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Steve Hodge
WTF?! Is that actually the same guy...?!
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Paulinho...
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WTF?! Is that actually the same guy...?!
glorygloryeze
Tom Huddlestone
Can some one please post the clip of his on pitch Barca presentation, where he tries to do some keepy uppys but fails miserablypoor guy
glorygloryeze
Tom Huddlestone
Interesting article from here:
https://grup14.com/article/paulinho-to-barcelona-is-possibly-motivated-by-third-party-interests
PAULINHO TO BARCELONA IS POSSIBLY MOTIVATED BY THIRD PARTY INTERESTS
There might be more behind the signing that left Barcelona fans baffled
With Paulinho’s transfer, confusion has gripped the Barcelona fanbase. In sporting terms, the transfer is a big question mark. After Neymar’s transfer to PSG, Barcelona are in dire need of a winger and a midfielder who can conduct the game. Nowhere was the need of a box to box defensive midfielder, especially a 29 year old who was offloaded by Tottenham Hotspur to Chinese club Guangzhou Evergrande. He was also previously offloaded by Polish club ŁKS Łódź for performing miserably, similar reason as that of Spurs. His only good spell dates to almost five years ago, with the Brazilian club Corinthians.
Here comes a stirring suspicion that quite possibly wasn't motivated by sporting reasons. FC Barcelona’s President Josep Maria Bartomeu is also the CEO and partner of ADELTE Group, which designs, builds and delivers innovative engineering solutions and advanced global services to enhance Airports, Seaports and Road Transport operations worldwide with an annual turnover of 24 million USD. If recent company strategies and business news are to be believed, it is strongly looking at expanding in the Asian market, especially China. Currently the group has projects in Taipei, Keelung and Hong Kong. Taipei and Keelung are part of the Republic of China (ROC/Taiwan) and Hong Kong is an autonomous territory of the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
As such, Bartomeu’s company has currently no major operations in mainland China, the world’s largest trading nation. However, that is soon to change with the group’s possible involvement in the Ocean Flower Island, a massive artificial archipelago in the South China Sea targeted at luxury customers. The project is under construction and is being constructed by the Evergrande Group, with investments of 24 billion dollars and looking at completion in 2020. Florentino Perez’s company ACS Group, a considerably bigger company with net revenues of 34 billion dollars (2016), were also in public bidding for the same project, but are set to lose it out to ADELTE. Bartomeu reportedly has interest in a shipping company that specializes in passenger transit between Europe and Asia, targeting the Guangzhou port, Mainland China’s second biggest port after Shanghai and world’s eighth busiest.
The Evergrande Group, which owns Guangzhou Evergrande had earlier refused to sell Paulinho to FC Barcelona. Despite the data, it is speculative to state that Bartomeu will be gaining favours with Evergrande Group snatching a player they were formerly unwilling to sell during the Chinese football season.
Now a 29 year old player who was bought for 16 million USD by Guangzhou 2 years ago has been sold to Barcelona at 47 million USD. Questions are bound to rise.
https://grup14.com/article/paulinho-to-barcelona-is-possibly-motivated-by-third-party-interests
PAULINHO TO BARCELONA IS POSSIBLY MOTIVATED BY THIRD PARTY INTERESTS
There might be more behind the signing that left Barcelona fans baffled
With Paulinho’s transfer, confusion has gripped the Barcelona fanbase. In sporting terms, the transfer is a big question mark. After Neymar’s transfer to PSG, Barcelona are in dire need of a winger and a midfielder who can conduct the game. Nowhere was the need of a box to box defensive midfielder, especially a 29 year old who was offloaded by Tottenham Hotspur to Chinese club Guangzhou Evergrande. He was also previously offloaded by Polish club ŁKS Łódź for performing miserably, similar reason as that of Spurs. His only good spell dates to almost five years ago, with the Brazilian club Corinthians.
Here comes a stirring suspicion that quite possibly wasn't motivated by sporting reasons. FC Barcelona’s President Josep Maria Bartomeu is also the CEO and partner of ADELTE Group, which designs, builds and delivers innovative engineering solutions and advanced global services to enhance Airports, Seaports and Road Transport operations worldwide with an annual turnover of 24 million USD. If recent company strategies and business news are to be believed, it is strongly looking at expanding in the Asian market, especially China. Currently the group has projects in Taipei, Keelung and Hong Kong. Taipei and Keelung are part of the Republic of China (ROC/Taiwan) and Hong Kong is an autonomous territory of the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
As such, Bartomeu’s company has currently no major operations in mainland China, the world’s largest trading nation. However, that is soon to change with the group’s possible involvement in the Ocean Flower Island, a massive artificial archipelago in the South China Sea targeted at luxury customers. The project is under construction and is being constructed by the Evergrande Group, with investments of 24 billion dollars and looking at completion in 2020. Florentino Perez’s company ACS Group, a considerably bigger company with net revenues of 34 billion dollars (2016), were also in public bidding for the same project, but are set to lose it out to ADELTE. Bartomeu reportedly has interest in a shipping company that specializes in passenger transit between Europe and Asia, targeting the Guangzhou port, Mainland China’s second biggest port after Shanghai and world’s eighth busiest.
The Evergrande Group, which owns Guangzhou Evergrande had earlier refused to sell Paulinho to FC Barcelona. Despite the data, it is speculative to state that Bartomeu will be gaining favours with Evergrande Group snatching a player they were formerly unwilling to sell during the Chinese football season.
