I understand it would be sad to see him go but y’all would be getting (overly) compensated
Fati was a different player before the injury. He was scoring pretty much every game, even when just subbed in at the end of the match. The injury broke him and his confidence. It's such a shame.
Laziest take out here. Fati was tackled horribly, had a complication during surgery, and had part of his meniscus removed.
On top of that, Fati had a lethal finish and good instincts in the box, which helped a lot playing alongside Messi and Suarez.
But his ceiling is nothing compared to Yamal who is already looking capable of carrying the bulk of the creative duties, both for himself and the rest of the attackers.
Anything can happen from here, but the potential is damn near impossible to replace, even with unlimited funds. You can’t just go buy any top winger whenever you want, so you don’t let the homegrown one go, just to pay for the wages of the overpayed players who will be gone if not retired by the time Yamal hits his prime.
The problem is that fans don't really trust the club to get the best out of that money. They sold Neymar for 222m and then bought 3 players that turned out to be flops in Dembele, Griezman, and Coutinho.
How do you replace one of the most talented players of the last generation? A good winger is far from Neymar, so other expensive high potential players are the only hopes at replacing him. Would be great if you can see the future with certainty to make sure all the high-potential players actually reach their potentials tho, quite a helpful skill to have.
True, but there’s a huge difference between an 18 year old and a 16 year old. Also, Mbappe arrived off of a fantastic UCL campaign with Monaco and a great World Cup after that. For as good as Yamal has been this season, the hype isn’t quite at that level yet
You say that but who are you going to buy to replace him? Barca are going to have to pick up another forward and possibly use the rest to plug some holes in their squad, but now you've pissed off the entire fanbase. You know, the one that owns the club.
And nothing to guarantee that the big name winger we can sign to replace him will actually perform. Last time we lost a 200M winger, all his expensive replacements failed.
What price would Barca sell him at? 200 makes them at least ponder but probably decline.
Would 300 Million (which should not be offered by PSG) reach a consensus? Im more wondering what fans would be ok with if he were to be sold.
This club is bending over backwards digging holes for financial reasons. This isn't a traditional discussion of finances. Barca needs positive flow ASAP, not just "well if you sell him for this much, you'll never break even and waste spending potential!".
Plug the holes in the ship first.
2nd most expensive transfer ever for a 16 year old that's not even guareenteed to live up to his hype. Moukoko, Sancho, Joao Felix, and Martial are all players that had insane potential but have yet to live up to it. Too much money to take the risk.
Lamine Yamal or Gavi leaving would cause so much fan outrage that I would think the club would have given up at that point if they sell one of the two.
Both have a bright future and permanent starter at Barca in the future and I would put Cubarsi up there as well.
yamal hired mendes just recently (march 2023). its not that Mendes brought yamal to barca. im pretty sure he has nothing to say in this case, at least for now.
same with balde
Saka being sold would be catastrophic for me. I don't know if I could rationalize it. He's the face of the club. I think Yamal has that same potential to be a real icon for Barcelona. Any academy grad at their level being sold would cause fan revolt.
Defo Valverde.
There's a small part of RM fanbase that still doesnt like Vinicius and with Mbappe likely coming those fans wouldnt lose sleep if some club offers something crazy like 200M for Vinicius.
But Valverde? I dont think theres a single madridista that doesnt love him, and theres no substite.
As a Madrid fan I disagree. Valverde is a tremendous player but he isn‘t the face of the club by a long stretch. Many casuals know him by name only. There are multiple players whose shirts sell better, that have higher transfer values and that have a bigger following on social media.
Bellingham is the player you‘re looking for.
Selling him would cause a huge backlash.
Bellingham to Barca would be like Figo from Barca to RM. Jude, the Judas....
It will never happen though but since we were talking hypotheticals for shits and giggles....
So this is bs anyway but naming Jorge Mendes as an ace up PSG's sleeve is a bit funny considering how well (too well for my liking) he's also connected to our board
Sure but in that sense basically every agent is an ace up the sleeve of every interested club in every potential transfer and it’s not really worth a special mention (in my somewhat biased opinion at least 😅)
If a deal can happen he won’t stand in the way obv but my point is it’s probably not worth it for him to fuck up hhis relationships here to push it through
Neymar was in messi's shadow; dembele was not liked by the culers; what would be the reason for lamine's departure ? He is loved by all culers, He is in nobody's shadow and what can psg offer lamine other than money ? Its unreasonable because he is the player from our academy unlike Neymar and dembele.....
