comment by Lubo - Struijk of Genius (U14008)
posted 44 seconds ago
comment by The Mur Man (U22601)
posted 30 minutes ago
When I say release I mean let them negotiate with other clubs. Maybe Griezmann and Dembele might refuse but Alba and Busquests might agree to it through their love of the club
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Think their problem is that there will only be limited interest in their biggest earners, and they need to balance that with their desire to be competitive. Combine that with the fact that everyone knows their dire financial situation, it becomes increasingly difficult for them to do deals.
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Hence the little or no fee for desirable players like Griezmann, Dembele, and co.
comment by The Mur Man (U22601)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Lubo - Struijk of Genius (U14008)
posted 44 seconds ago
comment by The Mur Man (U22601)
posted 30 minutes ago
When I say release I mean let them negotiate with other clubs. Maybe Griezmann and Dembele might refuse but Alba and Busquests might agree to it through their love of the club
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Think their problem is that there will only be limited interest in their biggest earners, and they need to balance that with their desire to be competitive. Combine that with the fact that everyone knows their dire financial situation, it becomes increasingly difficult for them to do deals.
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Hence the little or no fee for desirable players like Griezmann, Dembele, and co.
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But if there's no market for them then the fee doesn't matter. Who else is going to want to pay Dembele and his custard ankles anywhere close to 200k? Griezmann might be able to find a club, but not sure either Busquets or Alba would. Too old for most clubs to pay near to their wage demands.
comment by Lubo - Struijk of Genius (U14008)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by The Mur Man (U22601)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Lubo - Struijk of Genius (U14008)
posted 44 seconds ago
comment by The Mur Man (U22601)
posted 30 minutes ago
When I say release I mean let them negotiate with other clubs. Maybe Griezmann and Dembele might refuse but Alba and Busquests might agree to it through their love of the club
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Think their problem is that there will only be limited interest in their biggest earners, and they need to balance that with their desire to be competitive. Combine that with the fact that everyone knows their dire financial situation, it becomes increasingly difficult for them to do deals.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Hence the little or no fee for desirable players like Griezmann, Dembele, and co.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
But if there's no market for them then the fee doesn't matter. Who else is going to want to pay Dembele and his custard ankles anywhere close to 200k? Griezmann might be able to find a club, but not sure either Busquets or Alba would. Too old for most clubs to pay near to their wage demands.
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With no fee involved, someone would gamble £30-40m in wages over 4-5 years on Griezmann, Dembele, Alba, even Busquests at a lesser wage.
Middle East, MLS, PSG, some wealthy, ambitious Prem clubs.
comment by The Mur Man (U22601)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Lubo - Struijk of Genius (U14008)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by The Mur Man (U22601)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Lubo - Struijk of Genius (U14008)
posted 44 seconds ago
comment by The Mur Man (U22601)
posted 30 minutes ago
When I say release I mean let them negotiate with other clubs. Maybe Griezmann and Dembele might refuse but Alba and Busquests might agree to it through their love of the club
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Think their problem is that there will only be limited interest in their biggest earners, and they need to balance that with their desire to be competitive. Combine that with the fact that everyone knows their dire financial situation, it becomes increasingly difficult for them to do deals.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Hence the little or no fee for desirable players like Griezmann, Dembele, and co.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
But if there's no market for them then the fee doesn't matter. Who else is going to want to pay Dembele and his custard ankles anywhere close to 200k? Griezmann might be able to find a club, but not sure either Busquets or Alba would. Too old for most clubs to pay near to their wage demands.
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With no fee involved, someone would gamble £30-40m in wages over 4-5 years on Griezmann, Dembele, Alba, even Busquests at a lesser wage.
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I genuinely doubt that, especially with Dembele. Too many injuries. These aren't players who are going to move to MLS or Middle East. Dembele and Griezmann are in their 'peak' years. None of them are going to move to clubs that aren't guaranteed Europe, and doubt any guarenteed European clubs would be that interested.
