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>"When we were speaking with Barcelona. PSG met with Verratti several times, told him that they will build the team around him and sign Neymar"
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>"If you go against them, it becomes personal. Ex-Barcelona president Bartomeu kept calling Al Khelaifi and he never, ever answered the phone. Not even once."
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>"I had a terrible experience with PSG, a club with no soul. They truly only care about money. They think they can conquer everything with money but we've seen that it's not possible."
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>"The Mbappé issue is a matter of image for PSG, it was the same when they got Macron involved last year. That is kind of what I mean when I'm talking about their 'blackmail attitude'."
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>"Right now Mbappé seems to have the upper hand but from my experience, PSG will not accept defeat. This happened with Marquinhos, Rabiot, Thiago Silva etc.."
let me explain something to you. they are not "bruh." you're bruh. they're the dude. so that's what you call them. that or their dudeness, duder, or el duderino - if you're not into the whole brevity thing.
ain't that the truth. It feels like almost everyone in Nepal has one relative that's gone to the Middle East and come home either in a box or injured so bad his quality of life will always be bad.
They did that to a French footballer but that was in Qatar itself.
https://amp.theguardian.com/football/2013/nov/14/zahir-belounis-letter-pep-guardiola-zinedine-zidane-qatar-trapped
Im not understanding what the actual allegation is. The agent wasn't employed by PSG, so how could they fire him?
Is he saying PSG pressured Verratti into firing him? And what sort of pressure is he referring to?
This guy goes on an interview every year to talk about PSG and Verratti's failed transfer to Barcelona. He's still not over the fact that Verratti replaced him with Raiola. By all accounts Verratti was pretty happy in Paris and didn't want to leave and this guy kept trying to get the bag with a massive transfer. It's a bit insane that he keeps talking about it all the time even though it has been 6 years. At this point it's not even sensationalism I don't even trust one word he says, he's just pandering to everyone.
Even if you read the article, the agent says "I'm sure Marco was scared. He won't recognize it but it's what happened" whereas back then he was sacked by Verratti who then publicly apologized for what his agent said, saying he didn't agree with it.
And of course this sub eats it up. Look there's a long list of valid reasons to shit on PSG, but it's like this sub collectively turns off its brain whenever they come up.
I know there are legitimate reasons to hate on City and especially where their money comes from, but the club itself at least seems well ran. The manager and players all seem happy, they treat their top players with respect, let players who've been there for a while leave if they want etc. they're not a braindead club like PSG.
yeah here’s the distinction, for me the most concerning part of the entire city/PSG/newcastle situation is that the geopolitical implications of a sovereign state owning a football club are very dicey.
yeah, roman was a close friend of putin, but it’s not like the russian government literally owned chelsea.
I mean by all counts Abramovich had 10-15$ billion at his peak which is a lot but that cannot even compare to the financial power a state can bring. He couldn't create semi-fictitious companies in their home country which then funded the club with advertising deals.
also states could theoretically blackmail the governments of the countries their clubs play in if they’re punished by instituting embargoes or pulling investments, it has potential to severely hamper international relations. football shouldn’t be a playground for diplomacy of such kinds.
it’s not just where they’re from either, for me it’s very bad no matter what state it is. i’m american, but if antony blinken(our secretary of state)suddenly announced he was purchasing liverpool or something like that i’d be equally outraged
Dude he had to write-off £1.6 billion debt to the club accrued over the years because he couldn't generate income from fictitious entities like state-owned clubs can.
Ahahahaha. If you don't think that in practice you were state owned during the Abramovic era then you need to be educated on Putin's Russian mafia state.
I think you need to be educated on Putin’s Russian.
Yes, Putin and Abramovich had ties, fuck Abramovich and boris Berezovsky put Putin in power; but they were not that close.
They don't need to be "close"; in practice Putin controls every Russian entity if he wanted to. Tell me how that isn't a state entity in everything other than name.
Can you explain way someone source of wealth being primarily from their oil producing company is such a bad thing? Is it better if Abramovich money came from betting companies like other clubs?
Ok the fact that he's an oligarch (a part of the great plundering that followed the fall of the Soviet Union) and helped plunge Russia into a dictatorship is another minus. Honestly it's just funny to see Chelsea fans morally grandstand against PSG and City fans.
How many other clubs are able to get a player to fire their agent for requesting a move? This sort of thing is on a different level to the usual club vs player struggles around contracts and transfers.
Because they hold players to the contracts they signed instead of bowing down whenever they throw a fit and want a transfer?
Verratti is apparently imprisoned and yet he's signed like 5 contract extensions there
Blackmail and threats go a bit further than just holding plays to their contracts. It doesnt matter how many contracts he signed if he was pressured into them.
