Bale to united is the obvious last transfer of the window. For 400m.
Bale to united is the obvious last transfer of the window. For 400m.
Tim Vickery started this rumour last week and it's fucked and multiplied like wildfire since.Originally Posted by niko_cee
There doesn't seem to be a shred of evidence for it though, so avarice seems much more likely.
They should only offer him half of that when he comes to actually sign and dare him to go crawling back.
That would be fun if footballers had, you know, honour.
I can't see anyone playing in France winning it anyway. Even if he scores Cricket numbers it's still only fucking France.
He'll have a chance if they win the Champions League.
He still needs to do more though. He needs to outscore either messi or ronaldo AND win the champions league in my opinion. Messi and ronaldo have moved the benchmark on what needs to be done in order to win the award.
No one gives a hoot about the CL in a World Cup year, if he wins the latter and is top scorer then he might get the award. I still don't see what's so amazing about individual trophies anyway.
Maybe the Champions League and a World Cup, I can't see France counting for much. Bayern Munich are always under-represented and they are in a better league.
Sky's breaking news now is that La Liga have refused to accept the payment for Neymar's release clause, because the money 'isn't in accordance with FFP rules'
La Liga could break PSG if they get investigated.
What has La Liga got to do with anything?
The Spanish league own Neymar? When did they turn into the MLS?
Surely La Liga are involved in upholding FFP rules? If they know it is against them, presumably they can step in?
A French/Spanish dispute with a heavy dose of Brazil and Qatar, not sure it gets any more corrupt than that.
Although, surely it would be the French mob that would block it. Barcelona (for once) are doing nothing wrong, and they'd be La Liga's responsibility.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/40814854
In Spain a player must buy himself out of his contract.
This is done by depositing the amount of the buyout clause with La Liga - Spain's equivalent of the Premier League - to release the player from his contract. The league then passes the money to the selling club.
"We can confirm that the lawyers of the player have come to La Liga to deposit the clause and that it has been rejected," La Liga told BBC Sport.
Mental.
If the BBC exists for one thing it's to put sub-clauses like 'La Liga - Spain's equivalent of the Premier League' into its football articles.
Soo...what now? It's not going to happen?
Drama
It'll happen, Barcelona are trying to save face, they've essentially had done to them what they have done to countless teams over the years, and they don't like it.
This part made me laugh though, from the comments from La Liga;
"Neymar is being taken by a financially-doped team that competes with an advantage"
As if the TV rights and money hasn't been heavily skewed Barcelona/Real Madrid in La Liga for how many years.
Test.
Maybe for a season we should change the rules of football so that matches are not decided by goals, but by the referee and his assistants having a vote at kickoff time about which team has the better moral case for victory.
The Fairplay table as the biggest Championship in the world.
Supposedly:
Qatar Sports Investment are paying Neymar c. €300m to be an ambassador for the 2022 World Cup - contract signed in Qatar at 0% tax.
He'll then buy himself out of his Barcelona contract and sign for PSG.
What's left from the €300m is his to keep (c. €78m). When that's split over 6 years (supposed length of his PSG contact), he'll earn roughly €40m a year net over the duration of the contract - with the contract itself working out at roughly €30m p/year + bonuses.
How can anyone say that a transfer goes against FFP, to do that you'd need access to the other clubs' accounts from the future.
The take to end all takes:
People who don't understand football attempting to talk about it is great. The giveaway sign is when they say 'Premiere League' as if there's a red carpet outside it.
That is quite brilliant and (together with the retarded buy out clause mechanism in Spain) has completely broken FFP.
Looking at the Financial Fair Play document, article 46b (4), it says:
Would 'Qatar Sports Investment' paying him £300 million to buy out his contract get away with that? I'm not sure.An entity may be excluded from the reporting perimeter only if:
a) its activities are entirely unrelated to the football activities defined in paragraph
3 above and/or the locations, assets or brand of the football club; or
b) it is immaterial compared with all the entities that form the reporting perimeter
and it does not perform any of the football activities defined in paragraph 3 a)
and b) above; or
c) the football activities it performs are already entirely reflected in the financial
statements of one of the entities included in the reporting perimeter.
So am I getting it right that he's paying Barcelona himself to become a free agent supposedly with money he's gotten - 5 years in advance - to be an advocate for a World Cup which - supposedly (referring to Jims post above) is not related to the "football activities" he would then go about doing for whichever club decides to sign him on a Free, whether that is Yeovil or PSG...?
I mean, in theory that's all fine and all because there's technically no connection between his Ambassador role and Football (they couldv'e gotten Tiger Woods to do it couldn't they if they very well wanted to).
But you have got to think, that even a Sheik or the Qatari Foundation This&That or whatever, wouldn't want to just hand out 300 million Euros to a player where there are NO legal documents in place stating what he is meant to do with those 300 million Euros.
"Lad, he's 300 milli. Do what you want of course, we just have a suggestion (and it ain't Yeovil mate). PS we know jihadis"
The seething hyporisy of the Spanish is the best bit in all this.
Hopefully it leads to the (grossly unfair) financial 'fair' (lol) play rules being binned.
Sadly that has been "legit" in as much as they've bullied a load of spineless turkeys into voting for Christmas.As if the TV rights and money hasn't been heavily skewed Barcelona/Real Madrid in La Liga for how many years.
I can see why it would be annoying for Barcelona, I mean they've always conducted themselves with impeccable honesty and grace in the transfer market.
Oh no sorry, I meant to write the exact opposite of that.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/40814854
So he's technically a free agent now, right?
So now he can't even be considered the highest transfer fee of all time can he? It's not as if PSG paid that money to Barcelona now.
He should sign for Madrid now.
Unless Figo and every other major transfer that has happened under this mechanism has been considered a free transfer the yes, yes he can.
Oh I didn't realize this was common, sorry.
What an odd photo the Guardian have chosen for one of the Neymar articles.
Wenger is quite good on stuff like this.
I'm just linking Guardian stuff. Oh well.
After weeks of seemingly interminable haggling over clauses and agent fees Kelechi Iheanacho has signed for Leicester City. £25m with a £50m buy back clause. Think he'll do well for us.
Does this seal Coutinho to Bartha then? Bit torn on that really. On one hand he's their best player but on the other hand they'd get loads of cash and he's a bit piss and wind anyway.
I don't think I've ever seen him in full flight, but he's always looked very quick over five or ten yards so presumably that's Vardy edging towards the bin.
Supposedly he plays slightly deeper for Nigeria and had done at youth level for Man City so I'd imagine it's Okazaki for the bin for now.
Well that's upsetting. Okazaki and his little legs scampering around has been one of the better things about the Premier League the last couple of years.
Mes que un release clause
If only I had faith in the French tax authorities.
Say what you will about Wenger, but it always sort of struck me that his way of being generally reasonable and fairly gentlemanly (is that a word?) has been one of his better sides throughout all these years, but it's also epitomizing his decreased frequency of success - these days nutjobs like Mourinho who care about winning at any cost is what you really need to actually go on and win stuff.What an odd photo the Guardian have chosen for one of the Neymar articles.
Wenger is quite good on stuff like this.
I'm just linking Guardian stuff. Oh well.
Maybe Ronaldo will turn out to be a great manager.
I'm sorry but this really pisses me off as a United supporter.
Why?
They sit there and brag about all the money they have and "we can do things other clubs can only dream of!" and "watch this space!!!!" but never actually fucking do anything.
Meanwhile Real Madrid are gonna spend a trillion dollars on Mbappe, PSG has convinced Neymar to play in Ligue 1, etc. etc.
It's so stupid.
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