Today’s tittle-tattle is a blessed release
Manchester City are doing a bit of maths in order to work out if they can sign Lionel Messi from Crisis Club Barcelona and stay within the bounds of Uefa’s entirely uncontroversial FFP regulations. ESPN reckons Barcelona’s “official stance” is that the Argentinian is not for sale, and that the club have pointed potential buyers to the preposterous £625m release clause necessary to prize the 33-year-old away from his contract.
But, so the story goes, City would be interested in saving Messi from the shambles Barcelona have become if the figure involved was ‘reasonable’. Messi is reportedly unimpressed at the decision to call on Ronald Koeman to try and turn things around, and it’s also being reported that club and player may strike a release deal similar to the one that saw Cristiano Ronaldo leave Real Madrid and sign for Juventus.
Continue reading…Today’s tittle-tattle is a blessed releaseManchester City are doing a bit of maths in order to work out if they can sign Lionel Messi from Crisis Club Barcelona and stay within the bounds of Uefa’s entirely uncontroversial FFP regulations. ESPN reckons Barcelona’s “official stance” is that the Argentinian is not for sale, and that the club have pointed potential buyers to the preposterous £625m release clause necessary to prize the 33-year-old away from his contract.But, so the story goes, City would be interested in saving Messi from the shambles Barcelona have become if the figure involved was ‘reasonable’. Messi is reportedly unimpressed at the decision to call on Ronald Koeman to try and turn things around, and it’s also being reported that club and player may strike a release deal similar to the one that saw Cristiano Ronaldo leave Real Madrid and sign for Juventus. Continue reading…