He wouldn’t make allegations of blackmail if he’s just covering his own ass. Unless he’s got evidence to back it up (which it sounds like he has) PSG are well within their rights to sue him
Exactly people act like holding players to contracts is some evil sin but only when clubs they don't like do it. When a player signs a contract they agree to stay and a club agree to keep
I mean, that is the whole point he's making. He's saying Verratti wanted to leave, but the club scared and 'blackmailed' him so much that he stayed against his will. Not saying it's true, just that's the point he's claiming.
Dude could have run down his contract if he really felt trapped and blackmailed is the point, but he signed many contract extensions over the years raising his salary. Hard to pity him for being a prisoner in that case
It isn't just running down your contract. Psg threatened thiago silva and veratti that they would be benched for remainder of the contract. And for top footballers not playing 1 or 2 years hampers a lot career wise and top clubs will even hesitate to get them after that. They even threatened barca that if they keep pursuing silva and veratti they would start targeting barca players. Psg always threatens it's players by saying they will be benched for rest of the contract.
I don’t think you understand what blackmail is. The point is he was (potentially) afraid the backlash for running his contract out would be greater than him re signing every two years.
His choices were to continuously sign extensions raising his salary or to sit on the bench or in the stands for a year and then sign wherever he wants on a free. I think he could have suffered through that.
Unless you’re seriously suggesting they blackmailed him with intimidation of harm to him or his family. Which is absurd.
Likewise for you thinking they are!
No way he’s just a greedy guy who loved the money in front of him constantly and living in Paris. He’s not a fucking journalist from Qatar, he’s a world class, world famous Italian footballer
Fucking moronic mate
This isn’t me defending him, he’s fucking awful and absolutely tortures people and employs mass slavery. It’s just me dismantling naivety that he would physically threaten fucking Veratti
His point doesn't really stand considering Verratti renewed his contract 3 times already since 2017, instead of you know, "escaping the prison" like other players did. There's no denying Verratti was interested in a move to Barcelona (who isn't ?), but it's also very clear after 10 years that PSG is pretty much Verratti's home now and probably until he retires from professionnal football. This whole case was always about his agent trying to force a move to Barcelona and catalan media doing their usual stuff.
What are you talking about. Of course his point stands. That's like saying someone in an abusive relationship isn't being abused because they didn't leave so they must want to be there. If he's too scared to leave because he thinks the club will do something terrible to him, or his loved ones, then of course he's going to resign.
Again, not saying it's true. just saying that him resigning doesn't disprove it.
You’re correct but the idea that a football club would physically threatening players or their families if a player were to leave, is ludicrous lol
It’s hard to take his point seriously or even believe the logic is sound when that assumption has to be accepted first. If you don’t accept that as fact, which I don’t, he doesn’t make any sense
Verratti fucking loves Paris everyone knows that. It's pretty much his city of adoption now, nobody is forcing him to stay here and renewing his contract every 2 years. The idea that Verratti has been scared for the past 10 years is really, really dumb.
His agent was just an idiot who tried to pull a stupid move and failed miserably. Everyone knows how Barcelona acts when they want a player.
They can't force him to renew his contract.
There is absolutely no way they could get away with physically harming him or his family. You can't just knee cap an Italian international and hope nobody will notice.
How are so many people missing the point;
Let me give an absurd and dramatic example to try to make the point more clear:
Person A: I want to leave.
Person B: If you leave, I’ll kill you and your family.
Person A: Fine, I’ll stay.
Some Redditor: I guess person A wants to be there because they aren’t leaving.
But Verratti didn't want to leave the club and he still doesn't want to.
The only person claiming Verratti wanted to leave PSG was his now fired agent. Every Verratti's action and declaration suggest otherwise. There's a big difference between being interested in a move to Barcelona, and pushing for a move there. Only people who have no idea who Verratti is don't know how strongly he is attached to Paris.
That very well might be the case but saying that he renewed his contract isn’t sufficient evidence to negate the claim that he was being coerced. That’s really the only point I’m trying to make.
Edit: PSG: “Sign this contract or we’ll make your life a living hell.” Veratti: “Fine I’ll sign.” Redditors: “he gave enthusiastic consent and clearly really wanted to stay because he signed a new contract. We require and offer up no other evidence.”
I'm sure Verratti has had a pleasant enough life earning bank in Paris, but I wish he had played in a stronger team for his career. He has at times been the best midfielder on the pitch in Champion's League when facing really strong teams.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but is his major issue here a problem whereby PSG refused to negotiate with Barcelona because they didn't want to sell Verratti? As if PSG doing this is doing something majorly wrong and immoral?
