Quote from: tomahawk9 on August 13, 2019, 12:59:51 PM

Guy in the picture is definitely Eric Abidal (Barcelona's director of football), look at his head lol Grin

Btw, Neymar to Barcelona /odds/ @1.38...I think it's happening! And Coutinho (part of the swap deal + cash) to PSG /odds/ @2.50 Shocked

Never look at Bookmakers odds.

Never.

The odds are based on bets from people, the value is adjusted on the volume of bets on one bet to permit the booke to pay players.

For example on the Guardiola Saga at Juventus here in Italy we had one week with Guardiola at 1.1 and the following with Sarri at 1.1 even one week with Mou near 1.5.

It only depends where people bet, the more they bet on one side (cause they listen to rumors) more the bet will go down.

Quote from: tomahawk9 on August 13, 2019, 01:46:29 PM

@coinlocket$ probably has more info about this transfer saga, but IMO I think Pogba will stay in Manchester, why would Ed Woodward and Solskjaer want to sell Pogba now that the transfer window is closed? They'd have to pretty damn stupid to weaken the squad by selling him :/

We have 2 lines of thinking here.

1 They can still have Pogba (or Neymar) if they can sell Dybala for cash to PSG or other.

From Dybala they can get 70M, they also want to sell Matuidi to PSG for 15-20m. They "only" need to add 50M to be even on the market.

(idk how others team can spend how much they want without the financial fairplay, it seems to be active only in Italy, Barca is at -100M for now and RMadrid at -188)

2 The market for Juventus for new players is over, we got an "insider rumor today" where ManU is very pissed with Juventus and Raiola for the tentative of a deal for Pogba, they are pissed for the Lukaku-Dybala thing and for the missed deal with Mandzukic.
For Mandzukic was done in the evening for around 15M , the following morning Mario called them and said No Thankyou.

For these reasons, they seem unlikely open to selling Pogba at Juventus.

Beside the point 2, we have other rumors for Real Madrid here in Italy.
They can maybe offer 160M for Pogba.

Well, this can mean only 1 thing, they call themselves out from Neymar (I think they cannot take both of them).

My personal thought about Pogba.

He wants Juventus, he wants to leave from ManU but I'm not sure if Juventus can pay the operation, they can but they need to sell before.

He is doing on Instagram the same (reversed) things he was doing when he was on Juventus before leaving for Manchester.
Back in days, he started posting photo stories and videos about him wearing rec cloths, now look at his Instagram and he is doing the same thing posting white an black things.

Those are the latest 2 stories now deleted.

And a lot more on the last 2 months

Pogba will cost around 150M (Juventus is even this market session, Real is at -188 and if they take Pogba they will go ~ -340M).

If Pogba will come to Juventus they need to sell Pjanic ~70m or EmreCan ~50m.

Pogba will cost for Juventus a salary of 12+25(12) 15M/y with taxes

If Pogba will go to Real they will go at ~340 and they need to sell at least ISCO ~80m Mordric ~20 and maybe one more.

Pogba will cost for Real a salary of 12+~12 24M/y with taxes

So if they want they theoretically give to him 19M/y to spend 24M (with taxes) as Real.

What do I think?

He wants Juve, Juve can economically have him if they sell Dybala, ManU can Hate Juve for what happened with Dybala.
Man U have not a top player replacement.

And he will stay at ManU.