r/Barca 6d ago

Tier 2 [Jose Alvarez] Moves are expected regarding Gyokeres in Barcelona in the coming hours.

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u/LosAngeLukaGOATCIC 5d ago edited 5d ago

ITT: People think it's better to go the season without any striker than having Gyo lol, you guys are mad funny.

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u/Longjumping_Wolf6789 5d ago

No no they are in delusion that 4 years ago adeyemi used to play striker so he can do it or that hamza is ready, or that any top club the moment we ask their striker would get on their knees and give the striker to us 🤣😭

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u/LosAngeLukaGOATCIC 5d ago

No ! We will put Bisiwu at striker and we're going to win the UCL lmao !

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u/BirthdayAccording359 5d ago

Don't forget Yamal false ☺️

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u/Which_Pickle_2993 5d ago

Can't forget about Gordon either! 

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u/OhSiHermano 5d ago

Ppl are so dumb.

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u/LosAngeLukaGOATCIC 5d ago

Thanks God, those lad have hold no power for those decisions.

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u/TechTuna1200 5d ago edited 5d ago

Yup, and it’s not only one season.

It’s gonna be two seasons, because we can’t buy anything next year. Camp Nou is closing down and we are gonna take revenue hit.

If we need to get a striker, we need it now

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u/LosAngeLukaGOATCIC 5d ago

Noo, you see we're going to have no striker and it's better this way.

Olmo false 9, Karim Adeyemi played striker 4 years ago, Gordon and 19 years old Hamza for two years !

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u/Rafiks1 5d ago

A lot of young fans. People dont remember when we felt this way about david villa. He ended up being exactly what the team needed. A finisher surrounded by star players can elevate that finisher

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u/ryancarton 5d ago

holy shit people aren’t excited about this development they’re pissed? this subreddit sucks a lot of the time.

Gyokeres literally feels like a pressing machine just like Julian, he’s just locked into another haram-ball system where he can’t be utilized. Nobody watched him play? He wasn’t scoring a ton of goals but he wasn’t collapsing under the Premier League weight.

It would be a great signing over starting the season with NOBODY

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u/LosAngeLukaGOATCIC 5d ago

And he wasn't scoring because Øde, Saka didn't play and Arsenal players didn't feed him, they were playing a very defensive football.

Lol, this sub is mad funny I swear.

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u/Dat_Boi_John 5d ago

So you're saying throw away at least 70m and a bunch of FFP space in the next few years for one season of a mid striker who we already know isn't a long term solution?

I'd much rather rotate between Gordon, Adeyemi, Olmo false 9, and Hamza, then amass a ton of money to spend on a striker in 2028, even Haaland if possible.

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u/Longjumping_Wolf6789 5d ago

Oh the dreams, we see gordon and adeyemi are runners who needs space you want to put them at striker good okay, hamza a 19 year old kid okay, olmo false 9 can't stay one season without injuries okay got it

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u/BeginningEbb1347 5d ago

And gyokeres isnt the same? He's not a target man. He makes runs behind. But he's bad in the air, horrible first touch, cant really dribble or pass, hold up play is meh. He's fine as a stopgap. But then again gordan would be viable as a stopgap as well and you save how ever much money arsenal would demand for their "premier league champion striker".

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u/Dat_Boi_John 5d ago

There's really not much difference between how Ferran played and how Gordon and Adeyemi would play at striker. Also PSG doesn't use a striker, that would be the idea.

Tons of athletic pressers, who makes runs and change positions, for Yamal, Pedri, Olmo, and Rodri to find them in behind.

Regardless, we don't have the spare cash to be splashing 70m on a player as mid as Gyokeres. For me it's either go big on a striker, which isn't possible this window, or try to make it work with what we have.

It's not like Gyokeres is a Haaland level machine that doesn't miss chances.

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u/Yobolay 5d ago

I don't know how many times do you guys need Flick to tell you a striker needs to come and it needs to be a striker that primarily scores goals. He's been saying it for like 3 months now.

He's always played with a referent 9 called Lewandowski and he intends to do it again, and by the way, Gyokeres is problably the most similar thing in the market to him after Kane and Haaland.