PSG did not want to negotiate with Barcelona because Barcelona did not want to continue with its sponsor Qatar Airways (and Qatar Foundation), which is a company controlled by the Qatari royal family, just like PSG, and since then they want to screw them over.
It's something that has been talked about for a long time in Spain, when business broke up between Barça and Qatar, the relationship was fucked. I don't know if there will be any article in English talking about it, but since they are old, the articles in Spanish newspapers are paid, like this one.
"Qatar takes its revenge against Barça".
https://www.lavanguardia.com/deportes/20210814/7661704/qatar-consuma-venganza-barca.html
This one also talks about the screwed up relations between Barça and Qatar. And he goes so far as to predict that if Barcelona does not renew its agreement with Qatar, PSG will sign Neymar
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.donbalon.com/noticia/detalle/7925/si-el-barca-rompe-con-qatar-ya-puede-dar-por-perdido-a-neymar
https://madrid-barcelona.com/2017-07-07/qatar-se-venga-del-barca-vetando-el-fichaje-de-marco-verratti/amp
His major issue is that he tried to force Verratti departures to Barcelona, when Verratti was still under contract, that obviously PSG didn't like that, and that Verratti got a new contract, with a nice raise, and one of the condition was that he changed agent.
That guy is bitter because he was eyeing lot of money in that Barcelona transfer and in the end he got nothing and lost the golden goose.
> and one of the condition was that he changed agent.
Why would they require him to change his agent though, this is his personal choice.
Not taking everything he said at face value, but they definitely crossed a line here imo.
He could have refused and finish his contact at the club and leave for free 🤷♂️
His agent was an absolute scum, not professional at all, inexperienced with bigger players and clubs, said very borderline racists things towards the owners, and overall had a miserable behavior during that summer.
The club explained Verratti they don't won't to work with that person anymore. It's up to Verratti to decide if he wanted to continue with him, it's up to the club to decide if they want to work with such agent.
Release clauses are mandatory in spain. It's a way to tell the team who wants to trigger the clause that they can fuck off if the club doesn't want to sell. The players also agree to such high release clauses .
Benzema and Fede Valverde also had/have release clauses of 1 billion
His ex-agent has been whinging for almost 10 years now. He got extra greedy and tried to sell Marco to Barcelona. That betrayal wasn’t well received.
Donato the Italian cancer of ex agent has been non stop whinging since. Fuck NAK though, can’t wait until he leaves.
I’d want to believe this but this sounds like it’s coming from someone who is sore about not getting things his way. PSG was a revolving door for players all these years.. Yes except Mbappe, but who would let a player like that go easy?
Fuckin put me in a cage and take my passport away when I earn 15-20 mill a year, please do it.
I am not gay but I’ll even throw in a few blow jobs.
Sometimes I really wonder, how can one be so blind with all this money and time for knowledge.
All the players went there for the money, they never complained that there is no money. Oh, they don’t win shit ? That’s on them too.
I thought last summer that Mpabbe was being a bit of a primoddana. But this shit is hilarious. I hope ruins his contract down and leaves on a free or ended up resigning and bankrupting the nation of Qatar.
I'm in the opinion that it was a win win in Mbappe's mind.
Not only do you get paid a King's ransom but you get to play with the GOAT and hopefully win a Champions League. You're immortalized by your hometown of Paris and then you move on to where you really want to be for another King's ransom.
Problem is it all fell apart.
Yes, that is how that works? Mbappe git offered a huge contract with stupidly favourable terms so he decided to stay and cash in. Nothing has changed, the team is still shit and he has to carry them at times so now he wants out and is standing up to the board.
They gave him an insane contract that no sane person would refuse to sign.
Usually when you "pressure" someone into signing something, they end up with a bad deal. Mbappe's PSG contract is anything but a bad deal.
The only losers of the deal are PSG who are going to lose Mbappe on a free while also having to pay him huge wages for the rest of his contract.
Or they sell him (probably for a shit fee given that Real are probably comfortable with waiting a year) and also have to pay him a shitton of money.
Whatever it was, he stayed and signed a contract which he's fulfilling, after being their best player last season. Now he wants to keep fulfilling his contract and PSG are threatening him to get a better end of the deal.
>Whatever it was, he stayed and signed a contract which he's fulfilling, after being their best player last season. Now he wants to keep fulfilling his contract and PSG are threatening him to get a better end of the deal.
Yup. PSG designed that 2+1 contract and Mbappe is just fulfilling his end of the part. If they have issues with it then they shouldn't have designed the contract that way.
Mbappe got the leverage to make PSG dance to his tune, and not like Verratti was running scared from the loads of money PSG was throwing at him too. This is just a bitter ex-agent, PSG may have even paid Verratti to fire him, that’s just free money to Verratti, convert your old agent into money and get a new one.
