Thiago Alcantara...

Frutos

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...has signed for Bayern Munich for £21.6 million.

I thought, given a combination of Oscar's Barca links and his agent being Pep Guardiola's brother that we'd be a dead cert for this one.

Garcia OUT.


(On a serious note, that is about as much of a bargain as it is possible for a £21 million player to be).

 

¡Cereal Killer!

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Bayern Munich are going to be an absolute force this season.

 

misterspatch

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We'll take him on loan....

 

mejonaNO12 aka riskit

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Thats a disgusting transfer.

Bayern have Kroos, Muller, Gotze, Thiago, Ribery, Robben, Shaquiri as attacking midfielders.

They may end up playing no strikers at some points.

 

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They did play some blinding footy in the CL last season. The speed the ball moved forwards was breathtaking to watch. I reckon OG will be a get it forward type of coach

 

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Hopefully Guardiola will look to replace the route one football of a team of hugely skilled goliaths with a bit more on the ground play. They won't be Barca, but they can be a physicalised Barca which might give them the edge over the dwarfish Catalan genii.

 

beefypigeon

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Very overrated imho

 

Tom Hark Preston Park

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Mildly disconcerting that somebody can pay £21.6 million for a player you never even heard of.

 

Ninja Elephant

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Tom Hark said:

Mildly disconcerting that somebody can pay £21.6 million for a player you never even heard of.

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People who watch the game outside England know him well. He played for BARCELONA not Bari!

 

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Hes a great talent! Stuart downing and jordan henderson were about 16 million each for liverpool so 21 mill for thiago is great business!!

 

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beefypigeon said:

Very overrated imho

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You are wrong.

 

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Thiago is a quality player from what i've seen of him, and a brilliant move bearing in mind who's ahead of him at barca.

 

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Tom Hark said:

Mildly disconcerting that somebody can pay £21.6 million for a player you never even heard of.

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I'm going to assume you haven't heard of Asier Illarramendi either, who on Friday signed for Real Madrid for £34m. Javier Pastore? Lucas Moura? James Rodriguez? All sold for much larger fees than Thiago.

 

Ninja Elephant

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We're the Stripes said:

I'm going to assume you haven't heard of Asier Illarramendi either, who on Friday signed for Real Madrid for £34m. Javier Pastore? Lucas Moura? James Rodriguez? All sold for much larger fees than Thiago.

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James Rodriguez is incredible. Monaco are taking the piss with the talent they are signing.

 

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bayern are the best team in the world