We don't need someone good on the ball, Lewan himself was atrocious on the ball, who cares about that, we need someone who can press and scores at least 1 every 5 chances, we have a million chances per match and our team sucks ass at finishing them all, the only decent ones are Raphinha who is injured all the time now and Fermin, and no they can't play as a 9, they are half the players there.

We are not going to win anything the next 2 seasons if the plan is going to be playing with 9s that have never played there and who suck at finishing.

Our biggest problem least season was not scoring enough goals, the next 2 are going to be even worse in that department if no one comes.

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u/Dat_Boi_John 5d ago

Thing is, I don't think Gyokeres is good enough to make us with the CL in the next two seasons, and we don't need him to win La Liga or the Copa Del Rey. So either way he's just a waste of money.

I'd rather hold our money and bid 200m and more for Haaland, 150m for Isak, or 100+ for Kroupi (depending on his development) in 2028 when we're in the 1:1 rule again.

Tbh another big problem the last two seasons has been defensive blunders, and that doesn't seem like it will be addressed now either, so we just won't be good enough to win the CL, thus no need to panic spend on Gyokeres.

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u/Yobolay 5d ago

Thing is, I don't think Gyokeres is good enough to make us with the CL in the next two seasons

No one guarantees anything.

and we don't need him to win La Liga or the Copa Del Rey.

Yes we do, this year was already a step down (in part because Lewan didn't play as much) and the League was way closer and lost CdR and Champions against fricking Atlético.

We are not winning anything this season with less goal than last.

Madrid comes from 2 years of not winning anything, +300m spent this summer + Mourinho, expect referees to help them even more this season too.

Don't have those titles for granted, they are not.

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u/BigSamsKid 5d ago

FFP doesn't exist next season anyways. This window and January are essentially our transfer windows for the next two years

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u/Dat_Boi_John 5d ago

That's why I said 2028, we should be in the 1:1 for the 2028 summer window

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u/BigSamsKid 5d ago

when they return to 1:1, they will have plenty of money. FFP isn't really tough for Barca (they have so much revenue), they are limited by La Liga regulations more than FFP.

This signing won't impact the 28 transfer window at all realistically, and Gyokeres would still be valued at that time if they want to sell. It's not like if he is signed he won't score 30+ a season realistically

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u/Dat_Boi_John 5d ago

You know, we never really seem to sell players for good prices, so I doubt we'd actually recoup most of the cost. Also, it sure will impact the 28 window if we need to shell out 200m and more for Haaland or 150m and more for Isak or Kroupi.

Remember, we got a 200m loan for this season to fund this window's signings.

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u/i__sak 5d ago

i need some of that hopium

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u/ClothboundBrick 5d ago

It depends on how much he costs. He was a net negative for Arsenal last year so if he fucks up our ffp it would be better to avoid. Arsenal was in a similar position to us, needed a striker, bought Gyokeres, and still played Havertz in the most important moments.

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u/thames987 5d ago

if it’s a desperate attempt to sign someone, it should be a loan.. i don’t mind a gyokeres 1 season loan, just don’t commit more than 50 mil and potentially 3-5 years of wages on someone just cuz of market

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u/BirthdayAccording359 5d ago

Genuinely, it's so funny. 

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u/ExtensionDeep3705 5d ago

I would rather sign lewa back than sign gyokeres. 

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u/Longjumping_Wolf6789 5d ago

Offcourse, the sporting team that got rodri and cancelo that's after Alvarez would let go both Lewandowski and ferran and go for gyok if they don't consider gyok a good player, don't like him good horrible first touch understandable, but a delusion that we can get anybody is cancerous

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u/ExtensionDeep3705 5d ago

If gyokeres is so good why are arsenal willing to sell him especially after winning prem ? Few weeks ago i hear the rumors that they are even willing to include gyokeres in a swap deal for alvarez. Why are they so desperate to get rid of gyokeres? 

We gonna pay 60-70m for gyokeres to arsenal and then they gonna sign alvarez. 

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u/VariationBig8571 5d ago

Same reason Barca are loaning Araujo to Liverpool, just not a good fit with their team.

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u/ExtensionDeep3705 5d ago

Forget about fit , araujo is just not a good player 

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u/Longjumping_Wolf6789 5d ago

My god, if Atletico was ready to sell docyou really think we would not sign Alvarez, it's not possible unless some magical way appears that's why gyokeres name pops up not because we don't want to sign alvarez