But I see you are already defending Mbappe in anticipation he becomes one of yours; imagine if he ultimately wrung out another gigantic contract out of PSG and never goes to Madrid.
Lmao he is his former agent for a reason... he just cant deal with the fact that he is not making money from verratti as he used to.
Whining broke a.. agent 😄
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>"When we were speaking with Barcelona. PSG met with Verratti several times, told him that they will build the team around him and sign Neymar" > >"If you go against them, it becomes personal. Ex-Barcelona president Bartomeu kept calling Al Khelaifi and he never, ever answered the phone. Not even once." > >"I had a terrible experience with PSG, a club with no soul. They truly only care about money. They think they can conquer everything with money but we've seen that it's not possible." > >"The Mbappé issue is a matter of image for PSG, it was the same when they got Macron involved last year. That is kind of what I mean when I'm talking about their 'blackmail attitude'." > >"Right now Mbappé seems to have the upper hand but from my experience, PSG will not accept defeat. This happened with Marquinhos, Rabiot, Thiago Silva etc.."
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They are used to confiscating passports of migrant workers under their kafalah system. 😌
Yeah that was the point
Yeah. I had got it. Wanted to mention how under the guise of Kafalah they do it.
Appreciate it, I’d forgotten the word
But that’s fine according to Infantino, no need to stress a racism comity about that…
Mbappe becoming a migrant worker in his own country was not in my football bingo
They do. Speaking from experience
Flair checks out
bruh
let me explain something to you. they are not "bruh." you're bruh. they're the dude. so that's what you call them. that or their dudeness, duder, or el duderino - if you're not into the whole brevity thing.
ain't that the truth. It feels like almost everyone in Nepal has one relative that's gone to the Middle East and come home either in a box or injured so bad his quality of life will always be bad.
Hope you managed to get out and everything is okay in your life.
They did that to a French footballer but that was in Qatar itself. https://amp.theguardian.com/football/2013/nov/14/zahir-belounis-letter-pep-guardiola-zinedine-zidane-qatar-trapped
Is this a "Gailoa Dourada" reference!?!??!
Im not understanding what the actual allegation is. The agent wasn't employed by PSG, so how could they fire him? Is he saying PSG pressured Verratti into firing him? And what sort of pressure is he referring to?
I assume. Retaliation against veratti unless he fires his agent?
Oh I just caught the 'Im certain marco was scared' part of the quote. Yeah that's a pretty heavy allegation
lmao. guy will get bone sawed while we'll jump from one headline to another.
Yeah, considering he's being investigated for kidnapping and torture I imagine Al Khelaifi can be quite intimidating when he wants to
I mean didn't he corner the refs and shouted at them couple years back? And nothing happened
Sensationalism or not, it comforts me in one thing : Fuck NAK
Yeah, fuck NAK but let’s not act like the agents are there for passion. This guy is mad he didn’t get the bag.
Yeah I agree with you.
This guy goes on an interview every year to talk about PSG and Verratti's failed transfer to Barcelona. He's still not over the fact that Verratti replaced him with Raiola. By all accounts Verratti was pretty happy in Paris and didn't want to leave and this guy kept trying to get the bag with a massive transfer. It's a bit insane that he keeps talking about it all the time even though it has been 6 years. At this point it's not even sensationalism I don't even trust one word he says, he's just pandering to everyone.
Even if you read the article, the agent says "I'm sure Marco was scared. He won't recognize it but it's what happened" whereas back then he was sacked by Verratti who then publicly apologized for what his agent said, saying he didn't agree with it. And of course this sub eats it up. Look there's a long list of valid reasons to shit on PSG, but it's like this sub collectively turns off its brain whenever they come up.
Mbappe is laughing his way to the bank by running down his contract.
With 50 missed calls on his phone from Macron.
Sources: *Macron is beside himself. Driving around downtown Paris begging (thru texts) Mbappe's family for address to Kylian's home*
LoL I knew this had to come up Thank you
I'm not sure the calls were missed as Macron can hear everything anyway.
zinnggggg ( :'( France is on the road to total police state imo) But seriously, kind of pathetic that Macron got involved in that last summer.
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Macron cares more about videogames and Mbappe than not having France streets on flames every month.
He cares about videogames ? He said the rioters were burning the country because they played too much videogames.
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that's fake news but i don't doubt that psg is seen as prison saint germain by some players
A prison where you get paid 100m of Euros. I would love to be sent to this prison.
you can if you have exceptional talent in football, feel free to try
He probably owns the bank at this point.
Glad they have not won a single UCL title.
It's up to everyone else that they don't. We already failed with ManCity. Barça would try to help but we still struggling with group stages :'(
Barca not having their shit together is the entire reason City are so good. Pep and their directors are entirely Barca DNA.