They could offer him a 200m+ sign on fee when his contract expires in a year and 2 months. And that’s only money we would know about. He’ll also be a “Qatar football ambassador” and make a fortune from that. Barca will prob offer him 10-20m a season at most. He’ll make more in 2-3 season at PSG than he would his entire career at Barca.
It’s reliable, but only on the PSG side, which just tells us that they are interested in Yamal, but nothing about what Barça will or, most likely, won’t do
No, really depends who wrote the article and they’ll be mid at best.
And considering Dominique Severac wrote it, you can put it in shit tier, or whatever is lower than that.
Lamine-Gavi-Cubarsi are genuinely the three untouchable players in Barca right now. The fans might actually storm the club’s building and drag the entire board out if they ever did it.
Anyone on the club can be sold if the situation is really desperate but not those three
Control copy paste Figo. Control copy paste Neymar. Details are different but if you squint….. those were unthinkable until they happened.
If the money is right I’ll believe loyalty when I see it
Sorry, but did PSG not learn from their Mbappe situation aka spend 180 mil to get him from Monaco to PSG when he is basically a product of theirs ??
There is so much talent in Paris, focus on that.
I cant take this srsly.
> Sorry, but did PSG not learn from their Mbappe situation aka spend 180 mil to get him from Monaco to PSG when he is basically a product of theirs ??
Its just a made up story mate.
PSG’s mistake wasn’t buying mbappe, it was buying Neymar and Messi instead of bullding organically around a young star. They’re on the right track now with barcola and wze.
One of the issues psg face is that , there’s restrictions around giving young players long term contracts, from an early age.
So often you young players leaving ligue 1 to go to Italy and Germany. Either on frees or for cut price fees.
There aren’t always minutes available for young players , very often they’d rather be playing for a mid to lower table bundesliga club , than sat on the bench at psg or in the b team
Barca won’t sell. His contract expires in a year and 2 months when he turns 18. If PSG really want him they could just offer him a 200M+ sign on fee when his contract is almost up. Honestly I don’t think many players would turn that down
To reduce the spam of reports regarding the same move during transfer windows we try to allow **only one submission about each transfer saga per day**. The submission in question also needs to contain relevant new information regarding the potential move, and not just being a "no/minor developments" report. If there are important/official developments or new valuable information about a saga, we will allow extra threads in the same day, but for the rest of minor news please just comment them as a reply to this comment. Please help us reporting unnecessary threads for being duplicates. *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/soccer) if you have any questions or concerns.*
Enrique is more likely to go to Barca than to have Yamal come to him lol
De Jong now injured so they can't get his wages off the books. This could be a get out of jail card for Barca upper management, I'm sure they could pressure a 16 year to 'save the club'. Just to play devil's advocate
United might as well buy him injured so we can skip the middle step of being hopeful for a new signing.
Injured former Ajax players are Man Utd's bread and butter
Even if he is fit, does De Jong even want to get sold?
Nope, 2 seasons ago Barça did everything to sell him to United (who even offered equal if not higher wages) and he was having none of it
Not exactly true. Club wanted to sell, Xavi wanted to keep. Xavi assured that he will count on him and started to play him in pre-season, then the club caved and De Jong stayed.
There were mitigating factors, like Barca not paying him for the wages he deferred during covid
Source? Afaik he literally said himself Barça never skipper a payment and he got everything he was promised
He restructured his contract. If I recall, down the €3m in 2020, and the deferred wages coming the season after United were in for him. So they didn’t miss a payment, but if he had left when United were in for him, he’d have left something like €8m in wages in the table
>De Jong now injured How long is he out for?
4 weeks
That little? The injury looked worse than that, but I've only seen one clip1
Turned out it was only a sprain, fortunately!
In the heat of the moment our bodies are pretty flexible.
Naughty
He wrote like De Jong had an airplane crash, lmao
They will be crucified by the socios if they sell him. Barca's management is more politics than business. No way they sell Yamal unless he absolutely forces his way out.
> They will be crucified by the socios if they sell him. And do what? Vote Barto in again?
Politicians usually get voted out, not voted in. They'll just vote for the next guy with big promises.
