Went to Paris instead of Welcome to Messi Manchester

[Mase]

Yep. He’s going to stay another season. By which time the current president will be gone and he’ll sign another extension.

Really embarrassing how as a club we get sucked in to this shit every single summer.

To be fair Mase, I don't think the club did get sucked in. I think it was the media and the fans.

Pep flying to Barca. Tixi flying to Barca. Reports we were close on other signings before this all happened a few weeks ago.

[salford city]

Yep. He’s going to stay another season. By which time the current president will be gone and he’ll sign another extension.

Really embarrassing how as a club we get sucked in to this shit every single summer.

To be fair Mase, I don't think the club did get sucked in. I think it was the media and the fans.

Pep flying to Barca. Tixi flying to Barca. Reports we were close on other signings before this all happened a few weeks ago.

Messi is and was a bonus. I'll be fucked off if the required CB doesn't show up before next week is out

[Mase]

Yep. He’s going to stay another season. By which time the current president will be gone and he’ll sign another extension.

Really embarrassing how as a club we get sucked in to this shit every single summer.

To be fair Mase, I don't think the club did get sucked in. I think it was the media and the fans.

Pep flying to Barca. Tixi flying to Barca. Reports we were close on other signings before this all happened a few weeks ago.

Messi is and was a bonus. I'll be fucked off if the required CB doesn't show up before next week is out

CB, LB, Aguero replacement that we need to get in now so we’re not panicking next summer. So many areas that need improving more than getting fucked about by that little midget every summer.

[london blue 2]

Reminds me of the ronaldinho farce.

What frustrates me is the multiple city reporters who have bandwagon’d to convince the fans that there’s actually a chance.

Thankfully, like most I’ve remained very cynical throughout.

[dick dastardley]

If he stays and runs his contract down, that means he was contracted till next yr, not walk after the CL.
We should stay well clear if we have to wait 12 mths.
Absolute shit club Barca on the decline once Messi departs la Liga will be a bit like serie a boring as took

[sheblue]

Personally I hope he stays where he is. As said 100000 times before he is NOT what we need, yeah fun in the short term but nothing more.
We really need to move on (we probably are anyway) and get our main priorities sorted, the new season looms.

PS I do not at all think MCFC reflects bad in this at all, the club have been quiet all along and played it correctly.

[City64]

Significantly Messi,s odds with the bookmakers joining City have shortened today . Somebody definitely knows something but it has become the circus we expected and a huge distraction.

[Harry Dowd scored]

Significantly Messi,s odds with the bookmakers joining City have shortened today . Somebody definitely knows something but it has become the circus we expected and a huge distraction.

The only winners when this circus is done will be the bookies

[salford city]

Yep. He’s going to stay another season. By which time the current president will be gone and he’ll sign another extension.

Really embarrassing how as a club we get sucked in to this shit every single summer.

To be fair Mase, I don't think the club did get sucked in. I think it was the media and the fans.

Pep flying to Barca. Tixi flying to Barca. Reports we were close on other signings before this all happened a few weeks ago.

Messi is and was a bonus. I'll be fucked off if the required CB doesn't show up before next week is out

CB, LB, Aguero replacement that we need to get in now so we’re not panicking next summer. So many areas that need improving more than getting fucked about by that little midget every summer.

My concern here is that I dont think we were even looking at a replacement for Sergio in this window. We will probably wait until the end of the season to go out for his replacement by which point ut will be obvious to all potential selling clubs that we are ripe for another arse raping

[Tokyo Blue]

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That’s easy for you to say.

[sheblue]

Significantly Messi,s odds with the bookmakers joining City have shortened today . Somebody definitely knows something but it has become the circus we expected and a huge distraction.

That means he will stay.

[BlueinBosnia]

Significantly Messi,s odds with the bookmakers joining City have shortened today . Somebody definitely knows something but it has become the circus we expected and a huge distraction.

Or it's a case of nobody knows anything, but the bookies need to balance their slates.

[PeterParker]

As with the CAS, look at what Cheesy posted.
That is the closest to the truth we will ever get.

[patrickblue]

Significantly Messi,s odds with the bookmakers joining City have shortened today . Somebody definitely knows something but it has become the circus we expected and a huge distraction.