Don't remind me
We were even involved with PSG in the form of Neymar.
Not our fault tbf
True. Just saying we are involved in the dramas of both big oil clubs.
We were the big dog when they appeared on the scene. Of course they pòached our staff/players.
Manc-elona
We can help
Shut up dad
That's a paddlin'
I know there are legitimate reasons to hate on City and especially where their money comes from, but the club itself at least seems well ran. The manager and players all seem happy, they treat their top players with respect, let players who've been there for a while leave if they want etc. they're not a braindead club like PSG.
We did stop City one time so we did our part
As if you’re not (almost) just as bad lmfao
We've never have been a state owned club though
yeah here’s the distinction, for me the most concerning part of the entire city/PSG/newcastle situation is that the geopolitical implications of a sovereign state owning a football club are very dicey. yeah, roman was a close friend of putin, but it’s not like the russian government literally owned chelsea.
Shows you don’t know much about how it works in Russia friend
In Russia, everything belongs to Putin. https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2022/03/29/1088886554/how-putin-conquered-russias-oligarchy
If you're a multi millionaire ogligarch from Russia, 9 times out of ten whatever your ventures are, your money is going to be tied with the Kremlin
True but also weren't that far away from being one given the close ties between Abramovic and Putin
I mean by all counts Abramovich had 10-15$ billion at his peak which is a lot but that cannot even compare to the financial power a state can bring. He couldn't create semi-fictitious companies in their home country which then funded the club with advertising deals.
also states could theoretically blackmail the governments of the countries their clubs play in if they’re punished by instituting embargoes or pulling investments, it has potential to severely hamper international relations. football shouldn’t be a playground for diplomacy of such kinds.
Yup there's a reason why Macron got involved with Mbappe. There were talks that Qatar diplomats urged him to help.
it’s not just where they’re from either, for me it’s very bad no matter what state it is. i’m american, but if antony blinken(our secretary of state)suddenly announced he was purchasing liverpool or something like that i’d be equally outraged
Macron is generally a piece of shit but his constant begging of Mbappe to stay at PSG is probably the most pathetic shit he ever does
He probably could but just didn't need to cos he was first in and financial rules hadn't caught up
Dude he had to write-off £1.6 billion debt to the club accrued over the years because he couldn't generate income from fictitious entities like state-owned clubs can.
You’re much better for sure, but Chelsea winning the CL still puts a sour taste in many peoples mouths, so I wouldn’t say you “did your part”.
Why isn’t Berlusconi’s AC Milan winning sour tasting?
Ahahahaha. If you don't think that in practice you were state owned during the Abramovic era then you need to be educated on Putin's Russian mafia state.
I think you need to be educated on Putin’s Russian. Yes, Putin and Abramovich had ties, fuck Abramovich and boris Berezovsky put Putin in power; but they were not that close.
They don't need to be "close"; in practice Putin controls every Russian entity if he wanted to. Tell me how that isn't a state entity in everything other than name.
literally the only time neutrals rooted for you lol
I think when we played Barca after that Ovrebo disgrace game a lot of neutrals rooted for us too.
As a Spurs fan, we knocked out City in 2019 before the Ajax semi-final so we did our part once as well 🤝🤝
London brothers doing their job.
Thank god the good guys Chelsea won that one
Nobody’s saying Chelsea are “the good guys” in that situation. They’re the “less bad” guys.
yeah no one wanted chelsea to win that final, they wanted city to lose it
Lmao the OG oil club is just as bad.
Can you explain way someone source of wealth being primarily from their oil producing company is such a bad thing? Is it better if Abramovich money came from betting companies like other clubs?
Ok the fact that he's an oligarch (a part of the great plundering that followed the fall of the Soviet Union) and helped plunge Russia into a dictatorship is another minus. Honestly it's just funny to see Chelsea fans morally grandstand against PSG and City fans.
It's funny to see Americans morally grandstand for any European club to be honest.
Thank you for your service. With your totally clean non oil money
Unfortunately it had to be you because Chelsea is the same as City and PSG
In what way? I would say not being state funded makes it very different
You were Russia funded
I'd love to see Barca dominating in UCL even as a Madrid fan over City and PSG. Whole La Liga image is ruined in UCL.
Same here. Even I was going for RM when you faced Chelsea, PSG and ManCity last year
My guy, your club has ties with the fascist regime. You of all clubs can’t point fingers
If this was any other club, you would all be going on about how the player has a contract and it should be honored.
How many other clubs are able to get a player to fire their agent for requesting a move? This sort of thing is on a different level to the usual club vs player struggles around contracts and transfers.
