Quote (zarkadon @ May 2 2017 09:04pm)
I can confirm from my Mallorca sources as well as from people who personally know Marco and I honestly trust they aren't bullshitting me (he went to the same school as my little brother, who is just a year younger) that a more accurate version would be:
Marco never had any intention of signing for Barcelona. When he was contacted he obviously didn't shut the door on them, but he told them he had no intention of negotiating halfway through the season because he wanted to focus on helping Mallorca promote. When Madrid contacted him, he agreed because it was the dream of his life and he was afraid that Madrid might not contact him again in june (not saying it was his dream because I'm a Madrid fan, you can literally google pics of 5 year old Marco wearing a Madrid kit).
His release clause was 4.5M, and Madrid gave Mallorca two options, either they signed Marco for the release clause and had him finish the season in RM Castilla (which were also playing in Segunda at the time), or Mallorca accpeted 3.9M€ and were allowed to keep Marco on loan until june. Mallorca ccpeted the latter option.
Yeah his first choice was clearly Real, but Barca pulled out of getting him due to the payment then talked their usual nonsense
https://twitter.com/tudirasrac1/status/773626923796799488, he could have gone to either club, he had the offers
http://www.marca.com/en/football/real-madrid/2016/08/30/57c56b9c46163faa3e8b4640.htmlThey had already agreed the 4.5m deal to be payed in instalments and he was pretty much on his way, but Antoni Rossich then pulled the deal when Mallorca wanted the full payment up front
Just another terrible decision in the transfer market to add to their list
Quote (AgnarioN @ May 2 2017 07:56pm)
No it wasn't, as usual you either didn't watch the game and took the wrong picture from some random forum of cry babies, or you don't understand the passive offside phase rule
http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/afdeveloping/refereeing/5.%20law%2011_554.pdf
This post was edited by Marieusz on May 2 2017 05:29pm