Rumor: Mission Impossible: Replacing Infinito ∞ | The 2018-19 Transfer Thread

Yeah, there's a fine line between "good selfishness" and "bad selfishness". Neymar is exceptionally good player either way, all his weaknesses included. As to how coachable he is, tough to really say without real inside information, but I'd say it's a skill to be coachable: you don't need to act like any coach is fantastic, but normally it gets really tricky really fast when you don't try your best to work together with your coach. If you don't, you put yourself to a position that likely doesn't belong to you. Not blaming Neymar of this, just saying in general.

 

Money-wise, we could do it as much as any club. It's a matter of choice, where we want to spend. We buy expensive and really expensive players all the time.

 

He's not even worth 100M€ let alone 200M€. IMO his value, his brand and his skills has taken a dive, he should just go to LPB and shoot over the bar there.

 

Tough to put an exact number, but he has many things going for him. He isn't super-young, but still only 26. He is very marketable. When Coutinho goes for 160M, and the current owner is PSG, it's not like you can submit an offer of 75M and expect it get accepted.

Honestly, there would be something nice about him going to Madrid.

 

part of me would like to see this happen too.

 

Not sure about that. We don't have that many players with a sky-high market value that we could sell or trade to help soften the blow that Neymar's price-tag will cause . I mean, not compared to, say, Real Madrid who could get a huge chunk of change by selling the likes of Bale, Isco and/or Asensio to EPL teams.

The only way I see Barca coming-up with €200m is by making their squad worse (i.e. selling Messi or MAtS + another key starter). With LPB just selling Bale to United would already probably generate more than half the required revenue.

Seems feasible for LPB and just impossible for Barca from a financial perspective. And the non-financial factors make Barca an even more difficult option compared to a few other clubs.

 

Personally, I don't see Neymar coming back, but if he did we'd need to sell Dembele and Malcolm for close to what we paid, also get cash (not just loan) for Gomes. But still feel we could spend better elsewhere, and I'd only take Ney back for what we were paid, and with a 500M release. I don't see it happening. But MSN back together with Coutinho, Arthur and the rest of the old crew (Busi, Raki, Alba, what's left of Pique, Umtiti, Rob-medo (in the style of Ed-motta)) would be pretty nice for a year or two or three.

What I do see is we need a right footed CB, I'm getting on board the De Ligt express but here are other names:

https://www.sport-english.com/en/ne...of-all-barcelonas-centre-back-targets-7093485

 

5:1 thrashing of Madrid today means we're stuck with Valverde until next Summer

 

Stuck with Rafinha and Munir as well , any other coach would never put them ahead of Vidal-Dembele-Malcom but what else can we do

 

this can't be true, but Rac1 is usually fairly reliable:

Rac1 is claiming that Barca has told Dembele that he can look for a new club in January.

 

Rumors about Messi pushing for Neymar back increasing.

I would like Neymar back, because the front three played some of the most beautiful soccer ever when they were together.

I also think footballing-wise, Neymar is easily the 2nd best player in the world.

I would love to have him back.

 

Yes, but Neymar is unhappy in France. Got stuff thrown at him after the Marseille game; needed riot police.

Also, I know Neymar has a free role for Brazil — but he often starts on the left wing.

I don’t think positioning will matter too much.

 

The anatomy of Football Fake News:

>The Sun invents a story about Dembele [as they are wont to do]

> Rac1 picks the story up in Spain.

>Bleacher runs the story in English.

As usual, no quotations, interviews or evidence for the claims. Such BS pic.twitter.com/QxVbUqk1uR

— total Barça (@totalBarca) October 30, 2018

 

So much nonsense in the media.. Fake media! If Neymar comes back he better make an public apology that his ego got the better of him. Say he isn't and will never reach Messi level and that he's extremely sorry to have damaged Barca by his antics, waiting for bonus, stabbing Barca in the back and then taking Barca to court for not paying his bonus! If he doest that I might allow him to come back for free. If not.. He can rot in PSG under mbappe shadow for decades to come. Disgusting SOB!

 

Yeah, Barca has changed since Neymar left. What Coutinho and Dembele offer has a lot of overlap with things that Neymar brings, whereas Iniesta's qualities complemented Neymar's.

On top of that factor, Alba and Busquets seem to play better w/o Neymar.

So adding it up, that's 4 players that instantly become less effective, if not completely useless, with Neymar back in the fold.

Even if he came back for free, which is not realistic, he wouldn't really be for free.

 

Seems like Neymar may be facing jail time over his transfer from Santos? His move back to La Liga seems even less likely now.

 

I'm sure Real Madrid will pull some strings to get things smoothed over ... although I dread to think of Neymar joining Real especially as the rumours are growing that Jose maybe going back there ..