Mateu Alemany (with added Alberto Benito and Pablo Rodriguez)

[sid1964]

It does seem as though this is the 1st set back since Mr. Emery arrived at our club

[Ducksworthy]

If only we have a savant, someone with such clear foresight, who could have predicted this.

[pauliewalnuts]

I reckon Alemany turned up and refused to speak Spanish (like everyone else does at the club now), opting for Catalan, and that was that, no communication possible.

[Monty]

(Catalan's nice though.)

[pauliewalnuts]

Apparently it took Emery 3 hours to get Matty Cash to understand the difference between Catalan and Matalan.

[Monty]

Dear Matty, when they told him he should learn Polish he went and bought some Windex.

[curiousorange]

Some guy on Twitter who's long claimed to be ITK said that the budget issue is that it's based on potential player sales, not new money. But the main issue is the continued presence of Lange, which Alemany didn't agree with.

[Beard82]

The only thing I would say, is over the past 3 or 4 windows we haven't really splashed as much cash as maybe I had expected.   I don't know the logic behind it etc.  Clearly the owners are minted, but what they are willing to invest etc, I don't know, Also the same with FFP.

But on the flip side it seems strange that we would try and bring in a transfer guru to oversee very little activity.    I would imagine, either we were used in a dutch auction, or they failed to reach agreement over how much control / exactly what his role would be. 

Likewise, I don't see how Unai would come if he didn't have guarantees from the owners.

[Drummond]

Apparently it took Emery 3 hours to get Matty Cash to understand the difference between Catalan and Matalan.

Matty is an upstanding member of the squad and wouldn't be looking for cheap pussies.

[Scott Nielsen]

Likewise, I don't see how Unai would come if he didn't have guarantees from the owners.

All things are relative though. I'm sure UE has some assurances, yes, but maybe Alemany really thought he would get to work with a virtually unlimited budget and then it turned out he wouldn't?

[pauliewalnuts]

I wonder if this has more legs in it.

As far as I can tell, Barcelona haven't announced he's staying - whereas they did announce he was going.

[OCD]

It might just be as simple as MA having differing opinions and before Cruyff left, MA was prepared to leave. Things seem to change when Cruyff left. I'm not going to be too hard on Alemany in case he shows up in a year's time when his contract's up.

[algy]

It might just be as simple as MA having differing opinions and before Cruyff left, MA was prepared to leave. Things seem to change when Cruyff left. I'm not going to be too hard on Alemany in case he shows up in a year's time when his contract's up.

Yep, pretty much how I see it

[Brazilian Villain]

I wonder if this has more legs in it.

As far as I can tell, Barcelona haven't announced he's staying - whereas they did announce he was going.

That's where I'm at, happy to wait and see and trust the owners to try and do what's best for the club.

In the meantime you've top "bantz" like this. https://twitter.com/Total_Villa/status/1659098319925174272

I wasn't overly impressed when I opened the notification to see that. Screw you, Elon Musk!

[Keeno]

It might just be as simple as MA having differing opinions and before Cruyff left, MA was prepared to leave. Things seem to change when Cruyff left. I'm not going to be too hard on Alemany in case he shows up in a year's time when his contract's up.

Bang on. Would've been nice, not the end of the world.