03 Sep 2015 13:27:15
After a very good display against Barnsley and now for his national team should we be worried that Barca may come back for GD, another goal albeit a peno and another assist seems to be getting better and better each game.
03 Sep 2015 13:39:45
Really? People are getting worried already? He only joined a couple of months ago!. Messi, Suarez and Neymar are not exactly pensioners, Messi and Suarez alone probably have over 5 years at the top. Calm down.
03 Sep 2015 13:54:32
Not panicking but if he carries on with those stats they are going to wonder why they ever got rid.
03 Sep 2015 14:09:26
I wouldn't be lancerboy. We all knew they were the terms so we'll just have to live with it. I'm actually afraid of the opposite. I think he should be getting more game time at Everton and am half afraid he'll go stale if he doesn't get more game time. Can't wait to see him in full flow. Seemed to me he has improved on passing. Passed across the goal against Barnsley when I thought he should of shot himself.
03 Sep 2015 14:48:28
Yeh agree he should start seems like a player that wants to play every game as long as he stops flapping his arms about when nobody passes to him. He's magic.
03 Sep 2015 15:21:02
Barcelona put buy back clauses on all of their sales but rarely activate them.
Just sit back and enjoy what he does.
{Ed002's Note - It is far from all of them.}
03 Sep 2015 16:28:13
Don't forget he has to want to go. Barca can't just come knocking and that's it he's off.
He came to us because he wants to play most weeks. even if Barca do come back can they guarantee he will play, I don't think so.
As for playing time at the moment, I'm not sure if he is fully fit. Every game he has played or come on he has felt his hamstring and I wonder if there is a little niggle still there. Maybe it's best he comes in slowly. I'd hate to see him out for 2 or 3 months.
03 Sep 2015 17:37:39
I was thinking the same BlueJohnUns but he's after playing 90mins for Spain U21's so he surely can't be that bad, injury wise. God forbid, I would hate for an injury to keep him out for a couple of months.
03 Sep 2015 18:57:48
the buy back clause, what does this mean. if they want him, we have to sell him, because I thought it was first refusal clause if we wanted to sell him.
{Ed002's Note - It would typically give the club an option to buy back the player at a fixed price at a certain point in time - if the player agrees.
So if they sold Everton Messi for £20M with a buy back clause for £30M falling due in two seasons time, Everton would not be able to block the move if Barcelona and the player wanted it.
First refusal is what it says. If Everton are due to sell Messi in two years time and Barcelona have first refusal, if Everton accept Bristol Rovers bid of £30M, the Barcelona have the option (first refusal) of taking him at the same price - if the player agrees.}
03 Sep 2015 19:24:03
thanks ed002, that makes sense now