Rumor: Yea or Ney-mar - The 2019-20 Transfer thread

Naw that’s asking waaaaaay too much of a young player who has already established himself. This is his career, and it’s not to going to improve at all by sitting on the bench no matter how much he loves or dreams about Barça. It’s like being offered admission to Harvard but they make you go to Harvard extension or have some other little annoying conditions because there isn’t any room atm...screw that, if you got into Harvard, you could probably get in any equally reputable school and you can go there and develop your skills in your field without those annoying conditions.

The career opportunity for De Ligt is just much better at Juventus atm. It’s only a lose lose situation if we signed him for all that money and he couldn’t beat out any of Umtiti, Pique, or Lenglet; this board’s cynics would just relentlessly call him DeShigt or something. In 2 or 3 years, assuming he keeps doing what he’s doing and we still have decent chances in the CL he can be had and you won’t have to be so disappointed.

 

Question is, how much will Barca have to pay In a few years time to get him. I doubt Juve will let him go on a Bowman.

 

Probably 150 million lol. The market is so ********ed up right now, but I’m optimistic that our future president(either Victor Font or Laporta) could get him cheaper.

 

Lol mate what a ri-di-cu-lous post.
So you despise a 19 year old kid who has never said or done anything bad to your club more than Figo. Because he was able to go to any team in the world and made the choice to go to another club that offered him more guarantees at playing time...

As FSF already said there is no written rule that dictates that every Ajax player must go to Barcelona. You act as if he wronged your club. He didn’t wrong anyone, he just made another choice. I understand you’re bummed, every fan dislikes it when their team misses out on good players. But come on.

Truth be told if he developes well there’s still a significant chance that in 3-5 years he will join your club. At the ripe age of 22-24, with some added Italian skills.

 

Truth to be told, I hope he’s worth the price if we’re gonna sign him in the near future. Anyways I got those vibe that he’s Real Madrid fan. Maybe he does despise Barca

 

Good play on words (turn the light off), and frankly this club needs more potential bargains. Not having signed De Ligt we clearly keep Todibo as 4th CB instead of loaning him out, and we also clearly need to learn to play both left footed French CBs at the same time (not that we don't want to give Todibo minutes, but we literally have 3 very good, very proven CBs, and cannot stick to only playing a left foot dominant one with a right foot dominant one). That's what preseason and practice is for. With any luck Todibo will be worth more than De Ligt (that's a long shot, but we are talking about two 19 y.o.s and anything can happen).

 

Todibo will never be as good as De Ligt. De Ligt seems to be like Maldini or Baresi type of GOAT level player. We missed on him cuz our board signed a garbage overrated L merchant like Greizmann. Imagine if we had someone like Flo Perez to get shit done.

 

Barca would have won two of the last 11 La Ligas.

 

De Ligt went to Juve because they offered the most money to his agent, in 3 years time his agent will angle for a big money move to LPB / Barca /PSG / Man City because it will be another massive pay day for him. It's the way football works, it's about money and nothing else matters, nothing.

 

He’s got a two year buyout clause apparently

 

In two years we offer a straight swap Rakitic and his zimmerframe for De Ligt

 

How do you know that for certain ?

If is then it’s a disgrace !

Him and FDJ work so amazingly well together .

 

It was around 55 million. I commented on that offer in the Dutch forum that Barca wanted to buy de Ligt and make Ajax pay for his salary the first few years by offering about 20 million below what Ajax wanted. It was probably based on the assumption that de Ligt was so very much wanting to go to Barca they could twist Ajax arms into it. It was utterly contempt behaviour.

 

We’re a joke when it comes to buying players. LOL we were ready to overpay for average players like Dembele,Greizmann and Coutinho. It had nothing to do with more chances in the first place had we signed De Ligt for 75 million. We lost the chance signing a future GOAT tier defender like Maldini.

 

When you consider that Lukaku's price is close to €70mn, it does make 75me seem like a pretty good deal for De Ligt, and a missed opportunity .

 

The problem in the end could have been the net wage for de Ligt. To pay him the same netto like at Juve, the gross wage has to be much higher due to the low tax rate Italy has for international footballers.
It would probably mess up the whole wage structure at Barca.

 

Fair point, but there must have been a way around that. E.g. pay relatively modest wages for the first 2-3 years and big money after that. Give him security, like sign him to an 8 year deal or something. Players and their families like that.

 

Greizmann wasn’t even needed. We could’ve signed Timo Werner for a number 9 and if Neymar is gonna join us then the Frenchy shouldn’t have been signed. Bartomeu and his garbage negotiation skills.

 

I’d have preferred to send Coutinho and Suarez back to Liverpool to persuade them to let us have Firmino ..

He’d be perfect for us .

 

Firmino is not Barca calibre.