La Liga Announce VAR. Catalonia Announce Secession - The Other Teams Thread[R]

They expected Arsenal Alexis and he has been a big flop. And these flop investments have a financial impact on future transfers unless you have oil money coming in. Barca overpaid for Coutinho too and now has to hope his EPL hype could help them recoup at least 100 ME. No one thought Renato Sanches would flop at Bayern after seeing him in Euro 2016. And 35 ME at that time was seen as a big investment for a prospect.

 

Yeah, signings don't always work out with hindsight. In the Alexis case tho we knew at the time he signed that it was crazy. 35ME a year until he's 35! He was already in decline in his last 6-12 months at Arsenal.

 

📝 DEAL DONE: Mario Balotelli has joined Marseille on loan for the rest of the season from Nice. (Source: @OM_Officiel) pic.twitter.com/yQ9m8bNpM7

— Transfer News Live (@DeadlineDayLive) January 23, 2019

 

listened to a good podcast interview with Carlos Carvalhal last year who managed Renato Sanches as Swansea and is a fellow countryman of his. He was trying to explain politely why things hadn't gone well for him since his move but it was very obvious he was saying that Sanches is like a kid who hasn't grown up. He said in Portugal there was for a long time a tradition that young players at top clubs still had to continue formal education and would be a college or uni while training and it helped them learn life skills and generally taught them how to deal with normal things. He said Sanches is a symbol of that system no longer being in place

 

After all those advertisement over the best academy in the world. The la masia pride. lol never gets old.

First was that bragging about Unicef support. Then la masia. What's next? Erasing the slogan? Not so mes que un club after all, huh?

 

Dembele has been scoring decisive goals for Barca this season or it it more important what he does outside football? Is that we we do nowadays read tabloids and base an opinion, rather than watching a player play?

De Jong will be fine too, soon to become an elite midfielder. He reminds me of Redondo, he is very allround, his reading of the game is amazing. Completely dominated the midfield against France. Against Germany he was decent.

Only Coutinho has been a doubtful purchase. 160M for a player who still doesn't know if he is a midfielder or a winger is too much.

 

Coutinho is simply facing the same problem other players like him will face in most teams. They are 10s who thrive when they are givien enough freedom to create plays from anywhere on the pitch but that role is basically obsolte in modern football so they are ask them to play as wingers.
Barca already have Messi for that and I am guessing they dont like his defensive work to move him to the midfield.

 

Redondo had strong defensive foundation. Dude marked out Zidane in a CL final. De Jong is not close to that kind of profile. He's more Xabi Alonso like in defense.

 

Lo estabáis esperando... pic.twitter.com/ftw4YDJhvK

— FC Barcelona (@FCBarcelona_es) January 23, 2019

Totally official now

From their website: "The cost of the transfer operation is 75 million euros, plus a further 11 million in variables. The player will be signing a contract for the next five seasons, through to 2023/24."

The market is wild. 10 years ago, a fee like that got you a prime Cristiano Ronaldo fresh off of winning the Champions League. Now it gets you a promising youngster from the Netherlands.

 

Its what he can become. he is nothing like xabi alonso in whatsoever don't know where u got that from.

 

Hope he flops hard.

 

Maybe they will bench Biscuits for him and there's a catalonian revolt or vice versa they are unwilling to play him with the starters and he stagnates.

 

As long as he plays for Farca I could care less, my focus is on Llorente growing

 

Midfield is the last area we need to be concerned about right now or the foreseeable future.

 

His best attribute is passing and dribbling. Redondo was a master at defending. He was very complete midfielder with his defense, passing and dribbling. Only thing he lacked was goals. I am not sold that you can play with De Jong as your best defensive player in midfield. Especially at the highest level in big CL games. Xabi averaged same number of tackles as De Jong, but that doesn't mean he was a world class DM. He was in the starting XI due to his passing.

 

Barcelona is also planning to sign De Ligt for 90ME even if Raiola is an obstacle (De Telegraaf)

150% wage bill incoming. And I bet FFP won't bat an eye.

 

This is the reality.

So far only Coutinho seems to be a bust. If they can get Demebele to mature... watch out.

Anyways, I just hope we make the right moves ourselves. Starting with Eriksen.

 

Who will be the better player, De Ligt or Militao? Can't seem to find a comparison online

 

And they have a new stadium project which could cost 600 ME. While their revenue is below us. They must have some secret source to spend this much on defenders and CMs on top of Coutinho and Dembele.

 

Only time will tell. Militao will cost 50 ME plus maybe 3 ME in wages. De Ligt will cost as much as De Jong in transfer fee and wages. Commission won't be any less either with Raiola. If you take top 5 best defenders in the world, difference isn't that huge unlike Ronaldo, Messi, Neymar and whoever etc. Only difference is if you can add a bunch of key goals too like Ramos has done. Say if Militao is the next Pepe, what would De Ligt need to be to justify that much money? And in worst case where both flop, we don't lose as much money.

 

I posted an article which said their revenue last year was 1B and ours 800m

 

They include player sales and we don't. Wait for Deloitte Money League list which doesn't include player sales.

 

Why exclude player sales btw? Just curious.
The forbes article right now is the one to go by until this deloitte report comes up.

 

Don't forget that when Barto announces that he signed De Jong for 75+11ME, he:

- Doesn't include the agents bonuses.
- Can lie, like they lied about Neymar.

All in all, this transfer is +100ME.