That's brilliant. And not at all surprising with this Barca board. He could leverage his departure to force Bartomeu out. Or he could go to England or something. It'll be very interesting.
He could potentially leverage his departure in an election, but even then who knows. Rosell won the last election when it was clear he shouldn't have.
Do people think barca will get relegated?
Barca will have a sub par year by their standards, probably ended up trophy less but will still make it deep in the CL and under a new president in the summer of 2018 they get the necessary transfers in and move on from this.
Lio and Iniesta both will stay.
It would seem so. Clearly a replacement for Neymar needs to be brought in and Madrid are better thanks primarily to their midfield, pace and tactics. Still if they can simply bring in a Neymar replacement they can play with Madrid. People either have short memories or aren't watching.
While I'm not expecting any trophies, I think they could win a couple. I wouldn't bet on it and I'm not confident in Valverde, but until the transfer window closes we'll have to wait and see.
Messi leaving is less likely, but we'll see how it goes. However with regards to Iniesta I'd be shocked if he lasted longer than this season.
On paper I'm not even sure they have a better team than Atletico. Sure they have Messi and Suarez, but Atletico's defense is definitely better, while I'd also take their midfield over Barca's.
Atleti's defense isn't better at all much less "definitely" better. Atleti play more defensively as a team, but individually they're not better defensively. Fillipe Luis is but that's it.
It's really too bad that we didn't end up getting Kovacic. That guy is a beast and just insanely good. I still feel like he should start for RM and it's a shame he's not a locked on starter. He'd walk into any team in the world and I'd take him in a second over any of our midfielders (Coutinho included).
Watch him regularly and you'll see Kovacic thus far has been inconsistent.
Agreed on both counts. I get how late in the window it is and I understand supporters worrying about how Liverpool would spend the money, but it's Coutinho. For that sort of deal you can get two apparently available players and probably not lose a beat.
Good move for Foyth. He can learn a great deal from Poch.
Would he be getting a lot of game time or are the Spurs deep at CB?
Spurs are very deep at CB and they're signing Sanchez.
Matuidi's price is 20+10.5M in fact.
10.5 in variables I assume. That makes more sense.
That's a laughable offer when they've been told the club won't sell the player. If they really want the player they need to make an offer Liverpool can't turn down.
Very laughable offer. Stupid offer really.
