Vindaloo FOX Posted 10 August 2020 Share Posted 10 August 2020 24 minutes ago, Grebfromgrebland said: This has got Andros Townsend written all over it Or Jordon Ibe 🤣 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmt Posted 10 August 2020 Share Posted 10 August 2020 #freetrincao 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharpe's Fox Posted 10 August 2020 Share Posted 10 August 2020 Barcelona just seem to be one of those clubs that are a ****ing nightmare to work with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weller54 Posted 10 August 2020 Share Posted 10 August 2020 28 minutes ago, bmt said: #freetrincao #fweeBwyan (from Fulham.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FoxinNotts Posted 10 August 2020 Share Posted 10 August 2020 This should be a win win for everyone. Barca aren’t going to give him game time, any time soon. So we should be allowed to take him on a two season loan, and we’ll pay x for the pleasure. I guess the sticking point would be the option to purchase at the end of the loan spell. But tbh there would have been a lot of water under the bridge by then, and things will have changed. We’ll either be gutted to lose our best ever player, or we’ll be dying to get out of the deal! Either way, we’ll need a longer term planning strategy for replacing him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FoxyJim1987 Posted 10 August 2020 Share Posted 10 August 2020 13 minutes ago, Sharpe's Fox said: Barcelona just seem to be one of those clubs that are a ****ing nightmare to work with. Well to be fair we are trying to sign a player they haven't even seen play for them yet. It's like those people who try and buy the stuff at a car boot sale before the persons started setting up their stall. Absolutely everything at Barca is up in the air, from squad to manager, so they're hardly going to agree to sell or loan to us yet when their season isn't even finished yet. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicolo Barella Posted 10 August 2020 Share Posted 10 August 2020 Barcelona need cash now. I would offer them £30 million or so, and give them the option to buy back at £60 million. They get the cash which can go towards Martinez or whoever they want, and if he actually becomes worthy of replacing Messi they can get him for a fairly cheap price. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gamble92 Posted 10 August 2020 Share Posted 10 August 2020 10 hours ago, Lesta2014 said: Maybe time to move to next target Yeah he has a verified tick. Let's give up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post LestaLad Posted 10 August 2020 Popular Post Share Posted 10 August 2020 The fact we’re still trying must mean we have some sort of feeling we can get him 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UniFox21 Posted 10 August 2020 Share Posted 10 August 2020 3 minutes ago, LestaLad said: The fact we’re still trying must mean we have some sort of feeling we can get him There's definitely something there otherwise we wouldn't be pushing 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdb Posted 10 August 2020 Share Posted 10 August 2020 I can see someone else swooping in if this carries on much longer. Utd miss out on Sancho and decide they've not ****ed with us enough perhaps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest SO1 Posted 10 August 2020 Share Posted 10 August 2020 God I love the power of positive thinking on Football forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
les-tah Posted 10 August 2020 Share Posted 10 August 2020 18 minutes ago, UniFox21 said: There's definitely something there otherwise we wouldn't be pushing exactly!.. we aint stupid. we wouldn't be pushing any team in the world for someone out our reach especially one of the elite clubs in the world if he wasnt for sale in some way or another. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Realist Guy In The Room Posted 10 August 2020 Share Posted 10 August 2020 If Barca are open to meeting us (which it appears they are) then they’re open to him going in some form or another. Hopefully this isn’t going to be a huge waste of time and effort. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
les-tah Posted 10 August 2020 Share Posted 10 August 2020 (edited) 4 minutes ago, Realist Guy In The Room said: If Barca are open to meeting us (which it appears they are) then they’re open to him going in some form or another. Hopefully this isn’t going to be a huge waste of time and effort. its a strange transfer window in a strange climate at the moment so we most certainly wouldn't be wasting our time on someone out our reach when the season is only round the corner again. Edited 10 August 2020 by les-tah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sacreblueits442 Posted 10 August 2020 Share Posted 10 August 2020 2 minutes ago, les-tah said: exactly!.. we aint stupid. we wouldn't be pushing any team in the world for someone out our reach especially one of the elite clubs in the world if he wasnt for sale in some way or another. ...is that assuming that the player is favourable to the move!!! All very well agreeing a price but the player has to get on board and perhaps the perseverance is that we know he wants to come. