Gabriel 'Gabigol' Barbosa

[satubito]

Brazilian Report Claims Unnamed London Based Club Make Offer For Inter Striker Gabigol.

According to a report from Yahoo! Esportes, a London based club have made an offer to sign Inter striker Gabriel ‘Gabigol’ Barbosa.

The club, who are not Crystal Palace, went directly to the 23-year-old striker, who appears almost certain to depart Inter during the course of the January transfer window, and have also made contact with Inter as well.

The salary on offer from the unnamed club is believed to be higher than what Flamengo have proposed to the former Santos player, who spent all of 2019 on loan with them.

The report goes on to explain that Gabigol is currently on holiday in the Brazilian region of Bahia and his future will be decided by January 10.

One thing for sure is that Gabigol’s future will not be with Inter and he is not expected to report back to the Nerazzurri even after his holiday is over despite still being under contract until 2022.

Whilst out on loan at Flamengo, he made 58 appearances across all competitions in which he scored 43 goals and tallied 13 assists.

 

[Black Knight]

The club, who are not Crystal Palace,

I love that they felt the need to exclude that single club.

 

[K.I.]

And Gabriel Barbosa DOES NOT WANT TO go to such a club.

He belongs to Inter and plays for the champions of South America which he helped crown. There's no reason he'd accept to play for a shitty team when he's already in the top 10-20 level in his mind.

I recall Tevez and Mascherano going to West ham, he should def go to a club even if they are in the lower spots in the league and if he performs well and gets more exposure he might get a better offer elsewhere, aside from a Copa America or a World cup performance his stock wont get much higher than now.

 

[brehme1989]

I recall Tevez and Mascherano going to West ham, he should def go to a club even if they are in the lower spots in the league and if he performs well and gets more exposure he might get a better offer elsewhere, aside from a Copa America or a World cup performance his stock wont get much higher than now.

Their situation was way different.

They also went to Corinthians in Brazil first, which was an unprecedented move.

Their rights were owned by a company that shipped them wherever it pleased. They had relinquished control over their rights for a number of years and I think they were free to choose on their own once they had already moved to Manchester and Liverpool respectively.

Gabriel Barbosa has a choice. And he's cocky as fuck. I don't see him prefering to leave Inter's bench or Flamengo for some fringe PL club that will simply overpay him.

 

[.h.]

It's worth pointing out the Tevez/Mascherano guys, I believe their rights were owned by no less than Kia.

 

[Wobblz]

It was Kia behind all of this indeed.

 

[.h.]

and if I recall correctly, it was partially his involvement in this that ended up in the Europol (?) arrest warrant for him?

 

[K.I.]

I am talking in general that they went there, that hey had no control whatsoever is a different story but they did well enough to get moves to bigger clubs that was my point. Thy could have failed and went back to Argentina.

 

[Bluenine]

Gabigol has just had the best season/year of his life, by a great distance. He scored 43 goals and 13 assists in all competitions in 2019, won Brazilian Serie A and Copa Libertadores while top scoring in both competitions and has been named the South American player of the year. And he is only 23. He was top scorer in Brazil Serie A last season as well. So you could say he has in a way redeemed himself.

The only reason his price is not higher than what Inter paid for him, despite his failure in Europe, is that everyone knows he has no future at Inter and that we are desperate to get rid of him. And of course, the risk of failure in Europe again would kill any resale value.

Marotta should drill some sense into this kid. Send him on a 6 month loan to a small Spanish side which will start him. He is bound to score bucketloads there, and his value will double. If Marotta cannot do it, at least introduce him to Raiola and let him work his magic.

 

[n4l]

People should really spend more time actually watching gabigol play. Think about those stats; if there was actually good substance behind that, all the big clubs would be after him. Period. Those stats are amazing. That said:

(1) His initial failure in europe with us and benefica was more to do with position imo. We both tried to play him wide, when in reality, he is a striker. Not a creative forward/SS/whatever. He is an out and out striker.

(2) When you think about his attributes, they really do not bode well as a striker in the european game, particularly with most teams playing with 1 striker. He has a good shot on him and honestly, has some decent awareness/positioning of a good striker, but he is far too physically weak, far too slow (acceleration and thinking speed), technique is not anything special.