Now a 29 year old player who was bought for 16 million USD by Guangzhou 2 years ago has been sold to Barcelona at 47 million USD. Questions are bound to rise.
glorygloryeze
Tom Huddlestone
Barcelona threaten legal action over allegations regarding £36million Paulinho signing from Guangzhou Evergrande
A Barcelona statement has denied president Josep Maria Bartomeu stands to profit personally from the deal
Barcelona have threatened legal actions over media allegations regarding the club’s signing of Paulinho.
The Brazil international, 29, will complete a £36million move to Camp Nou on Thursday, when he will undergo a medical and pen a four-year deal.
The move, bringing the ex-Tottenham midfielder back to Europe after two years with Guangzhou Evergrande, has been questioned widely.
Some supporters have called for president Josep Maria Bartomeu to resign after a turbulent summer, and his signing off on a deal which will the be club’s fourth most expensive signing in history.
Other reports have claimed that Bartomeu, who is also CEO of the company, ADELTE Group, is due to benefit personally from the arrival of Paulinho due to his business interests elsewhere.
It has been claimed that ADELTE are looking to expand into China and are soon set to bid on projects which involve the Evergrande group - who also own Paulinho’s soon-to-be former club.
A statement released by Barcelona has emphatically denied such claims, with Barca threatening legal action.
The statement read: "This morning FC Barcelona have requested a retraction [from] the authors of the article, as well as the media outlet that published the story, in which the president of the club, Josep Maria Bartomeu, is accused of having signed the player Paulinho Bezerra as part of a deal which favoured the interests of his company.
"Given the false nature of this news story and the fact that it implies an illegal activity has taken place, if a retraction is not forthcoming both the club and the president as an individual will take the corresponding legal steps.
"These steps will include a specific request for damages incurred with regards to the image of the club.”
The statement added: "FC Barcelona will not tolerate false information to be published which may damage the club or those who form part of said club and it calls for professional responsibility from those who have made use of the story without corroborating the information published.”
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/barcelona-bartomeu-legal-action-paulinho-10999544
Uh-oh...have i bleeped up??
A Barcelona statement has denied president Josep Maria Bartomeu stands to profit personally from the deal
Barcelona have threatened legal actions over media allegations regarding the club’s signing of Paulinho.
The Brazil international, 29, will complete a £36million move to Camp Nou on Thursday, when he will undergo a medical and pen a four-year deal.
The move, bringing the ex-Tottenham midfielder back to Europe after two years with Guangzhou Evergrande, has been questioned widely.
Some supporters have called for president Josep Maria Bartomeu to resign after a turbulent summer, and his signing off on a deal which will the be club’s fourth most expensive signing in history.
Other reports have claimed that Bartomeu, who is also CEO of the company, ADELTE Group, is due to benefit personally from the arrival of Paulinho due to his business interests elsewhere.
It has been claimed that ADELTE are looking to expand into China and are soon set to bid on projects which involve the Evergrande group - who also own Paulinho’s soon-to-be former club.
A statement released by Barcelona has emphatically denied such claims, with Barca threatening legal action.
The statement read: "This morning FC Barcelona have requested a retraction [from] the authors of the article, as well as the media outlet that published the story, in which the president of the club, Josep Maria Bartomeu, is accused of having signed the player Paulinho Bezerra as part of a deal which favoured the interests of his company.
"Given the false nature of this news story and the fact that it implies an illegal activity has taken place, if a retraction is not forthcoming both the club and the president as an individual will take the corresponding legal steps.
"These steps will include a specific request for damages incurred with regards to the image of the club.”
The statement added: "FC Barcelona will not tolerate false information to be published which may damage the club or those who form part of said club and it calls for professional responsibility from those who have made use of the story without corroborating the information published.”
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/barcelona-bartomeu-legal-action-paulinho-10999544
Uh-oh...have i bleeped up??
DeleHarry
Jose Dominguez
thats the one...thank you
dellagriffin
Ben Alnwick
metalgear
Luka Modric
Spur of the moment
Frederic Kanoute
Seem to remember he started well enough ...
Scored three times in his first ten PL games.
metalgear
Luka Modric
yeah then suddenly went stale... kinda like palacios (but palacios had a valid reason).
Rock Strongo
dodgy Dave Goosegog
Look at that last still frame. That's not Paulinho, it's some Chinese bloke! I mean, that facial hair is so Chinese it's ridicurous!
Which leads me to this
Kandi1977
Garth Crooks
He did well until that clam Charlie Adam did him. After he got back from that injury, he was more cautious and got stick from fans for not jumping into ridiculous tackles.
Kandi1977
Garth Crooks
Well, yeah. Add to that he got labeled by the media as the new lampard, which made people expected him to score almost every game. He did ok. People just had to high expectations of him imo.
Robspur12
Nick Barmby
You could see he was a technically gifted player, remember his goal against Cardiff in his second game? His problem, imho, was he was mentally weak, afraid to get hurt; remember him and ade letting the ball pass between them when they were supposed to be the wall at a free-kick or him being easily dispossessed in a dangerous position against poocastle because he wouldn't stick his foot in. He just couldn't cope with the physical demands of the PL. However, it looks like DL may have under valued him.