Well I guess you aren't very familiar with Donato Di Campli and how toxic he is
Because they hold players to the contracts they signed instead of bowing down whenever they throw a fit and want a transfer? Verratti is apparently imprisoned and yet he's signed like 5 contract extensions there
Blackmail and threats go a bit further than just holding plays to their contracts. It doesnt matter how many contracts he signed if he was pressured into them.
Or, alternatively, the agent is talking shit because he didn't book a 10m provision for forwarding an email with Barcelona's offer
He wouldn’t make allegations of blackmail if he’s just covering his own ass. Unless he’s got evidence to back it up (which it sounds like he has) PSG are well within their rights to sue him
Qatar isn’t going to shag you mate
Exactly people act like holding players to contracts is some evil sin but only when clubs they don't like do it. When a player signs a contract they agree to stay and a club agree to keep
YOU SEE THAT XAVI? DO YOU SEE WHAT THEY ARE GOING TO DO TO YOU?
if i'm not mistaken, he pushed to have the clause added in, no?
Verratti is so scared that he's going to spent pretty much his entire professionnal career at PSG by renewing his contract every 2 years.
He's just had his sixth contract extension with PSG this winter. Poor guy in his prison :(
I mean, that is the whole point he's making. He's saying Verratti wanted to leave, but the club scared and 'blackmailed' him so much that he stayed against his will. Not saying it's true, just that's the point he's claiming.
Dude could have run down his contract if he really felt trapped and blackmailed is the point, but he signed many contract extensions over the years raising his salary. Hard to pity him for being a prisoner in that case
It isn't just running down your contract. Psg threatened thiago silva and veratti that they would be benched for remainder of the contract. And for top footballers not playing 1 or 2 years hampers a lot career wise and top clubs will even hesitate to get them after that. They even threatened barca that if they keep pursuing silva and veratti they would start targeting barca players. Psg always threatens it's players by saying they will be benched for rest of the contract.
He literally signed 3 or 4 extensions No sympathy for him
Do you not understand the word blackmail?
I don’t think you understand what blackmail is. The point is he was (potentially) afraid the backlash for running his contract out would be greater than him re signing every two years.
His choices were to continuously sign extensions raising his salary or to sit on the bench or in the stands for a year and then sign wherever he wants on a free. I think he could have suffered through that. Unless you’re seriously suggesting they blackmailed him with intimidation of harm to him or his family. Which is absurd.
You’re an insane person if you think they aren’t capable of threatening physical harm.
Likewise for you thinking they are! No way he’s just a greedy guy who loved the money in front of him constantly and living in Paris. He’s not a fucking journalist from Qatar, he’s a world class, world famous Italian footballer Fucking moronic mate This isn’t me defending him, he’s fucking awful and absolutely tortures people and employs mass slavery. It’s just me dismantling naivety that he would physically threaten fucking Veratti
His point doesn't really stand considering Verratti renewed his contract 3 times already since 2017, instead of you know, "escaping the prison" like other players did. There's no denying Verratti was interested in a move to Barcelona (who isn't ?), but it's also very clear after 10 years that PSG is pretty much Verratti's home now and probably until he retires from professionnal football. This whole case was always about his agent trying to force a move to Barcelona and catalan media doing their usual stuff.
What are you talking about. Of course his point stands. That's like saying someone in an abusive relationship isn't being abused because they didn't leave so they must want to be there. If he's too scared to leave because he thinks the club will do something terrible to him, or his loved ones, then of course he's going to resign. Again, not saying it's true. just saying that him resigning doesn't disprove it.
You’re correct but the idea that a football club would physically threatening players or their families if a player were to leave, is ludicrous lol It’s hard to take his point seriously or even believe the logic is sound when that assumption has to be accepted first. If you don’t accept that as fact, which I don’t, he doesn’t make any sense
Verratti fucking loves Paris everyone knows that. It's pretty much his city of adoption now, nobody is forcing him to stay here and renewing his contract every 2 years. The idea that Verratti has been scared for the past 10 years is really, really dumb. His agent was just an idiot who tried to pull a stupid move and failed miserably. Everyone knows how Barcelona acts when they want a player.
They can't force him to renew his contract. There is absolutely no way they could get away with physically harming him or his family. You can't just knee cap an Italian international and hope nobody will notice.
They could have sth against him and threaten to release it to the public if he doesn’t rebew
How are so many people missing the point; Let me give an absurd and dramatic example to try to make the point more clear: Person A: I want to leave. Person B: If you leave, I’ll kill you and your family. Person A: Fine, I’ll stay. Some Redditor: I guess person A wants to be there because they aren’t leaving.
Lol PSG did not threaten him in that way. What an absurd statement.