Interestingly, he is probably best in a 2 strikers setup (like us atm). We either should take whatever we can get for him from flamengo, or try to integrate him with conte (huge risk of failure, then his value will totally tank). Waiting for a euro team or loaning him out to a lower tier spanish team is suicide imo.

We are very fortunate he scored goals and we can realize a no-loss scenario. We should take it and move on. The chance of gabigol becoming neymar is near 0%. No need fussing over him....

 

[Bluenine]

We are very fortunate he scored goals and we can realize a no-loss scenario. We should take it and move on. The chance of gabigol becoming neymar is near 0%. No need fussing over him....

I see your point, its a view I have shared for a while. My point was that now that he is in form, we should maximise his sale value. However (on 2nd thought) I do agree, selling him for 20m-ish now is better than loaning him out which is not only risky but also will impact how much we can spend this winter.

 

[K.I.]

Watching him play he looks ok, not worse than any of the other strikers who score goals out of nowhere.

 

[firmino]

The guy has already failed in Europe every chance that he got. Yet, we need to sell him to finance our January transfer session and chase the scudetto.

If flamengo are willing to offer at least 30% of a future resale, then I would accept the bare minimum to avoid a capital loss in the books.

 

[rockball]

From whatever I have seen of him, we should take Flamengo's offer. He has no fucking future in Europe.

There is a small chance that some day some random midtable EPL club owned by a stupid billionaire would bid 30m+ for him, but I'd rather not wait for lightning to strike.

 

[M.Adnan]

This player a total hack. Don't let these stats fool you.

He'll do ok in Europe. Maybe in Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Austria etc, but certainly not in a top 5 league.

 

[junior55]

Ok , lets be honest , if he can achieve such stats this season and still attract close to 0 attention from important clubs means that sport directors/scouts see smth in him that our football manager mindset cannot see.

Clubs/Sport people talk with each other all the time. If he hadn't failed previously in Europe you would see Flamengo now receiving 50M+ offers . The fact that they don't it means there are some pretty bad reports about him on the time in europe that we are not aware of. That said i would still give him a chance. He can't be worse then politano ffs in the 2nd striker position.

 

[Il Drago]

Ok , lets be honest , if he can achieve such stats this season and still attract close to 0 attention from important clubs means that sport directors/scouts see smth in him that our football manager mindset cannot see.

Clubs/Sport people talk with each other all the time. If he hadn't failed previously in Europe you would see Flamengo now receiving 50M+ offers . The fact that they don't it means there are some pretty bad reports about him on the time in europe that we are not aware of. That said i would still give him a chance. He can't be worse then politano ffs in the 2nd striker position.

I think his spell at Benfica keeps teams from top leagues bidding for him. Directors at those clubs wouldn't think twice if he had just failed at Inter as we have a terrible reputation when it comes to youngsters. But a Brazilian forward failing in Liga Nos? That's unheard-of for any decent forward. We're talking about the league where Bas Dost was a huge success.

 

[diamen]

I think his spell at Benfica keeps teams from top leagues bidding for him. Directors at those clubs wouldn't think twice if he had just failed at Inter as we have a terrible reputation when it comes to youngsters. But a Brazilian forward failing in Liga Nos? That's unheard-of for any decent forward. We're talking about the league where Bas Dost was a huge success.

Luka Jović also failed in Benfica and it didn't stop Real Madrid to splash 65 mln euro for him.

Gabigol seems to be fine striker. In last summer West Ham and Aston Villa spent a lot of money for strikers like Sebastian Haller or Wesley and I don't think Barbosa is a worse player. The real problem can be his salary...

 

[brehme1989]

The main reason why he doesn't get any interest is because he himself is not interested in moving to these shit clubs.

Maybe until the end of the month something will change that, maybe not. We'll see.

 

[Il Drago]

Luka Jović also failed in Benfica and it didn't stop Real Madrid to splash 65 mln euro for him.

Gabigol seems to be fine striker. In last summer West Ham and Aston Villa spent a lot of money for strikers like Sebastian Haller or Wesley and I don't think Barbosa is a worse player. The real problem can be his salary...

And that's why he ended up on loan to a midtable German team after his spell at Benfica and it took a great season at a top league to make Real spend so much for him. Teams from top leagues would ignore Gabigol failure at Benfica if he had the performances he has in Brazil at a top league.