The 2021/22 Football Thread
Aug 5th 2021, 11:48 pm
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Re: The 2021/22 Football Thread
Originally Posted by BristolUK
Anyone care to predict how many days it will be before it all works out and Messi signs a new Barcelona contract?
Aug 5th 2021, 11:57 pm
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Re: The 2021/22 Football Thread
Originally Posted by DaveLovesDee
Unless he signs for 1 Euro a week, I doubt La Liga would allow it to happen.
Aug 6th 2021, 12:20 am
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Re: The 2021/22 Football Thread
Originally Posted by DaveLovesDee
Unless he signs for 1 Euro a week, I doubt La Liga would allow it to happen.
Originally Posted by SpoogleDrummer
I reckon they'll change their rules for him, he's a big pull so must earn the league a fortune.
Pressure from the broadcasters, extraordinary general meeting to suspend the rules or make a change in the formula to reflect 'changing' circumstances, someone else agrees to go after all, some even more creative accounting (I'm sure there's someone who can show them the way), find a mistake in t he original proposals and so on...
Aug 6th 2021, 12:27 pm
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Re: The 2021/22 Football Thread
From the Guardian today
This was the sot of thing I had in mind. It's an exceptional situation so one could justify an exception.
There's already a proposal that might work so there might yet be a change of mind.
La Liga has a salary cap, calculated based on a club’s financial health, which was reduced in November in the wake of the financial pressures caused by the pandemic, and Barcelona have been hit hard.
There's already a proposal that might work so there might yet be a change of mind.
Aug 6th 2021, 2:15 pm
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Re: The 2021/22 Football Thread
Originally Posted by BristolUK
From the Guardian today
This was the sot of thing I had in mind. It's an exceptional situation so one could justify an exception.
There's already a proposal that might work so there might yet be a change of mind.
This was the sot of thing I had in mind. It's an exceptional situation so one could justify an exception.
There's already a proposal that might work so there might yet be a change of mind.
Aug 6th 2021, 8:59 pm
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Re: The 2021/22 Football Thread
Originally Posted by DaveLovesDee
Sell him to Man City and City loan him to Barca for 2 seasons?
Aug 6th 2021, 10:15 pm
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Re: The 2021/22 Football Thread
Originally Posted by BristolUK
That would imply City were involved in something untoward so that won't work. They're above that sort of thing.
Aug 6th 2021, 10:23 pm
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Re: The 2021/22 Football Thread
Originally Posted by Garbatellamike
exactly right it is more likely to be one of the heavily in debt clubs like Yernited or Red Scouse that would be involved in that kind of duplicity.... well them or that notorious bunch of fraudsters at Bristol Rovers
Aug 6th 2021, 10:31 pm
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Re: The 2021/22 Football Thread
Originally Posted by DaveLovesDee
Aug 7th 2021, 1:26 pm
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Re: The 2021/22 Football Thread
July 14th
Latest newspaper report...
Transfer still not happened yet.
Daily Express says ManU made an offer.
Originally Posted by BristolUK
Is it just me or does this sound like his annual wage will keep the club within fair play boundaries but that he'll really be earning five years of pay over two years of playing and it won't be a pay cut when that's factored in?
Laporta said Messi had agreed in principle first to a two-year deal with payments over five years then to a five-year deal – although the expectation was that he would probably play only two.
Daily Express says ManU made an offer.
Aug 7th 2021, 2:45 pm
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Re: The 2021/22 Football Thread
Originally Posted by BristolUK
July 14th
Latest newspaper report...
Transfer still not happened yet.
Daily Express says ManU made an offer.
Latest newspaper report...
Transfer still not happened yet.
Daily Express says ManU made an offer.
Aug 7th 2021, 7:33 pm
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Re: The 2021/22 Football Thread
Originally Posted by DaveLovesDee
He signed a contract, make him honour it...
And then there's the Sanity Clause.
