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Player Paulo Dybala

Mr Pink

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Aug 25, 2010
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Think it was the BBC leading strongly with their advanced negotiations/close to signing updates off the back of the Argentinian press last night that got everyone so excited.

It really felt like it was gathering serious momentum from very credible sources.
 

THFC_SWE

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Aug 31, 2012
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It's even worse when you know that the player was open to the idea to sign for us. It feels terrible now when the deal collapsed.
 

Kingellesar

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May 2, 2005
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Such a disappointing outcome. Can't see us going back for him, got a feeling he will end up at Inter on loan or something before the end of the window in Italy, with Icardi going the other way. Sort of shady back hander deals that go on with Italian clubs, then they will end up swapping next summer.
 

0-Tibsy-0

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Aug 13, 2012
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Eugh, statements like this really piss me off. You know absolutely nothing of the subject matter, couldn't explain what an "image right" is but yet have arbitrarily decided that three weeks is the time in which to solve any problem relating to them.

I don't agree with the initial statement and am with you that most of us have no idea of thecomplexities, but once we learned about the issue in hand - should it have taken us until 1 hour before the close of the window to realise it was insurmountable, or should that decision have been made earlier so that we could focus our attention on another player?
 

Yiddo100

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Jan 16, 2019
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Yes it didn’t happen sadly and appears no real fault of our own , but shows how far we have grown that Dybala was willing to join and Levy willing to pay the bucks
 

hutchiniho

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I cannot for the life of me imagine that we’ve been negotiating this deal for three weeks but blindly ignoring the image rights elephant in the room.
Surely this issue was shop window front and centre from the beginning.
Absolutely no point agreeing fees and terms if the imagine rights were such a mess.
I can imagining agreeing everything on a house purchase, legals etc and then finding the land is owned by someone else.
Why pursue an impossible deal.
I guess we had to try
The statement would have been unbelievable tho. Disappointed but this one was above and beyond expectations
 

Matthew

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Aug 29, 2012
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seems an appropriate time to post....
 

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Mackan110

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Jan 8, 2019
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How hard can it be to work out "image rights "? Sounds like bullshit and has to be something else


Hope we get coutinho or bruno now instead because I really want eriksen gone
 

SpringHeeledJim

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The fact we were seriously in for him and he was keen to join shows exactly how far we have come. Dissapointing but we have signed x 3 quality 1st team players. With better luck on the injury front and with CE still our player (for now) - we are set for a good season.

CM was our weakest position but now has the potential to be the strongest in the league.

Maybe Dybala will be revisisted...........
 

yiddopaul

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Dec 28, 2005
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that's that then, dead. such a shame would had been a statement for sure. not sure how we could had been working on image rights for 3 weeks.
We've still made a statement. We agreed the fee, he wanted to come to us, we're going after top-level players. He would never have entertained us a few years ago.... That's my positive spin on it.
 

Stoof

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Jun 5, 2004
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I don't agree with the initial statement and am with you that most of us have no idea of thecomplexities, but once we learned about the issue in hand - should it have taken us until 1 hour before the close of the window to realise it was insurmountable, or should that decision have been made earlier so that we could focus our attention on another player?

Why have you assumed that it wasn't possible for the entire time? If it is only just hit a snag, would you rather we didn't try and do anything slightly difficult? I'm not sure he can win with some fans. And that's fine. I'm happy for your opinion. It's just always frustratingly negative and, if I'm honest, smacks of "I know better" when, sorry, you don't.
 
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