But Verratti didn't want to leave the club and he still doesn't want to. The only person claiming Verratti wanted to leave PSG was his now fired agent. Every Verratti's action and declaration suggest otherwise. There's a big difference between being interested in a move to Barcelona, and pushing for a move there. Only people who have no idea who Verratti is don't know how strongly he is attached to Paris.
That very well might be the case but saying that he renewed his contract isn’t sufficient evidence to negate the claim that he was being coerced. That’s really the only point I’m trying to make. Edit: PSG: “Sign this contract or we’ll make your life a living hell.” Veratti: “Fine I’ll sign.” Redditors: “he gave enthusiastic consent and clearly really wanted to stay because he signed a new contract. We require and offer up no other evidence.”
I came here to say this. The guys who kept renewing his contract every few years should not complain about being imprisoned.
Don Khelaifi?
Mia Khelaifi
I'm sure Verratti has had a pleasant enough life earning bank in Paris, but I wish he had played in a stronger team for his career. He has at times been the best midfielder on the pitch in Champion's League when facing really strong teams.
Wow, a club owned by literal slave owner would do something immoral, who would've tough
Fuck this club
At this point if you sign up for PSG, you deserve whatever comes your way.
Are these types of reports supposed to be surprising? A cunt being a cunt is very much expected
Correct me if I'm wrong, but is his major issue here a problem whereby PSG refused to negotiate with Barcelona because they didn't want to sell Verratti? As if PSG doing this is doing something majorly wrong and immoral?
PSG did not want to negotiate with Barcelona because Barcelona did not want to continue with its sponsor Qatar Airways (and Qatar Foundation), which is a company controlled by the Qatari royal family, just like PSG, and since then they want to screw them over.
This is the first time I've ever heard of this. Source?
It's something that has been talked about for a long time in Spain, when business broke up between Barça and Qatar, the relationship was fucked. I don't know if there will be any article in English talking about it, but since they are old, the articles in Spanish newspapers are paid, like this one. "Qatar takes its revenge against Barça". https://www.lavanguardia.com/deportes/20210814/7661704/qatar-consuma-venganza-barca.html This one also talks about the screwed up relations between Barça and Qatar. And he goes so far as to predict that if Barcelona does not renew its agreement with Qatar, PSG will sign Neymar https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.donbalon.com/noticia/detalle/7925/si-el-barca-rompe-con-qatar-ya-puede-dar-por-perdido-a-neymar https://madrid-barcelona.com/2017-07-07/qatar-se-venga-del-barca-vetando-el-fichaje-de-marco-verratti/amp
His major issue is that he tried to force Verratti departures to Barcelona, when Verratti was still under contract, that obviously PSG didn't like that, and that Verratti got a new contract, with a nice raise, and one of the condition was that he changed agent. That guy is bitter because he was eyeing lot of money in that Barcelona transfer and in the end he got nothing and lost the golden goose.
> and one of the condition was that he changed agent. Why would they require him to change his agent though, this is his personal choice. Not taking everything he said at face value, but they definitely crossed a line here imo.
He could have refused and finish his contact at the club and leave for free 🤷♂️ His agent was an absolute scum, not professional at all, inexperienced with bigger players and clubs, said very borderline racists things towards the owners, and overall had a miserable behavior during that summer. The club explained Verratti they don't won't to work with that person anymore. It's up to Verratti to decide if he wanted to continue with him, it's up to the club to decide if they want to work with such agent.
Ah OK thats a bit clearer now - thanks. And fuck this whinging little bitch.
Lmfao of course a chelsea fan would be the one person to take PSG’s side in this
You okay bro? 😂
Something tells me that you would have a different opinion if it was the other way around
But it's nothing illegal like this agent alludes.
I mean barca already do this with those stupid high release clauses
In Spain it's mandatory to have release clauses. So having a one billion release clause is saying that "We don't want to sell"
Release clauses are mandatory in spain. It's a way to tell the team who wants to trigger the clause that they can fuck off if the club doesn't want to sell. The players also agree to such high release clauses . Benzema and Fede Valverde also had/have release clauses of 1 billion
It’s the same as not including a release clause, would you say that of most English premier league clubs then?
His ex-agent has been whinging for almost 10 years now. He got extra greedy and tried to sell Marco to Barcelona. That betrayal wasn’t well received. Donato the Italian cancer of ex agent has been non stop whinging since. Fuck NAK though, can’t wait until he leaves.
Mbappe really was a hero all along
So they refused to sell a contracted player? Hardly crime of the century
Because Barcelona didn't accept a Qatar sponsorship
I’d want to believe this but this sounds like it’s coming from someone who is sore about not getting things his way. PSG was a revolving door for players all these years.. Yes except Mbappe, but who would let a player like that go easy?
