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  1. gvt2000

    Barca Transfers and Rumors

    Coutinho's natural position is Attacking mid or winger, he's not a CM. Bringing a winger/AM that would cost most (if not all) of our transfer budget to replace Iniesta would be a huge gamble.
  2. gvt2000

    Barca Transfers and Rumors

    Lewandoski will be 30 next season. Paying close to 100 million plus his huge salary for a player who has 2 or 3 good seasons left in him is economic suicide. The only way such transfers are viable are without a transfer fee. AS for my age, i've probably been following barcelona longer than...
  3. gvt2000

    Barca Transfers and Rumors

    Isco and Modric were Barcelona fans once upon a time too, Lewandowski being a Real fan means nothing. I'd only be ok with him signing for us if it was on a free transfer: paying salary+transfer fee is out of the question for a 31 year old. We need to be scouting sup21 players, not players on the...
  4. gvt2000

    Barca Transfers and Rumors

    We can't. La Liga would only allow us an out-of-window transfer if the estimated injury time were to be 5.5 months or longer. We are allowed to sign club-less players as long as we have room in the squad (We do) but between that and giving the spot to one of our youth players, i know the one...
  5. gvt2000

    Barca Transfers and Rumors

    Anyone remember Freddy Adu? Lamela? Bojan? Drenthe? Robinho? It's very easy, in retrospect, to produce videos of established stars as kids and claim their talent showed even at that age but the truth is the world is filled with "future stars" who faded away into oblivion. I agree that we need...
  6. gvt2000

    Barca Transfers and Rumors

    Barcelona do it too, we just don't get as much press coverage as Real Madrid does.
  7. gvt2000

    Barca Transfers and Rumors

    Very poor planning (go figure) by the board to sign in January a player we ruled out in august when it was practically a done deal. Apparently its contingent on Arda or Andre Gomez leaving during the same window
  8. gvt2000

    Barca Transfers and Rumors

    In other news, Sport is now claiming that we're going to sign Seri come January. Apparently the reason we ruled him out was to focus the money on other priorities (Di Maria and Coutinho)
  9. gvt2000

    Barca Transfers and Rumors

    The logic is that a technical player like Arda looks better than he actually is when surrounded by players who are more defensive and most of the team's offence has to go through him. He's not shit, he's just never been one of the best midfielders in La Liga. Big difference
  10. gvt2000

    Barca Transfers and Rumors

    Like some have pointed out: Arda only looked good while at Atletico in comparison to his defense-oriented teammates and was most definitely nowhere near close to being one of La liga's best midfielders. Had he been as good as you make him out to be, Atletico would've noticed his absence instead...
  11. gvt2000

    Barca Transfers and Rumors

    Sport's now claiming Arda refuses to leave Barca for Galatasaray (probably because that would mean taking a paycut). Lets see how he likes not playing a single game in a World cup year (IF Turkey qualifies, of course)
  12. gvt2000

    Barca Transfers and Rumors

    My guess is that Arda's salary is probably too high for Galatasaray to pay in full, knowing we're desperate to get rid of him and being the only league that still has an open transfer market can't help either.
  13. gvt2000

    Barca Transfers and Rumors

    Spanish media claims we've loaned out Arda Turan to Galatasaray for 2 years. I'd be surprised if we don't end up paying for half of his salary to be honest.
  14. gvt2000

    Barca Transfers and Rumors

    He really didn't. He was a LB and only on rare occasions used as a CB while in Valencia.
  15. gvt2000

    Barca Transfers and Rumors

    Gomes and Alcacer are 24. They have their entire careers ahead of them. What experience? Here's a player who's best seasons were as left back, who had never gotten past champions league group stage and who had never played for a big team. Im glad i_bleed_blaugrana can see it too: Mathieu's...
  16. gvt2000

    Barca Transfers and Rumors

    Fabregas failed because he was played out of position. In our current squad, he'd be our best midfielder by a landslide. Arda Turan is a close second, he'll definitely win the title if he ends up leaving on a free transfer
  17. gvt2000

    Barca Transfers and Rumors

    The problem isn't Mathieu the player, its the 20 million euro, 30 year old transfer who left 3 years later for free. He would've been more than fine at 7-10 million. But like i said, Mathieu's just the poster man of our disastrous transfers over the years, transfers that keep repeating...
  18. gvt2000

    Barca Transfers and Rumors

    He was 29 when the season started. You're right though, 29 wouldn't have been bad if Vermaleen had been anywhere near as good as Godin, Bonucci or Thiago Silva instead of being an injury plagued ok-at-best player
  19. gvt2000

    Barca Transfers and Rumors

    You mean Villa, the player who managed to score close to 50 goals (including one in CL final) despite not playing in his natural position, that villa? This is the exact reasoning the board uses to justify paying promising-youngster-level money for 3 year old band-aid fixes. Hell, even Real...
  20. gvt2000

    Barca Transfers and Rumors

    How did Mathieu do his job again? Out of the 3 years he stayed in the team, he had 18 months of decent football TOPS. 18 months of decent football for 20m is disastrous planning, specially when the board rules out players like Marquinhos, Thiago Silva and hummels due to them being "too expensive"

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