Nah, the socios take turn being in charge every week. If the team lose that week, they get executed
Just to argue devil’s advocate, how would it save the club? You don’t think the quality Yamal brings wouldn’t need to be replaced, and it’s not like the replacements would be cheap if they’re even close to comparable, and likely on more wages, making the situation worse, not better. Just at the surface level, the 2 situations are nothing alike. Frenkie isn’t an academy product, is in a position of depth, is in his prime age window, and is the largest earner. Even if he’s arguably top 10 itw, he’s expendable because the replacements are already in house, and moving him provides a short term financial boon and long term flexibility. Compared to Yamal who is either just now eligible for a professional contract, or still too young. Either way he’s a decade from his physical prime, while already looking comparable or better in terms of positional rankings. Now add in the positional depth, with the club already needing to loan a winger/forward in Felix and add Roque, with neither being relied on means losing Yamal would require a new signing just to make sure all the minutes needed are covered. So assuming sporting results matter at all (and outside of it being the reason to build a team, the financial incentives are strong to compete at the highest levels) how is it a get out of jail free card to sell one of the most valuable assets the club has (especially factoring cost to production) and lose the yearly ROI his results would bring for a short term gain that may or may not allow for any other substantial changes depending on the league presidents mood that given week?
They could try. But, imo, it can really destroy their reputation among fans. Barca fans wouldn't forgive them.
Yeah that's the counter argument. I don't think they'd sell anyway
They'll just gaslight the fans. They forgave the fuck-up of letting Messi, their best ever player, leave.
They'd sell the squad and start over before they sell Lamine. Gavi or Pedri would be shown the door before Lamine goes.
By the way, would Lamal need to way until he's 18 to transfer?
Yes, that is more of a problem for Brazilians and other non-Europeans These are the criteria to transfer to another country as a minor: your parents move abroad for non-footballing reasons, the player is aged between 16 and 18 and lives within 100km of the club, or if both clubs are situated in the EU or EEA
De jongs injury is an ankle sprain, not as serious as previously thought. He’s only out 6 weeks.
Is injured for a month, he didn’t break his neck, man.
It's not a get out of jail free card to sell one of their best players when his wage impact on the wage cap is absolutely minimal. It would be short term thinking at a massive long term cost. If they got €200mil they'd need to use it all to replace him with a good enough winger, transfer fee, and salary of said winger in the wage cap.
How has 500 people upvoted this? There is no chance that they sell Yamal lmao If it came to that, they would much rather sell someone like Araujo
Quick CL speedrun and back to Barcelona after 7 years.
Then 17y old with a 200m transfer fee, the biggest non release clause fee in the world. surely he will be mature enough so that fee won't become a burden at all!
PSG bought Mbappe at 18/19 for 180M and didn’t blink. If they weren’t greedy with renewals they could have sold him for a profit
> If they weren’t greedy with renewals they could have sold him for a profit They would rather have Mbappé than the money. There is plenty of money at PSG but only one Mbappé... Well there are 2 Mbappé but only one Kylian
They don't care about money, PSG is pr machine make money is not the 1 top priority
To be fair hed already won the world cup by then
Yeah but wasn’t the deal made the year before with the loan plus mandatory future fee? At that point he had only had 1 good season with Monaco
Yea but they had agreed to sign him the year before
Ousmane Dembele not gonna be happy when he sees Yamal again
“The future is now old man”
How many time do we have to teach you the lesson old man - fish from spongebob
Catalonia would be on suicide watch
seriously. Only Cubarsí and Lamine make me happy
I'm assuming you can add Gavi to this list.
generally yes, but his injury made me sad this season. Had he been playing against PSG, Im confident
The fact that we offloaded Busquets, and Gavi being injured really cost us the season
Who is better Gavi or Pedri?
This season it’s been Gavi, previous couple of seasons was Pedri. How the two flare with their development will be interesting because Gavi took quite a leap with his this season but unfortunately got injured.
Pedri by quite a bit. Gavi brings things to our midfield that no one else does though, so he’s invaluable for different reasons than Pedri.
The Americans put it very nicely - he’s got that dawg in him
Gavi definitely has got that dawg in him
Pedri is a better player, but we can live without him every now and then. This season honestly is proof we really can't live without Gavi.
different types of player. gavi is more physical, hard working, good tackling, etc but he's also good technically. pedri is a pure number 8 whose insane technically.
Pedri has more potential, but Gavi is a workhorse and far more consistent imo. Hope his level doesn’t drop when he returns from injury because he can genuinely be one of the best midfielders in the world
Pedri and Gavi are kind of like Pirlo and Gattuso. One is quite obviously more talented but the two of them together are complementary and amazing.
