We’ve had reports saying they’d pay up to 150m, but also reports saying they will only take him for free. So saying City won’t give a dime for him is just speculation. Imo they would offer a deal up to 100m if it comes down to that.
It’s not as simple as just saying “I want to leave” publicly. Even Bale hasn’t done that with Madrid just hinted strongly in his last interview. From Barca’s point of view it’s worse if he says that publicly too, because it puts us in a worse position to negotiate with City.
Problem is their wage bill is third highest behind us and you, yet their team is just full of average players. Pretty tragic when you compare it to Pirlo, Vidal, Pogba, Marchisio midfield when we beat them in the final.
Luis Suarez has agreed personal terms with Juventus, but Barca want to sell the forward in order to get funds for priority signings. Juventus only want to pay a symbolic fee for the Uruguayan. [ara]
Symbolic Fee FC
[ESPN] | At the moment, there is no meeting between Bartomeu and Jorge Messi. It could be this afternoon or maybe tomorrow. Messi's father is still in his office, and Bartomeu has left camp nou.
Matter of hours FC.