Especially given the fact that most other clubs are suffering financial backlash from Covid. The situation at Barcelona is a perfect storm of years of mismanagement, and other things, some out of their control, and there is just no navigable route out of it for them.
Apparently Griezmann is getting over 800k per week. Scandalous if true and no one else would pay him half of that even on a freebie imo.
comment by Robbing Hoody - Legacy Fan (U6374)
posted 4 hours, 20 minutes ago
Even if they did perform they'd have to win everything to get the prize money to cover those wages wouldn't you???
Seems almost unbelievable mismanagement.
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Yep; and the mindsets of the managements of both Real and Barca would see the clubs literally bankrupt themselves before they’d change their approaches.
Spectacularly stupid.
Horrible entitled club. Just like Madrid. 2 horrible entitled clubs with even worse fans, especially Madrid. Hideous🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
Remember when we Griezmann teased joining us? Yeah, thank god we didn't bite that bullet
comment by Elvis: King of Cult (U7425)
posted 3 hours, 51 minutes ago
comment by One Love - Admin 3 (U1250)
posted 8 minutes ago
Heard they need to free up 180 million from their wage bill just to sign up Messi again. Like what the actual fack.
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That can't be right.
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Yeah sorry, Barcelona need to reduce their wage bill by €200 million if they want to be able to register any of their new signings this summer. That includes Messi. But singing Messi requires 52 million at a minimum.
Okay so I don't know how they can get out of this mess.
-Guys they want to offload (Griezmann, Umtiti) doesn't want to leave. They're on the hook there.
-Nobody on the other side of the negotiating table want to take on their wages either...
-Can't release them because that still cost money...
- Lastly, they need Messi there to capture the commercial revenues he brings in. If they can't do the above, they can't do this either...
"I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!" time?
Bartomeu really facked them.
comment by Lubo - Struijk of Genius (U14008)
posted 2 hours, 7 minutes ago
comment by The Mur Man (U22601)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Lubo - Struijk of Genius (U14008)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by The Mur Man (U22601)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Lubo - Struijk of Genius (U14008)
posted 44 seconds ago
comment by The Mur Man (U22601)
posted 30 minutes ago
When I say release I mean let them negotiate with other clubs. Maybe Griezmann and Dembele might refuse but Alba and Busquests might agree to it through their love of the club
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Think their problem is that there will only be limited interest in their biggest earners, and they need to balance that with their desire to be competitive. Combine that with the fact that everyone knows their dire financial situation, it becomes increasingly difficult for them to do deals.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Hence the little or no fee for desirable players like Griezmann, Dembele, and co.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
But if there's no market for them then the fee doesn't matter. Who else is going to want to pay Dembele and his custard ankles anywhere close to 200k? Griezmann might be able to find a club, but not sure either Busquets or Alba would. Too old for most clubs to pay near to their wage demands.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
With no fee involved, someone would gamble £30-40m in wages over 4-5 years on Griezmann, Dembele, Alba, even Busquests at a lesser wage.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I genuinely doubt that, especially with Dembele. Too many injuries. These aren't players who are going to move to MLS or Middle East. Dembele and Griezmann are in their 'peak' years. None of them are going to move to clubs that aren't guaranteed Europe, and doubt any guarenteed European clubs would be that interested.
Especially given the fact that most other clubs are suffering financial backlash from Covid. The situation at Barcelona is a perfect storm of years of mismanagement, and other things, some out of their control, and there is just no navigable route out of it for them.
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They will move on those they need to.
Worst case they ruin the players relationship with the club/ fans by making it known to the fans that players wouldn't move on to save the club.
comment by Scott The King McTominay (U10026)
posted 14 minutes ago
Bartomeu really facked them.
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Hoping to see a leaked photo of him as a child wearing a Real top soon.
None of this Barça/Real stuff matters now that the mighty RCD Mallorca are back in the top tier.
We've even just spent a whopping €700K transfer fee on just one player.
comment by Robbing Hoody - Legacy Fan (U6374)
posted 22 minutes ago
comment by Scott The King McTominay (U10026)
posted 14 minutes ago
Bartomeu really facked them.
