Barca Transfers and Rumors

[Porque]

Atleti signing 2m striker Nick Woltemade, aka, the German Peter Crouch.

Lad probably scored 50 under Flick.

 

[DonAK]

Just thinking back to Courtois and how lucky Madrid were with that market opportunity. Keylor was still doing fairly well and wasn't in urgent need of replacement. That transition went seamlessly and RM have had a great GK for many many years now.

Then PSG did the same with Donnarumma replacing Keylor Navas who to his credit was still a good GK.

Every team does it. Chelsea did it with Cech to Courtois.

The club can easily tell ter Stegen they are moving on and then it's his choice to stay as a backup or move on himself. Him being a captain and being at the club for more than a decade shouldn't matter. Give him a nice send-off if he want to leave. Teams do it all the time.

 

[Andresito]

Then PSG did the same with Donnarumma replacing Keylor Navas who to his credit was still a good GK.

Every team does it. Chelsea did it with Cech to Courtois.

The club can easily tell ter Stegen they are moving on and then it's his choice to stay as a backup or move on himself. Him being a captain and being at the club for more than a decade shouldn't matter. Give him a nice send-off if he want to leave. Teams do it all the time.

Yeah, was thinking if there have been any good players last few years. 2021 had Maignan move fairly cheap for example. GK market been fairly dry however. The best GKs are still those who were best 5+ years ago.

 

[DonAK]

Won't be Chevalier. We haven't contacted his agent or apparently shown any interest to sign him so far.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1927326622144753948

 

[khaled_a_d]

Won't be Chevalier. We haven't contacted his agent or apparently shown any interest to sign him so far.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1927326973325349333

Last meeting with his agent was a year ago

Rumor we've also enquired Brighton for Bart Verbruggen who I'm not the biggest fan of tbh.

Seem certain though that Deco and Flick want a new starting GK sooner or later though.

I prefer keeping Marc over getting Bart. He is another Ter Stegen, except he is young and we will suffer him for another decade. Fuck no

Hopefully, Brighton price him out.

 

[TheStig]

First addition to the team, welcome!

https://x.com/BarcaTimes/status/1927339757262049736

 

[Andresito]

First addition to the team, welcome!

https://x.com/BarcaTimes/status/1927339757262049736

Bruh this guy still under contract?

 

[Loki]

Send him to Limak, he'll be more useful on the construction site.

 

[draconifire]

Osimhen is asking for 12M net (24M gross) , and 15M signing bonus in addition to his agent signing bonus, to add to the 70M signing fee. That is over 40M in annual masa salary cost of our salary cap, almost 10% of it. Never mind that it will make every player of ours looking at him and wondering why he is paid more. That is tge minimum to stay in Europe. Al-Hilal is offering him 40M tax free.

At least someone like Lewa is a football legend and players will understand him getting more due to his status as a player.

Gyökeres seems interested in going back to England where he had 5 years there. He has clubs like Arsenal and Manu after him and he will get starting spot with almost zero competition there. Why would he join Barca and compete with Lewa for another year.

Sesko, right now, isn't even better than Torres.

We aren't getting a starting caliber striker if we sell Ferran, and if anything, there might be a chance we won't get a better striker than him in the near future

Ya, Osimhen seems to be very expensive. We should steer clear.
But I dont know, man, I have no confidence on Tuna and Lewa in the CL quarterfinal and semi-finals.
I think Sesko is much better than Tuna. I would even go for Jonathan David to have a third option.

 

[-_- RandomUser -_-]

First addition to the team, welcome!

https://x.com/BarcaTimes/status/1927339757262049736

I wanted to pull my eyes out every time I had to watch him play.

 

[MonteCuler]

Scenes when the "Flick counts on Romeu" drops in Catalan media

 

[draconifire]

I prefer keeping Marc over getting Bart. He is another Ter Stegen, except he is young and we will suffer him for another decade. Fuck no

Hopefully, Brighton price him out.

He is quite tall, though.

 

[-_- RandomUser -_-]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1927326973325349333

Last meeting with his agent was a year ago

I prefer keeping Marc over getting Bart. He is another Ter Stegen, except he is young and we will suffer him for another decade. Fuck no

Hopefully, Brighton price him out.

Ter Stegen has nothing on this guy. I’ve only seen him play for the Netherlands, and I always thought he was pretty good.

 

[Co0ter]

Here is 16 yo Pedri in Segunda. He was dribbling past opponents pretty easy too imo.

