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Transfers Summer 2020 Transfer Thread

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todd1882 said:
Just a question dear Sammy, can you tell me how old your boy Tripps was when he got his first cap. If you could help us out on that it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks bud.
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I’ve never claimed Trippier has world class potential though.
Big difference between the Wan Bissaka frenzy.

Trippier is what he is, and I appreciate him for that. He’s better than Wan Bissaka.
Probably why he’s in the England team and Wan Bissaka isn’t .
 
prinmemo said:
They’ve had very good managers. Bielsa, Tata Martino, etc. Always too dependent on Messi.
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They've always had a weird unbalanced squad that had too many similar options up front and nothing in the back. Plus Higuain chokes all the time in big matches.

Messi was otherworldly in 2014 making up for all of it himself, but he was quite poor in 2018, the worst I've seen him by far, not that that team didn't have a million other problems.
 
FightingIllini said:
They've always had a weird unbalanced squad that had too many similar options up front and nothing in the back. Plus Higuain chokes all the time in big matches.

Messi was otherworldly in 2014 making up for all of it himself, but he was quite poor in 2018, the worst I've seen him by far, not that that team didn't have a million other problems.
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He had like 33 goals and 26 assists this year so I think he is still pretty solid and in 2018 he had 56 goals and 21 assists. Not poor at all!!
 
AlabamaSpur said:
Messi told them he was leaving by fax and he’s got a clause that lets him leave on a free
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According to Barcelona, the clause expired in June - the pandemic was not in the contract.

This could still be Messi forcing the club's hand, as I'm sure his people know all about his contract.

But the fact is Barcelona received the fax - confirmed by the club. It's the biggest news in football in a very long time: Messi really wants to leave.
 
FightingIllini said:
I agree, but we're hypothesizing a scenario in which we have four prominent starter-class CB's, no true number 6, and as few as one proper senior fullback.

Somebody's gotta go somewhere.

(I think the actual answer is Skipp's loan and Gedson experimenting at RB are a dead giveaway that the decision to keep Ndombele has been made)
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3-4-3 I'd imagine in that scenario, with Hojbjerg-Lo Celso in the middle - or we can call it a 4-2-3-1 if we so choose, but there'd be 3 CBs and two wingbacks so whatever.

As for keeping Ndombele, I don't think that was really a debate - you generally don't bail on a young, talented player after one year in a new league and country that was plagued by injuries and a managerial change. Stranger things have happened though, who knows what kind of deals may be popping up in late September.
 
Ciro said:
According to Barcelona, the clause expired in June - the pandemic was not in the contract.

This could still be Messi forcing the club's hand, as I'm sure his people know all about his contract.

But the fact is Barcelona received the fax - they confirmed. It's the biggest news in football in a very long time: Messi really wants to leave.
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Pandemic = Force Majeure = Delay of Season = Couldn’t reasonably evalúate triggering that release clause. This is not something Barca will litigate.
 
BF3 said:
So a lock for Spurs then.
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