Gerard Deulofeu - Once a Blue, always a Blue

[Moomin]

I've heard this is his aim as it's always been his dream to line up alongside Lee Cattermole.

He wants to add the premier league worst 11 next to his la Liga 11 trophy

 

[BlueToff]

He wants to add the premier league worst 11 next to his la Liga 11 trophy

He's coming back purely due to missing out on the 7th placed trophy in his last stint.

 

[Moomin]

He's coming back purely due to missing out on the 7th placed trophy in his last stint.

Excellent, that's the type of player we want here.

Not the likes of Lakaku who wants to win real trophies and play champions league football.

 

[Nymzee]

I think this reported low transfer fee and equally low buyback clause is a very clever move by Barcelona if true. They don't want him as it is so get rid of his - albeit low - wages and receive say £3-4m in the transfer fee. Say he does absolutely nothing for us, they're a few quid richer and haven't missed out. If he explodes for 1-2 seasons and some massive clubs come in for him they can either think:

1. Do we need him in our team? Let's take a small hit and buy him back.
2. We don't need him, but others do, lets take a small hit buying him back and then sell him on again for £20-25m.

Sneaky little Spanish flip-flops.

 

[Big Fat Sam]

Most protracted deal of the summer this.

And when I say deal, I don't really mean deal as it's clear we're not going to be signing him and it's all just Twitter BS.

Judas cart anyway ffs.

 

[Ashtonian]

Or, he could be in the premier league worst eleven after having a stinker of a season.

He could well be yeah, who knows.

Personally im going to start the season with the hope he was the future world star that was mooted when he first came to the club. If he ends up being crap then at least we tried to bring it out of him rather than opting for a average winger like downing or ashley young

 

[Coffee and TV]

Anyone considered that if he does well for us, we buy him out of his release clause of his contract fully owning him?

As long as he isnt doing a hazard esq season for us over the next 12 months or so then chances are we could offer to pay another 6 and keep him fully and be in control of any sales afterwards?

That article seemed to say that he's only got a released clause for 2 years, I don't think we'd need to worry about it too much.

 

[marnie]

I think you know when it's a goer when sky put on their transfer live page.......... he / we haven't had a mention regarding this deal................... so it's all a bit confusing.

 

[Dithering Dougie]

Has he signed yet? It's dragging on a bit now.

If you haven't read the last 6 pages you've missed his whole career in the blink of an eye, he's actually 39 now living in a villa on Tenerife with his 3rd wife and her mother. So far this morning Deulofeu has been bought then sold back to Barca, bought then sold on as a flop, bought then sold on to anyone, and bought then bought again to stop Barca buying him. Bought and won us the league and Champions league.

All this before he's actually been bought. Marvellous work.

 

[Ashtonian]

That article seemed to say that he's only got a released clause for 2 years, I don't think we'd need to worry about it too much.

Course we would if he is any good. id rather have to worry about the clause over the next 2 years than not have to. Shows what sort of player he will be for us if barca do want him back

 

[Professor Toffee]

If you haven't read the last 6 pages you've missed his whole career in the blink of an eye, he's actually 39 now living in a villa on Tenerife with his 3rd wife and her mother. So far this morning Deulofeu has been bought then sold back to Barca, bought then sold on as a flop, bought then sold on to anyone, and bought then bought again to stop Barca buying him. Bought and won us the league and Champions league.

All this before he's actually been bought. Marvellous work.

and Sunderland and Stoke have been trying to queer our pitch, dont forget!

 

[Dithering Dougie]

Course we would if he is any good. id rather have to worry about the clause over the next 2 years than not have to. Shows what sort of player he will be for us if barca do want him back

As yet he's not even left them.

 

[bobafro]

I think this reported low transfer fee and equally low buyback clause is a very clever move by Barcelona if true. They don't want him as it is so get rid of his - albeit low - wages and receive say £3-4m in the transfer fee. Say he does absolutely nothing for us, they're a few quid richer and haven't missed out. If he explodes for 1-2 seasons and some massive clubs come in for him they can either think:

1. Do we need him in our team? Let's take a small hit and buy him back.
2. We don't need him, but others do, lets take a small hit buying him back and then sell him on again for £20-25m.

Sneaky little Spanish flip-flops.

Why would Deulofeu agree to option 2?
He would sign a contract with Barca knowing that they only want him in order to sell him to the highest bidder? He would only go back to Barca if he thought he was going to get into the team, in my opinion.

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

Has he signed yet?

Do we need to buy Ijjy and Co some extra Kleenex for all the fapping they're about do when he puts pen to paper?

Lemon Curry?

 

[Raino85]

I think you know when it's a goer when sky put on their transfer live page.......... he / we haven't had a mention regarding this deal................... so it's all a bit confusing.

Sky are far to busy trying to sell Kane to Man Utd. Which is never going to happen, you can vault me on that. He will be a spurs player on 1st of September but they know people will use "sky bet" to place bets on him going to utd plus they get click bait to the website.
And if they aren't busy with that they are to busy with Pogba to any of the elite teams depending on what time of day it is and pushing the Kovacic to Liverpool deal.