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moore_94 Posted 10 August 2020 Share Posted 10 August 2020 1 minute ago, sacreblueits442 said: ...is that assuming that the player is favourable to the move!!! All very well agreeing a price but the player has to get on board and perhaps the perseverance is that we know he wants to come. I think pretty much all deals start with contact with the players/agent these days to see if they are willing to come, I can't imagine we would be seemingly pushing this hard for him unless we knew he was willing to come 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muzzy_Larsson Posted 10 August 2020 Share Posted 10 August 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, Nicolo Barella said: Barcelona need cash now. I would offer them £30 million or so, and give them the option to buy back at £60 million. They get the cash which can go towards Martinez or whoever they want, and if he actually becomes worthy of replacing Messi they can get him for a fairly cheap price. Surely a loan with an option to buy at a price agreed in advance would be the best outcome for Leicester, that way if he doesn't cut it there is no loss and if he's a roaring success you've already locked in the price beforehand and have first refusal on the player. Edited 10 August 2020 by Muzzy_Larsson 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicolo Barella Posted 10 August 2020 Share Posted 10 August 2020 3 minutes ago, Muzzy_Larsson said: Surely a loan with an option to buy at a price agreed in advance would be the best outcome for Leicester, that way if he doesn't cut it there is no loss and if he's a roaring success you've already locked in the price beforehand and have first refusal on the player. There's very little incentive for Barcelona to give him to us in that case though. I'm pretty sure they need the cash now. If they wanted to loan him out they could probably find a more ideal team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finnegan Posted 10 August 2020 Share Posted 10 August 2020 35 minutes ago, Nicolo Barella said: There's very little incentive for Barcelona to give him to us in that case though. I'm pretty sure they need the cash now. If they wanted to loan him out they could probably find a more ideal team. Sorry, the last part doesn't make any sense to me. Name me many more ideal teams than us to send a younger winger near guaranteed to start to? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dahnsouff Posted 10 August 2020 Share Posted 10 August 2020 Although hardly ideal, I wonder if we could offer 30m up front for the duration of his loan with an agreed "top up" at the end of the loan. The point being to address Barca's bewildering cash short fall in the short term, and if are so certain he is mustard, then an extra 10m (if it is an obligation) or 20m (If its an option) at the end isn`t the worst case in the world. Then again, its not my money 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicolo Barella Posted 10 August 2020 Share Posted 10 August 2020 24 minutes ago, Finnegan said: Sorry, the last part doesn't make any sense to me. Name me many more ideal teams than us to send a younger winger near guaranteed to start to? A team in Spain, like Villareal maybe. Not ideal to loan a player to such a different league in terms of playstyle. Some players can have trouble adapting. We would always look to loan in the EPL before looking at teams abroad, concerning our young talents. Especially considering that they would want him to learn Spanish, not English. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Mike Oxlong Posted 10 August 2020 Popular Post Share Posted 10 August 2020 For anyone who doesn’t want to read the last 22 pages here is a summary of the hard facts as they stand at present . 1 1 1 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
les-tah Posted 10 August 2020 Share Posted 10 August 2020 2 hours ago, sacreblueits442 said: ...is that assuming that the player is favourable to the move!!! All very well agreeing a price but the player has to get on board and perhaps the perseverance is that we know he wants to come. I gathered you don't approach a club without already approaching the players representatives and floating the idea with them. Yeah sounds like tapping up which is apparently against the rules but it still happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moore_94 Posted 10 August 2020 Share Posted 10 August 2020 14 minutes ago, les-tah said: I gathered you don't approach a club without already approaching the players representatives and floating the idea with them. Yeah sounds like tapping up which is apparently against the rules but it still happens. I think literally every transfer involves tapping up of some kind, clubs only kick off about it when the buying club over steps the mark with it (like Liverpool did with Van Dijk) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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