Or it's a case of nobody knows anything, but the bookies need to balance their slates.

Seems like it may have been lost in translation.

In the video the journalist asks him if they're considering Messi to stay on for another year and he says "No sé" (I don't know) but the video puts the subtitle as "Si" (Yes). I don't blame the journalist since she's from Spain and our slurring can make "no sé" sound like a "sí" if said quick enough, but an Argentinean can tell anyway.​

This apparently from an Argentinian on Reddit

[PeterParker]

Significantly Messi,s odds with the bookmakers joining City have shortened today . Somebody definitely knows something but it has become the circus we expected and a huge distraction.

Or it's a case of nobody knows anything, but the bookies need to balance their slates.

Seems like it may have been lost in translation.

In the video the journalist asks him if they're considering Messi to stay on for another year and he says "No sé" (I don't know) but the video puts the subtitle as "Si" (Yes). I don't blame the journalist since she's from Spain and our slurring can make "no sé" sound like a "sí" if said quick enough, but an Argentinean can tell anyway.​

This apparently from an Argentinian on Reddit

Is that argentinian also on Twitch? goes by the name Kun by any chance?

[Harry Dowd scored]

Significantly Messi,s odds with the bookmakers joining City have shortened today . Somebody definitely knows something but it has become the circus we expected and a huge distraction.

Or it's a case of nobody knows anything, but the bookies need to balance their slates.

Seems like it may have been lost in translation.

In the video the journalist asks him if they're considering Messi to stay on for another year and he says "No sé" (I don't know) but the video puts the subtitle as "Si" (Yes). I don't blame the journalist since she's from Spain and our slurring can make "no sé" sound like a "sí" if said quick enough, but an Argentinean can tell anyway.​

This apparently from an Argentinian on Reddit

This seems plausible, my Spanish friend pronounce no se No Say (I don’t know) I believe that South American Spanish it would be more joined together nossay which could be heard as si if said quickly.

[PrezIke]

Yep. He’s going to stay another season. By which time the current president will be gone and he’ll sign another extension.

Really embarrassing how as a club we get sucked in to this shit every single summer.

I don't really see this. Barca have far less chance of winning CL before he's finished.

[PrezIke]

Personally I hope he stays where he is. As said 100000 times before he is NOT what we need, yeah fun in the short term but nothing more.
We really need to move on (we probably are anyway) and get our main priorities sorted, the new season looms.

PS I do not at all think MCFC reflects bad in this at all, the club have been quiet all along and played it correctly.

You do notice the finishing thread?

Strange to me to say we don't need the best player in the world when we have fans crying about finishing and begging for a striker or to dump Jesus and whinge on about Sterling or worried that Aguero is injured every season and how that impacts goals.

Yes, we can survive without him and other concerns in defence - although I think Ake is an underrated signing - need addressing, but Messi would transform us to another level and we'd easily become the the most feared team in the world for good reason.

His presence alone, surrounded by the talent we already have would mean more clear cut chances and do you see how many goals the man scores? Aguero is not even on his level.

[PrezIke]

I don't think this is over at all and suspect there is a very good chance it eventually will be worked out for him to go.

Messi can leave on a free after this season. A new contract? Really? To play for Koeman and a declining side?

Barca are trying to get the most they can and they are a mess so this is a lot of politics.

It would also be beyond mad to hold him and have a circus all season and then lose out on getting zero and that being the legacy of how things ended.

The idea he would stay as some sort of power play, which Gab Marcotti thought at first, he even now realises this is likely wrong.

One good point about Messi not being able to terminate on 10 June was that CAS had not ruled on our case with UEFA so that is an interesting thing I had forgotten, other than the season was not over, but I suspect he was already thinking about this by then.

[PrezIke]

To defend Barca on keeping him, I gather they could contend they can better plan for the season where they are already having financial issues and can let him leave for free next summer if he doesn't accept their own contract offer (assuming they make one).

Remember you can sign a contract for the next season with another European club in January so he could already agree to join us then.

Not ideal as he'll be older and we'd have to wait and then who knows what happens as other clubs will maneuver, etc.

That might be the worst case.