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Hoping to see a leaked photo of him as a child wearing a Real top soon.
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Their fans have only got themselves to blame.
comment by Lubo - Struijk of Genius (U14008)
posted 6 hours, 39 minutes ago
comment by Elvis: King of Cult (U7425)
posted 33 seconds ago
How far has Umtiti's stock fallen that they are trying to give him away? Is he that bad?
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He's been pretty awful for a couple of years.
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He has a name within a name
This had to happen in football eventually.... I guess Real Madrid are the same
La Liga should have a fit and proper person test for people running their clubs. It's worked so well in English football.
Barca threatened to sue the paper that leaked Messi's contract, and it was actually like 2- 2.5 mill a week or something crazy. Over 100 mill a year but I'm guessing that included bonuses etc
comment by One Love - Admin 3 (U1250)
posted 6 hours, 19 minutes ago
comment by Elvis: King of Cult (U7425)
posted 3 hours, 51 minutes ago
comment by One Love - Admin 3 (U1250)
posted 8 minutes ago
Heard they need to free up 180 million from their wage bill just to sign up Messi again. Like what the actual fack.
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That can't be right.
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Yeah sorry, Barcelona need to reduce their wage bill by €200 million if they want to be able to register any of their new signings this summer. That includes Messi. But singing Messi requires 52 million at a minimum.
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So nearly 4m euros a week they need to lose? That's a lot of money.
comment by FootyMcfootfoot (U21853)
posted 11 hours, 29 minutes ago
Barca threatened to sue the paper that leaked Messi's contract, and it was actually like 2- 2.5 mill a week or something crazy. Over 100 mill a year but I'm guessing that included bonuses etc
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As I understand it, whatever a player's officially published wage is (e.g. Messi @ €1m pw), you can double that as the figure quoted is AFTER Tax, especially in Spain due to the tax laws there.
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posted on 6/7/21
comment by Lubo - Struijk of Genius (U14008)
posted 44 seconds ago
comment by The Mur Man (U22601)
posted 30 minutes ago
When I say release I mean let them negotiate with other clubs. Maybe Griezmann and Dembele might refuse but Alba and Busquests might agree to it through their love of the club
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Think their problem is that there will only be limited interest in their biggest earners, and they need to balance that with their desire to be competitive. Combine that with the fact that everyone knows their dire financial situation, it becomes increasingly difficult for them to do deals.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Hence the little or no fee for desirable players like Griezmann, Dembele, and co.
posted on 6/7/21
comment by The Mur Man (U22601)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Lubo - Struijk of Genius (U14008)
posted 44 seconds ago
comment by The Mur Man (U22601)
posted 30 minutes ago
When I say release I mean let them negotiate with other clubs. Maybe Griezmann and Dembele might refuse but Alba and Busquests might agree to it through their love of the club
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Think their problem is that there will only be limited interest in their biggest earners, and they need to balance that with their desire to be competitive. Combine that with the fact that everyone knows their dire financial situation, it becomes increasingly difficult for them to do deals.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Hence the little or no fee for desirable players like Griezmann, Dembele, and co.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
But if there's no market for them then the fee doesn't matter. Who else is going to want to pay Dembele and his custard ankles anywhere close to 200k? Griezmann might be able to find a club, but not sure either Busquets or Alba would. Too old for most clubs to pay near to their wage demands.