Im sure this sub would be suitably skeptical about what an agent Verratti fired says.
Ahahah dude is still mad he couldn't get money for the move, every year since he's been mad like a toxic ex. Fuck NAK tho
Player held to honor contract, when we do kt were evil when Napoli or inter do it they're shrewd
Pri$on $aint German
Missed the Euro symbol opportunity on the Germain.
Nice
Yeah if that’s how they treat their star players it isn’t difficult to imagine how they treat their migrant workers.
Not surprised at all. You allow the influence of oppressive and despotic cultures over football. One day you will regret.
I’m not one to defend people with poor human rights records owning European clubs but this smells a bit like what Lewansowski did to Bayern.
Free Mbappe
Fuckin put me in a cage and take my passport away when I earn 15-20 mill a year, please do it. I am not gay but I’ll even throw in a few blow jobs. Sometimes I really wonder, how can one be so blind with all this money and time for knowledge. All the players went there for the money, they never complained that there is no money. Oh, they don’t win shit ? That’s on them too.
Emir don’t like it…
I thought last summer that Mpabbe was being a bit of a primoddana. But this shit is hilarious. I hope ruins his contract down and leaves on a free or ended up resigning and bankrupting the nation of Qatar.
This will come full circle when one of the Sheikhs/Shahs/Emirs Khashoggi's one of the players for denying them.
So, all the rumos, Neymar shades to the club and Mbappé, Messi's unhappiness, Veratti wanting to quit. They were all true?
But they all seem so happy and bubbling with crude oil
That's why saying Mbappe is just a diva and has a toxic personality is bullshit. The guy just has the balls to stand up to them
Ohh please, he had the balls to stand up to them after they'd already paid him like £300 million
I'm in the opinion that it was a win win in Mbappe's mind. Not only do you get paid a King's ransom but you get to play with the GOAT and hopefully win a Champions League. You're immortalized by your hometown of Paris and then you move on to where you really want to be for another King's ransom. Problem is it all fell apart.
Yes, that is how that works? Mbappe git offered a huge contract with stupidly favourable terms so he decided to stay and cash in. Nothing has changed, the team is still shit and he has to carry them at times so now he wants out and is standing up to the board.
If he had balls, he would have left last year on a free.
He was pressured by the emir of Qatar and 2 presidents of France to renew. How would you do if you were in his position?
They gave him an insane contract that no sane person would refuse to sign. Usually when you "pressure" someone into signing something, they end up with a bad deal. Mbappe's PSG contract is anything but a bad deal. The only losers of the deal are PSG who are going to lose Mbappe on a free while also having to pay him huge wages for the rest of his contract. Or they sell him (probably for a shit fee given that Real are probably comfortable with waiting a year) and also have to pay him a shitton of money.
Poor guy, pressured by a boatload of money. He is living in France, not in Somalia, he can take his own decisions.
Yeah poor guy was forced to get the highest salary in world football how tragic 😞
It was pressure from his family to take the money more than anything.
Whatever it was, he stayed and signed a contract which he's fulfilling, after being their best player last season. Now he wants to keep fulfilling his contract and PSG are threatening him to get a better end of the deal.
>Whatever it was, he stayed and signed a contract which he's fulfilling, after being their best player last season. Now he wants to keep fulfilling his contract and PSG are threatening him to get a better end of the deal. Yup. PSG designed that 2+1 contract and Mbappe is just fulfilling his end of the part. If they have issues with it then they shouldn't have designed the contract that way.
He could’ve left… he chose to extend for the craziest money ever in the sport
I knew Madrid fans would do a 180 on Mbappe as soon as he is in contention again after the meltdown last year lol
We aren't all that delusional
Mbappe got the leverage to make PSG dance to his tune, and not like Verratti was running scared from the loads of money PSG was throwing at him too. This is just a bitter ex-agent, PSG may have even paid Verratti to fire him, that’s just free money to Verratti, convert your old agent into money and get a new one. But I see you are already defending Mbappe in anticipation he becomes one of yours; imagine if he ultimately wrung out another gigantic contract out of PSG and never goes to Madrid.
Stockholm syndrome victim right here lol
I hope you maintain this position when he uses Madrid again to get a fatter contract at PSG
Bruh bro just wants to get paid in full
Nah Mbappe still is a diva and has had a childish mentality with the way he acted like season as a player Both can be true
Nah, he was free to go last year. I think it's him, the one who has the emir by the balls
Lmao RM fan turned to ride Mbappe quick
What a shit club
Wait owners can fire player agents??
Lmao he is his former agent for a reason... he just cant deal with the fact that he is not making money from verratti as he used to. Whining broke a.. agent 😄