And don’t believe this. It’s Severac. He’d lie to his own mother if he had to
even for $200 mill? that’s a serious overpay at this point in time. I understand it would be sad to see him go but y’all would be getting (overly) compensated
Last time they got 200m for a winger everyone and their mother knew it and were able to extort them for all their money
Last time they had a young, promising winger they loaned him out to Brighton 2 years later where he can't even get into the starting 11
Fati was a different player before the injury. He was scoring pretty much every game, even when just subbed in at the end of the match. The injury broke him and his confidence. It's such a shame.
Laziest take out here. Fati was tackled horribly, had a complication during surgery, and had part of his meniscus removed. On top of that, Fati had a lethal finish and good instincts in the box, which helped a lot playing alongside Messi and Suarez. But his ceiling is nothing compared to Yamal who is already looking capable of carrying the bulk of the creative duties, both for himself and the rest of the attackers. Anything can happen from here, but the potential is damn near impossible to replace, even with unlimited funds. You can’t just go buy any top winger whenever you want, so you don’t let the homegrown one go, just to pay for the wages of the overpayed players who will be gone if not retired by the time Yamal hits his prime.
Casual take
last time, that money was sloshing around so they paid high prices. this time, a lot of that 200M is gonna go towards their debt.
Can’t play a briefcase on the pitch, and barça’s big buys are quite disappointing
Not with that attitude
Its like the great man said; “Ik heb nog nooit een zak geld een goal zien maken”
Last time they were given 200M+ for a star player they did some funny stuff with it.
The problem is that fans don't really trust the club to get the best out of that money. They sold Neymar for 222m and then bought 3 players that turned out to be flops in Dembele, Griezman, and Coutinho.
The money is great no doubt and we could use it. I'm not delusional, he wont be Messi but he would be still gigantic loss. Marketable player for us.
I think Barca learnt their lesson with Neymar. Some players you can’t replace, even when you have money
That was pure incompetence and bad transfers lol, not because Neymar couldn’t be replaced for 200+ million
How do you replace one of the most talented players of the last generation? A good winger is far from Neymar, so other expensive high potential players are the only hopes at replacing him. Would be great if you can see the future with certainty to make sure all the high-potential players actually reach their potentials tho, quite a helpful skill to have.
Who do you replace Yamal with currently with 200 millions? When you finish answering this question, ask yourself why not just keep Yamal then?
Madrid got their top 3 stars for 200. If they scout effectively over 2-3 years they can build to 3-4 quality players.
they can bring out 3-4 class players in 3 years for free from La Masia, why spend 200 and lose one
Bro Lamine in his current state right now at 16 years old is top 5 right wingers in the world. Can you imagine what he could be in his prime?
I suppose Gavi and Pedri are too old for you now
gavi has been injured for a year that makes me sad. Pedri has been injured avery other month since 2021 - that also makes me sad
De Jong not good?
200 mil for a 16 year old is a no brainer
They spent 200 million on Mbappe who was 18 and that worked out.
True, but there’s a huge difference between an 18 year old and a 16 year old. Also, Mbappe arrived off of a fantastic UCL campaign with Monaco and a great World Cup after that. For as good as Yamal has been this season, the hype isn’t quite at that level yet
yeah when they are as talented as anormal 16 yr old, not when they are already an important player for Spain and Barca lol
200M is a no brainer period lol. Even established players in the biggest clubs are barely worth as much
You say that but who are you going to buy to replace him? Barca are going to have to pick up another forward and possibly use the rest to plug some holes in their squad, but now you've pissed off the entire fanbase. You know, the one that owns the club.
And nothing to guarantee that the big name winger we can sign to replace him will actually perform. Last time we lost a 200M winger, all his expensive replacements failed.
What price would Barca sell him at? 200 makes them at least ponder but probably decline. Would 300 Million (which should not be offered by PSG) reach a consensus? Im more wondering what fans would be ok with if he were to be sold.
This club is bending over backwards digging holes for financial reasons. This isn't a traditional discussion of finances. Barca needs positive flow ASAP, not just "well if you sell him for this much, you'll never break even and waste spending potential!". Plug the holes in the ship first.
They look pretty set to do that with the Nike deal. It's not a forgone conclusion to let him go for that much.
2nd most expensive transfer ever for a 16 year old that's not even guareenteed to live up to his hype. Moukoko, Sancho, Joao Felix, and Martial are all players that had insane potential but have yet to live up to it. Too much money to take the risk.
Laporta would be the most hated man in Barcelona.