posted on 6/7/21
comment by Lubo - Struijk of Genius (U14008)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by The Mur Man (U22601)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Lubo - Struijk of Genius (U14008)
posted 44 seconds ago
comment by The Mur Man (U22601)
posted 30 minutes ago
When I say release I mean let them negotiate with other clubs. Maybe Griezmann and Dembele might refuse but Alba and Busquests might agree to it through their love of the club
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Think their problem is that there will only be limited interest in their biggest earners, and they need to balance that with their desire to be competitive. Combine that with the fact that everyone knows their dire financial situation, it becomes increasingly difficult for them to do deals.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Hence the little or no fee for desirable players like Griezmann, Dembele, and co.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
But if there's no market for them then the fee doesn't matter. Who else is going to want to pay Dembele and his custard ankles anywhere close to 200k? Griezmann might be able to find a club, but not sure either Busquets or Alba would. Too old for most clubs to pay near to their wage demands.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
With no fee involved, someone would gamble £30-40m in wages over 4-5 years on Griezmann, Dembele, Alba, even Busquests at a lesser wage.
posted on 6/7/21
Middle East, MLS, PSG, some wealthy, ambitious Prem clubs.
posted on 6/7/21
comment by The Mur Man (U22601)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Lubo - Struijk of Genius (U14008)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by The Mur Man (U22601)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Lubo - Struijk of Genius (U14008)
posted 44 seconds ago
comment by The Mur Man (U22601)
posted 30 minutes ago
When I say release I mean let them negotiate with other clubs. Maybe Griezmann and Dembele might refuse but Alba and Busquests might agree to it through their love of the club
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Think their problem is that there will only be limited interest in their biggest earners, and they need to balance that with their desire to be competitive. Combine that with the fact that everyone knows their dire financial situation, it becomes increasingly difficult for them to do deals.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Hence the little or no fee for desirable players like Griezmann, Dembele, and co.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
But if there's no market for them then the fee doesn't matter. Who else is going to want to pay Dembele and his custard ankles anywhere close to 200k? Griezmann might be able to find a club, but not sure either Busquets or Alba would. Too old for most clubs to pay near to their wage demands.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
With no fee involved, someone would gamble £30-40m in wages over 4-5 years on Griezmann, Dembele, Alba, even Busquests at a lesser wage.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I genuinely doubt that, especially with Dembele. Too many injuries. These aren't players who are going to move to MLS or Middle East. Dembele and Griezmann are in their 'peak' years. None of them are going to move to clubs that aren't guaranteed Europe, and doubt any guarenteed European clubs would be that interested.
Especially given the fact that most other clubs are suffering financial backlash from Covid. The situation at Barcelona is a perfect storm of years of mismanagement, and other things, some out of their control, and there is just no navigable route out of it for them.
posted on 6/7/21
Apparently Griezmann is getting over 800k per week. Scandalous if true and no one else would pay him half of that even on a freebie imo.
posted on 6/7/21
comment by Robbing Hoody - Legacy Fan (U6374)
posted 4 hours, 20 minutes ago
Even if they did perform they'd have to win everything to get the prize money to cover those wages wouldn't you???
Seems almost unbelievable mismanagement.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Yep; and the mindsets of the managements of both Real and Barca would see the clubs literally bankrupt themselves before they’d change their approaches.
Spectacularly stupid.
posted on 6/7/21
Horrible entitled club. Just like Madrid. 2 horrible entitled clubs with even worse fans, especially Madrid. Hideous🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
posted on 6/7/21
Remember when we Griezmann teased joining us? Yeah, thank god we didn't bite that bullet
posted on 6/7/21
comment by Elvis: King of Cult (U7425)
posted 3 hours, 51 minutes ago
comment by One Love - Admin 3 (U1250)
posted 8 minutes ago
Heard they need to free up 180 million from their wage bill just to sign up Messi again. Like what the actual fack.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
That can't be right.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Yeah sorry, Barcelona need to reduce their wage bill by €200 million if they want to be able to register any of their new signings this summer. That includes Messi. But singing Messi requires 52 million at a minimum.
posted on 6/7/21
Okay so I don't know how they can get out of this mess.
-Guys they want to offload (Griezmann, Umtiti) doesn't want to leave. They're on the hook there.
-Nobody on the other side of the negotiating table want to take on their wages either...
-Can't release them because that still cost money...
- Lastly, they need Messi there to capture the commercial revenues he brings in. If they can't do the above, they can't do this either...