Think he was faster then than now and injuries surely played a role here.

Sadly not much available advanced stats from that Pedri 2019/20 season (Segunda is ofc not covered as good as La Liga) and it would be hard to directly compare considering Pedri played in a lower division anyway. OTOH he was 4 years younger at the time than Moleiro now so that kind of make up for a difference in a level of competition imo.

Don't get me wrong, we could do a lot worse (for example spending 50m+ on Diaz) than sign Moleiro for 15-20m. I think we could find a role for him and he would improve just playing alongside better players and in an ultra-offensive system. I could be wrong but as said I don't think his longterm future is as a winger and with Yamal's creativity on one side and Rapha's workrate (and end product which will hopefully continue next season as well though I don't think he can repeat this season) what we are lacking upfront is that explosiveness we've lost with Dembele's departure. Something to keep defenses honest so they can't focus on Lamine so much. One of the reasons why I believe despite what most people considered a down season Nico would still be a great strategic signing is their chemistry and as we've seen in NT how they make each other better when defenders have to take both of them (each with their own strengths) into account. Getting a more mobile striker would take pressure (and we should def do that if we don't want to break him before he even turns 20) of Yamal as well but we know it won't happen this summer.

And from Moleiro's perspective I think he should (and will) go to a club where he'll be a starter or at least have a much more important role than he'd have here. I believe he likes Barca (although not sure how close he is to Pedri; they are a few years apart and were never team mates at UDLP) but AFAIK he's not a "born cule" like Pedri who's whole familly supported Barca for generations.

Ofc nothing wrong with that and I'm sure Moleiro would seriously consider our offer (if he would get one which I doubt will happen) but would Barca bench be the best career move at this point? Don't think so. And surely Barca's doors for the future wouldn't close for him if he'd go to a Sevilla, Betis, Sociedad or Villarreal (I believe they are the best possible fit and there are strong rumours they'll go after him after they sell Baena) and kill it there for 2-3 years. Yeah, he would be more expensive in future but also a more developed player and we would have a better idea what we are really buying and how/where to use him.

Time to buy him cheap (though that was never a realistic possibility with Las Palmas president always refering to his BO clause) and mould him into whatever player we wanted was a few years ago but we were just not in a financial position to do that. Or just as likely our Sporting Department liked him but weren't totally sold he's a "can't miss talent" like Pedri. Time will probably prove they were right. As said I've been a Moleiro fan since his breakthrough and while I think he'll have a (very) good career I doubt he'll ever make it to a really elite level like Pedri.

I think that video more confirmed what I said about Pedri. 90% of the time he gets a player off him with a clever touch or turn, then is able to take a few steps and release a pass.

Moleiro will dribble through a player and take off into space with his acceleration, type of thing Pedri just doesn't have that extra pep in his step to do. A very interesting player, and at only 21 there is a solid possibility he could adapt to our needs on the left side. People seem to believe Nico is good at beating his man and is a top dribble when he isnt. He's got fantastic pace which he's good at making runs and dribbling into space with, but he's not particularly great at beating his man 1 vs 1 or dribbling in tight spaces. Neither a prolific scorers, but I prefer someone like Moleiro. The fact he seems to want to get involved and links up well is a bonus. Fermin can dribble into space and creates with his runs, but hes also not going to blow anyone away with his dribbming.

20mil for him to be a young rotational winger, while also able to cover other areas, makes perfect sense to me. He will play plenty. That also leaves plenty money for a GK, defensive reinforcements and even a striker now if the opportunity presented itself. Lewa would have to deal with being a sub or agree to leave. Big money on a winger makes less and less sense to me with Raph and Yamal...especially when the players we're linked with are 2x to 3x the money, bigger salaries and not much better, if at all.

 

[ZenI]

Atleti signing 2m striker Nick Woltemade, aka, the German Peter Crouch.

Lad probably scored 50 under Flick.

Yo I'm not saying we should have signed Woltemad - but what I am saying is that our scouting department should fucking think outside the box once in a while. We have CB (if Christiansen isn't fit), LB, LW/RW/CF to cover next season - Deco should use his fucking head and get a gem or two. Instead he might be going for Diaz (whom I actually like lol). Deco knows 100000 times more about football and squads and coaching than me, but we've seen many times in the last 20ish years how "competent" people have fucked shit up. Sure, sometimes it's a coin-flip - not until they arrive and train with us we see they fit in or don't - but players like Roque? Ffs lol, he looked awful on YouTube "highlights"