We need Elneny now and I'm keen to see how he fares during Xhaka's suspension. Him on form would be a huge bonus. I've seen unverified that Tomiyasu's played 16 games as a DM. Might need a bit more of that when we lose Partey and Elneny.

have any of our moves actually been confirmed yet?

This video shows a bit more of Tomiyasu's quality on the ball. He looks a good, versatile player. Should gain a bit more power in the next year or two as well given he's only 22.

Don Pacifico wrote:

To be fair, if we sold them at the prices those Turkish clubs were likely willing to pay, you'd still get a tonne of people saying we sold for peanuts and that we're a terrible selling club. All of which may be true but at some point, you have to start changing the perception that we're easy sellers, even if it's a tad painful in the short term.

Not sure what you are on about, constantly missing the point but 100% of this forum I'm sure will be delighted to let Elneny and Kolasinac go on a free let alone any fee to clubs or what.

KingslandBarge wrote:

We need Elneny now and I'm keen to see how he fares during Xhaka's suspension. Him on form would be a huge bonus. I've seen unverified that Tomiyasu's played 16 games as a DM. Might need a bit more of that when we lose Partey and Elneny.

White is more likely to play at DM than Tomi

Clrnc wrote:

Talking about 40m, can't believe Atleti willing to let Saul go for just 40m euros next summer in the loan option.

Hope we do well enough this year to have a chance to sign Joao Felix next summer. Atleti willing to let him go for the right price  because their finance cant take it.

Joao Felix is the dream signing.

His eye for goal, dribbling, drops deep. 

The perfect false nine.

Elneny is garbage. Most people would be happy to see the back of him. AMN has just been forced to stay, should be ahead of Elneny in midfield at the very least.

Ricky1985 wrote:

This video shows a bit more of Tomiyasu's quality on the ball. He looks a good, versatile player. Should gain a bit more power in the next year or two as well given he's only 22.

Fuck me. Is he left or right footed?

Very good defending one v one. We basically don’t have any fullbacks who are good at that

Can Flo still go on loan to the Championship after the window closes?

Yup.

I can’t believe we’re going to lose Eddie on a free. From his perspective, how the hell do you choose to not play football for a year over joining Crystal Palace for a slightly more modest wage?

I'm more sympathetic to our stance when it comes to guys like Eddie where we wouldn't have gotten much money anyway. He looked very good in preseason. Maybe he gets a bit of playing time this season, does well, and we manage to swing an extension? It's not really an outlandish idea. I think it's fine to keep him around for that possibility, same way we did with Balogun last season. It might work out or it might not but those ten million that were on the table aren't going to make a jot of difference either way. We would probably just have used them to pay Willian to fuck off.

On a different note, it looks like Barca have messed up Griezmann's return to Atletico by not getting the deal done in time

It feels good to know that no matter what we're not the worst run big club in Europe.

I’m going to miss seeing videos of these guys.

lol hilarious show

barca fans after seeing that griezmann is being replaced by luuk de jong:

Romano confirms Griezmann to Atletico and De Jong to Barca. Both deals will go through.

Bryant wrote:

lol hilarious show

barca fans after seeing that griezmann is being replaced by luuk de jong:

aftv owe these chaps a few royalty checks

Wait till he sees Barca world class attack now. Totally transformed by Koeman

Depay De Jong Braithwaite

after being blessed with what they've been blessed with in the past, they deserve that. like we would have deserved our current fate if we had done a treble in the invincible season, but since it was just the league, we don't deserve this.

If there were anything like karma Barcelona would be in Tercera Division for their 09-17 years.

Meatwad wrote:

damn that's a long era of dominance.

Yeah but like Bayern & PSG they have a financial advantage over the rest of the league along with RM, with both clubs taking 65% of total TV revenues from La Liga - not just the top division = the entire league ffs.

That was the case some ten years ago when there was no collective TV marketing deal for the league and every club had to negotiate on their own. Under the current deal Madrid and Barca take less than 25% of La Liga TV money home.

Also Barcelona didn't dominate because of their money, they did it because they had the undisputed best ever and two top 10 ever players come through their academy at roughly the same time and a bunch of other World class players which they paid nothing for.
No other club has ever had that kind of luck and none probably ever will, although ironically if PSG weren't owned by the QIA they actually could have a similar generation looking at the roughly 2000 potentially world class players born in Paris's banlieues between 1998 and 2005.

The only team that spent more than Barca in the 2010s was City. Sure they had some good players come through but they spent a fortune supplementing the team with more stars and they paid everyone astronomical wages.

Yeah but the core of that team was from their academy, Messi Xavi Iniesta Busquets Piqué Puyol Pedro. They did spend but they earned a ton of money as well during that time to be fair.
Wasn't the point anyway I was talking about if people "deserve" some barren years because of how well they've been doing it'd be Barca because of how their academy produced the aforementioned plus Cesc Alba etc all at the same time.

Precisely. Thanks to that academy crop, even a lot of expensive transfer markets flops made zero difference for them in the end.

Links with Serge Aurier who is out of contract

@lorddulaarsenal wrote:

Links with Serge Aurier who is out of contract

Only if Cedric accepts to go. We are trying to offload him and Turkish clubs are interested but he doesn't want to leave as he won't get such a long contract and high wages there.

No fucking way. He's utterly brainless in his defending and rash. Clown defender.

100% agreed. He would be a worse signing than Willian or even Silvestre.

Don’t want either. Wouldn’t fit the possession game

jones wrote:

That was the case some ten years ago when there was no collective TV marketing deal for the league and every club had to negotiate on their own. Under the current deal Madrid and Barca take less than 25% of La Liga TV money home.

Also Barcelona didn't dominate because of their money, they did it because they had the undisputed best ever and two top 10 ever players come through their academy at roughly the same time and a bunch of other World class players which they paid nothing for.
No other club has ever had that kind of luck and none probably ever will, although ironically if PSG weren't owned by the QIA they actually could have a similar generation looking at the roughly 2000 potentially world class players born in Paris's banlieues between 1998 and 2005.

https://interestingfootball.com/la-liga-prize-money-tv-rights-money-distribution/

so 10% goes towards the 2nd division
whilst 50% of the remainder is shared equally amongst the 20 top flight clubs,
then half of the remainder goes towards 'merit' based upon success over last 5 seasons
and the last of the money goes towards those clubs with the biggest resources.
An earlier article indicated that only the top half of the table were eligible for the last 2 payments. 

The changes were made in 2015, and an earlier article indicated they were not introduced all at once and only came into full effect with season 2019/20.

Yes Barca and RM no longer receive more than 50% of total revenues, however only the big3 received over 100mE of the revenues, with the top earner getting almost double the revenues of the club receiving the 4th most revenues = it's still skewed in favour of the big3.

I refuse to accept spurs sloppy seconds. we get bantered enough with Chelsea's sloppy seconds as it is