The Swiss magazine L'Illustré confirms that Man City has offered 200 million euros for Messi and publishes the offer signed by Txiki Begiristain
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illustre.chPosted Sep 8, 2020, 3:12 PM UTC
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illustre.chThe offer: https://imgur.com/a/dbHXYtl
edit: Arnaud Bédat is pretty well known here in Switzerland. He's a journalist investigator. he was the one who got death threats from Pavelko (President of Ukraine Football Federation) after he shared evidence of corruption with UEFA.
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I simply have to assume this is fake.
I often deal with writing emails containing large figures (though no where near this large obviously) and you are 100% not to write out offical figures with abbreviations like this. It seems incredibly unlikely anyone in this position would write as casually as "200m" and not "200,000,000.00."
The language just seems off across the whole letter honestly. Far too casual for what is being discussed.
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Yep not buying this. But on the 1-in-100m chance it’s real? OP is a legend.
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If not entirely fake, its clearly just an internal email chain where someone copied the body out and put in his signature.
No way the official offer letter would be written so colloquially and submitted with a Re: email header on it.
Not just fake, lazily fake.
Would be like posting a text chain where tziki goes, I guess we could swing 200mm over two payments, and then screen shotting the text and putting you official signature on it and calling it an “offer letter”
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Work in a bank and with these numbers all day and the abbreviations are the norm. Easier to read and not make mistakes. Common with clients and internally. All communications would use this method except for legally binding contracts etc.
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You mean legit businessmen don't put large figures in bold?
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so ~300m (200m transfer fees + 100m wages) for a year of messi? Very very doubtful
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How snide does that look!?
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I've got my doubts.
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fake
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I found this leaked transfer agreement between Real & Arsenal for Ozil. Given all the details and how it looks like a formal contract, I would assume that the offer that City sent to Barcelona is not the official offer.
However, I could imagine that what we're possibly seeing is an inquiry to see if Barcelona would respond to that at all? Like a potential start to the negotiations?
It also says "Re:" in the subject line so potentially the negotiation was as follows:
- City: "what do u want for messi"
- Barca: "what are u gonna give me"
- City: "here is the details" <-- this is the document we're seeing now?
I have no idea. More than likely the whole thing is fake lol
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The letterhead looks suspiciously like an inkjet printout, instead of a properly offset printed letterhead done in large quantities for a massive organisation like Manchester City.
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Oh boy, here we go again
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Does Txiki knows this?
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Putting aside that I have doubt the authenticity of the email, this would just confirm that we offered a transfer fee during the saga right? The offer was dated before he made his announcement, and I’m assuming now formally rejected.
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I’m going to assume this is not real or did not happen.
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So fake i can't even believe it. The Re: heading is just icing on the shit cake
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Take off about £100m and it might be worth considering...
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Not koulibaly? Not interested lol. Messi news has broken my heart too much already.