01 Sep 2015 21:55:38
Ed002
I assume you wouldn't want to talk about this but can you please explain what happened in the pedro fiasco.
{Ed002's Note - Last summer Barcelona would have listened to significant offers for Pedro but nobody would bite. Manchester City, Arsenal and Manchester United are known to have enquired with his agent earlier in 2014. PSG spoke with Barcelona about the player in the summer of 2013 and in January 2014. This summer he was always going to move. Arsenal's interest remained as did that of Inter, but neither were intersted at the asking price. An unsolicited approach was made to Manchester United to see if they were interested as well, but initially they are not. With Salah leaving this summer it was Chelsea who pushed for a deal once the elections were over. Barcelona did look to using him as part of a convoluted part exchange with Kovacic but no deal could be struck with Inter. Manchester United came in with an offer that was less than that of Chelsea - both of which were a long way short of the asking pice. Chelsea, aware of Manchester United interest, sent Marina Granovskaia to complete the deal with the authority to act as she thought best. And that was it. The package offered to Barcelona was accepted. The package offered to the player required little or no negotiation.}
01 Sep 2015 22:05:32
Thanks a lot ed.
01 Sep 2015 23:00:42
Seems a lot less of a 'fiasco' when you put it like that, shock horror the press make united look stupid again.
03 Sep 2015 07:33:32
so nothing to do with a 60 second phone call from the 'ordinary one' as he claimed
{Ed002's Note - Pedro had permission t o speak with Chelsea and both the coach and one of the players spoke with him, as did an ex-Barcelona player who is long retired.}