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Mentally weak Andre Gomes price drops


Barcelona drop Andre Gomes price

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Nobody willing to pay Barcelona asking price for Andre Gomes


Transfer Talk - Andre Gomes

Why you simply don't pay a player high wages in relation to everyone else, we have seen it before at Spurs with trouble moving players on. Emmanuel Adebayor was a case in point. He was quite happy to be lazy and just pick up his wages.

Barcelona have the same issue with Andre Gomes. Nobody is prepared to pay £30.94 million (€35m) Barcelona have been wanting for him, nor have they been interested in taking him on loan if they have to pay his full wages.


Reports in the Catalan press now say Barcelona have reduced their asking price to £19,45 million (€22m) if he is sold abroad. They paid £30.94 million (€35m) plus £17.68 million (€20m) which totalled £48.63 million (€55m) for him.

They have tried to recoup their money, but they always insert a two or three-year buyback clause into any deal at fixed prices, which is of no use to the club buying him.

He could improve at a new club and they could lose him without being able to do a single thing about it and that is no way to build a team.

Reportedly Barcelona have so far rejected four inquiries for him from Tottenham, Juventus, Lazio and Valencia. Diario Sport have also reported the Valencia offer was a loan deal. Other reports suggest Arsenal want him, but he is likely to want a club playing Champions League football. Wolves are another name thrown at the story.

The worry is that he couldn't hack it at Barcelona, he has shown himself to be mentally weak, fine as a big fish in a small pond at Valencia, but when having to fight for a place and produce when given the chance, he couldn't. Would he, therefore, produce in the Premier League if he wasn't a regular starter?

Barcelona have been trying to include him in deals for players to reduce their price as they have financial constraints amid Financial Fair Play break-even rules after the purchase of Coutinho last summer. He hasn't been a huge success and there is talk of moving him to a wide position and bringing in a new central midfield playmaker, hence looking at Christian Eriksen.

The quoted £167 million (€190m) asking price makes the Danish international a player out of their financial league at the moment.

COYS

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5 comments

  1. No doubt the next gem from ITK will be Ashley Young to us...JHC!
  2. and the UK thinks that the USA are your friends?
    • Of course they are. Haven't you heard what Maradonna's been saying? The USA ref helped us the whole game through 'because both of our countries speak English as their main language'.

      Has he ever listened to an American talking!!?!

      COYS!!
  3. added Harry Maguire to my WC wish list...gets better every time he plays...
  4. Some good stuff from HM, and he may even improve further. However, my worry would be his concentration and choices - particularrly near the starts of games. He's already nearly cost us a couple of times at the World Cup.

    However, to be fair to him, he's also contributed well over all.