Paulinho

[Colonel_K]

Always thought he was more Indian looking myself.

He has the look of the indigenous people of the Amazon, rather than the migrated Caribbean.

 

[CJJ]

Keep reading stuff about how Neymar really wants Paulinho to join, and Paulinho is going to meet his team's chairman to ask him to accept the Barca offer.

All sorts of mental

 

[Colonel_K]

Paul done well...



aulinhobored:

 

[Lickher]

This is one of the craziest transfers ive ever witnessed

 

[Bazali]

Paul done well...



aulinhobored:

Got Sky news on and they're saying £36.4 million

 

[RocketRonny]

If anyone is looking for signs that the Barca giant is old and tired this is one. They're coming into this season weaker than the last one, Atletico could easily grab second.

 

[HyNdZee]

Keep reading stuff about how Neymar really wants Paulinho to join, and Paulinho is going to meet his team's chairman to ask him to accept the Barca offer.

All sorts of mental

Hmm... perhaps Neymar's intentions were not so pure after all... aulinhobored:

 

[ArcspacE]

Got Sky news on and they're saying £36.4 million

40m euro - 36.4m pounds

 

[Bazali]

How much did we get for him from China?

 

[ArcspacE]

Happy for him - never hated the guy. Takes some commitment to go and turn your career around in China

 

[Bazali]

I wasn't happy with him when he turned his back on a free kick and we conceded

I think Ade was the other culprit but good luck to him

And the fee?

 

[Guido 🇺🇦]

Happy for him - never hated the guy. Takes some commitment to go and turn your career around in China

Or..........it could be a very dodgy business deal. Josep Maria Bartomeu Floreta (Barca President) is a partner and CEO at ADELTE Group which is into designing, manufacturing, supplying and maintaining airports, seaports and road transport operations.

ADELTE Group is expanding into China and bidding on projects like the Ocean Flower Island being built by the Evergrande group which also happens to be the parent organisation of—you guessed it—Guangzhou.

Florentino Perez’s (Real Madrid's President) ACS Group was also bidding for the project, but with the Paulinho transfer concluded, the contract is handed over to ADELTE Group and/or associates.

Bartomeu’s is of course still awaiting trial for Tax fraud.

 

[ArcspacE]

Or..........it could be a very dodgy business deal. Josep Maria Bartomeu Floreta (Barca President) is a partner and CEO at ADELTE Group which is into designing, manufacturing, supplying and maintaining airports, seaports and road transport operations.

ADELTE Group is expanding into China and bidding on projects like the Ocean Flower Island being built by the Evergrande group which also happens to be the parent organisation of—you guessed it—Guangzhou.

Florentino Perez’s (Real Madrid's President) ACS Group was also bidding for the project, but with the Paulinho transfer concluded, the contract is handed over to ADELTE Group and/or associates.

Bartomeu’s is of course still awaiting trial for Tax fraud.

 

[Guido 🇺🇦]

Personally I couldn't give a fuck about either Barca or Paulinho but absolutely no-one is talking about how great this deal is. Scratch at the surface of a festering pit of corruption and fraud and it's not hard to find why this deal could have happened. It sure as shit isn't about the quality of his game.

 

[superstaryid]

How much did we get for him from China?

All the tea.

 

[superstaryid]

How the hell can you prove your good enough for Barcelona by flopping twice in Europe then plying your trade against peasant and pig farmers in China for two years ?

 

[Mrs Perryman]

The phrase 'more money than sense' comes to mind

 

[spursfan76]

anyone playing for brazil can't be that bad.

 

[Furball man]

Got Sky news on and they're saying £36.4 million

Oh right. Got a right bargain there then.

 

[CJJ]

Seems like we got a sell on for him, if you take Graham Robert's word as gospel