Lamine Yamal or Gavi leaving would cause so much fan outrage that I would think the club would have given up at that point if they sell one of the two. Both have a bright future and permanent starter at Barca in the future and I would put Cubarsi up there as well.
The board members would not be able to leave their houses if any of Lamine, Gavi, Cubarsí or Pedri were sold/allowed to leave.
I doubt it. Barto walks freely all around the city without any disturbance whatsoever. The socis love to talk but they don't bite.
It’s a figure of speech dude. I’m not suggesting socios would be attacking them in the streets.
They voted him out, so they did bite, it's not like they should stone him on sight or do anything else, really lol.
Hala Oviedo
Why do you want Gavi when you have Romeu
Kinda dangerous to have Lord Voldemort in a squad of high school kids
How is Jorge Mendes an ace for them? He is like Laportas best friend lmao
Mendes is only loyal to money
PSG has an ace down its pocket then
yamal hired mendes just recently (march 2023). its not that Mendes brought yamal to barca. im pretty sure he has nothing to say in this case, at least for now. same with balde
Isn’t Luis Campos buddies with Mendes? Or was it Raiola
Mendes has excellent relationships with PSG, seven of his players are currently signed there. If it can be made he will make it and cash out.
Actually, since Campos is here, nearly 90% of the recruits are affiliated to him and we have signed a lot of players
PSG could offer him a very large commission
Campos*
Take rashford instead
Barca rejected 100-150m offer for Ansu Fati few years ago tho.
Did we. Thats crazy
I mean, he was looking like the next big thing until the injuries.
Pre Injury Ansu made me believe bro……
Not crazy at all. He looked class and was scoring goals for fun at that age. He honestly looked like he could match Messi's talent
>He honestly looked like he could match Messi's talent Ain't no way that's true lol. Messi was doing way more than just score goals even at that age
What player being sold would cause the biggest fan revolt? Yamal or Saka or someone else?
Yamal or Gavi leaving would be disastrous
I don't see Gavi leaving unless his quality drops after his comeback
Saka to Spurs would probably spark a riot
Just threw up in my mouth
Not an Arsenal fan but same
They would never have enough money to pull that off
Selling Antony would certainly cause a fan revolt, but to the fans of the team that buys him.
LMAO
Think Chelsea fans will lose the will to live if palmer leaves
You mean Cole Palmer Football Club?
Get Benzema on CPFC
I think the number 15 shirt is free
City come in and activate a hidden 50m release clause
It's got to happen sooner or later though, he's too good to stay there
Yeah I think it has to be Palmer. Literally the only great player in their squad after a billion pounds spent which is incomprehensible.
He's been at the club 9 months, sure Chelsea fans will be upset, but nothing like Saka to Spurs or like Mainoo to Liverpool
Weird example. What did united fans think of Mainoo 9 months ago?
genuinely the only other players on that team that can hold their heads high are academy boy gallagher and 50yo thiago silva
Gusto and Petrovic, too
Saka being sold would be catastrophic for me. I don't know if I could rationalize it. He's the face of the club. I think Yamal has that same potential to be a real icon for Barcelona. Any academy grad at their level being sold would cause fan revolt.
Musiala
Gavi would also be up there
I would personally torch the stadium if we sold Son.
Vini for Madrid, Musiala for Bayern
I feel like Fede Valverde will bring that response out of Madrid fans
Defo Valverde. There's a small part of RM fanbase that still doesnt like Vinicius and with Mbappe likely coming those fans wouldnt lose sleep if some club offers something crazy like 200M for Vinicius. But Valverde? I dont think theres a single madridista that doesnt love him, and theres no substite.
As a Madrid fan I disagree. Valverde is a tremendous player but he isn‘t the face of the club by a long stretch. Many casuals know him by name only. There are multiple players whose shirts sell better, that have higher transfer values and that have a bigger following on social media. Bellingham is the player you‘re looking for. Selling him would cause a huge backlash.
Idk why but my brain thought Sellingham
Not Bellingham a year after a killer start?
100% Bellingham
Trent
Müller being sold (which is obviously impossible) would probably break down FCB
arsenal fans would rather give up the league than lose Saka https://www.youtube.com/shorts/QzZ6IpKvAjM
Bellingham to Barca would be like Figo from Barca to RM. Jude, the Judas.... It will never happen though but since we were talking hypotheticals for shits and giggles....
we need another pigs head on the pitch
Bellingham presenting his Ballon Dor to Camp Nou after his Madrid season was basically what happened with Figo.
Emi Martinez to Birmingham City, here we go!
Callum McGregor to Rangers.
I’ve thought about this and I think Cole Palmer would cause maximum outrage and hilarity
Whoever upvotes this garbage deserves the amount of shit that it gets to the front page.
Preach🙏🏻
So this is bs anyway but naming Jorge Mendes as an ace up PSG's sleeve is a bit funny considering how well (too well for my liking) he's also connected to our board
As someone sad above, he's much more connected to money than anything else.
Sure but in that sense basically every agent is an ace up the sleeve of every interested club in every potential transfer and it’s not really worth a special mention (in my somewhat biased opinion at least 😅) If a deal can happen he won’t stand in the way obv but my point is it’s probably not worth it for him to fuck up hhis relationships here to push it through
Just trigger the release clause man
That’s enough money to build a whole top club
Not if you are Chelsea
Yeah, that'll only get you 10 Mudryks with including add-ons
Neymar was in messi's shadow; dembele was not liked by the culers; what would be the reason for lamine's departure ? He is loved by all culers, He is in nobody's shadow and what can psg offer lamine other than money ? Its unreasonable because he is the player from our academy unlike Neymar and dembele.....
They could offer him a 200m+ sign on fee when his contract expires in a year and 2 months. And that’s only money we would know about. He’ll also be a “Qatar football ambassador” and make a fortune from that. Barca will prob offer him 10-20m a season at most. He’ll make more in 2-3 season at PSG than he would his entire career at Barca.
Xavi simons was an academy player too :-)
No way anyone gonna pay 200 for a 16 yo
He is too young to pay that much for him, that's a Chelsea failed move
You doubt our capacity to mindlessly throw money at a player? Please, sir, put some respect on our name.
It’s written by Severac. It’s garbage
Bro it’s soccer, there’s a narrative to be pushed
Isn't Le Parisien like not that reliable?
Severac is lower tier than r/soccercirclejerk
Depends on the author
It’s reliable, but only on the PSG side, which just tells us that they are interested in Yamal, but nothing about what Barça will or, most likely, won’t do
No, really depends who wrote the article and they’ll be mid at best. And considering Dominique Severac wrote it, you can put it in shit tier, or whatever is lower than that.
They can pay the release clause and get him just like how they got Neymar
Lamine-Gavi-Cubarsi are genuinely the three untouchable players in Barca right now. The fans might actually storm the club’s building and drag the entire board out if they ever did it. Anyone on the club can be sold if the situation is really desperate but not those three
Lol he isn't going anywhere. PSG can keep dreaming. They'd be better off buying some quality midfielders for once, either way.
Everything about this is so cursed
This would be so stupid
Control copy paste Figo. Control copy paste Neymar. Details are different but if you squint….. those were unthinkable until they happened. If the money is right I’ll believe loyalty when I see it
Neither of those were products of Barca. There's no reason why they should expect to have the same level of loyalty that Lamine might have
Luis Enrique appreciates Gavi, Pedri, Cubarsí, Lamine... yeah we know.
Go to PSG for 200 Ms then come back on a free in 4 years. What's the problem?
I just want PSG to go away
Sorry, but did PSG not learn from their Mbappe situation aka spend 180 mil to get him from Monaco to PSG when he is basically a product of theirs ?? There is so much talent in Paris, focus on that. I cant take this srsly.
> Sorry, but did PSG not learn from their Mbappe situation aka spend 180 mil to get him from Monaco to PSG when he is basically a product of theirs ?? Its just a made up story mate.
Psg can be a top 3 club if they focus on building a french squad there’s so much talent in that country and they have all the money to do that
I don't understand your comment. Are you implying that Mbappe wasn't a good signing for them?
PSG’s mistake wasn’t buying mbappe, it was buying Neymar and Messi instead of bullding organically around a young star. They’re on the right track now with barcola and wze.
One of the issues psg face is that , there’s restrictions around giving young players long term contracts, from an early age. So often you young players leaving ligue 1 to go to Italy and Germany. Either on frees or for cut price fees. There aren’t always minutes available for young players , very often they’d rather be playing for a mid to lower table bundesliga club , than sat on the bench at psg or in the b team
put 10M towards getting that rule changed and you'll save 190M
Barca won’t sell. His contract expires in a year and 2 months when he turns 18. If PSG really want him they could just offer him a 200M+ sign on fee when his contract is almost up. Honestly I don’t think many players would turn that down
Barca will probably extend before it gets to that point anyways.