"I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!" time?
posted on 6/7/21
Bartomeu really facked them.
posted on 6/7/21
comment by Lubo - Struijk of Genius (U14008)
posted 2 hours, 7 minutes ago
comment by The Mur Man (U22601)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Lubo - Struijk of Genius (U14008)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by The Mur Man (U22601)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Lubo - Struijk of Genius (U14008)
posted 44 seconds ago
comment by The Mur Man (U22601)
posted 30 minutes ago
When I say release I mean let them negotiate with other clubs. Maybe Griezmann and Dembele might refuse but Alba and Busquests might agree to it through their love of the club
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Think their problem is that there will only be limited interest in their biggest earners, and they need to balance that with their desire to be competitive. Combine that with the fact that everyone knows their dire financial situation, it becomes increasingly difficult for them to do deals.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Hence the little or no fee for desirable players like Griezmann, Dembele, and co.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
But if there's no market for them then the fee doesn't matter. Who else is going to want to pay Dembele and his custard ankles anywhere close to 200k? Griezmann might be able to find a club, but not sure either Busquets or Alba would. Too old for most clubs to pay near to their wage demands.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
With no fee involved, someone would gamble £30-40m in wages over 4-5 years on Griezmann, Dembele, Alba, even Busquests at a lesser wage.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I genuinely doubt that, especially with Dembele. Too many injuries. These aren't players who are going to move to MLS or Middle East. Dembele and Griezmann are in their 'peak' years. None of them are going to move to clubs that aren't guaranteed Europe, and doubt any guarenteed European clubs would be that interested.
Especially given the fact that most other clubs are suffering financial backlash from Covid. The situation at Barcelona is a perfect storm of years of mismanagement, and other things, some out of their control, and there is just no navigable route out of it for them.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
They will move on those they need to.
Worst case they ruin the players relationship with the club/ fans by making it known to the fans that players wouldn't move on to save the club.
posted on 6/7/21
comment by Scott The King McTominay (U10026)
posted 14 minutes ago
Bartomeu really facked them.
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Hoping to see a leaked photo of him as a child wearing a Real top soon.
posted on 6/7/21
None of this Barça/Real stuff matters now that the mighty RCD Mallorca are back in the top tier.
We've even just spent a whopping €700K transfer fee on just one player.
posted on 6/7/21
comment by Robbing Hoody - Legacy Fan (U6374)
posted 22 minutes ago
comment by Scott The King McTominay (U10026)
posted 14 minutes ago
Bartomeu really facked them.
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Hoping to see a leaked photo of him as a child wearing a Real top soon.
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Their fans have only got themselves to blame.
posted on 6/7/21
comment by Lubo - Struijk of Genius (U14008)
posted 6 hours, 39 minutes ago
comment by Elvis: King of Cult (U7425)
posted 33 seconds ago
How far has Umtiti's stock fallen that they are trying to give him away? Is he that bad?
----------------------------------------------------------------------
He's been pretty awful for a couple of years.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
He has a name within a name
posted on 6/7/21
This had to happen in football eventually.... I guess Real Madrid are the same
posted on 6/7/21
La Liga should have a fit and proper person test for people running their clubs. It's worked so well in English football.
posted on 6/7/21
Barca threatened to sue the paper that leaked Messi's contract, and it was actually like 2- 2.5 mill a week or something crazy. Over 100 mill a year but I'm guessing that included bonuses etc
posted on 6/7/21
comment by One Love - Admin 3 (U1250)
posted 6 hours, 19 minutes ago
comment by Elvis: King of Cult (U7425)
posted 3 hours, 51 minutes ago
comment by One Love - Admin 3 (U1250)
posted 8 minutes ago
Heard they need to free up 180 million from their wage bill just to sign up Messi again. Like what the actual fack.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
That can't be right.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Yeah sorry, Barcelona need to reduce their wage bill by €200 million if they want to be able to register any of their new signings this summer. That includes Messi. But singing Messi requires 52 million at a minimum.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
So nearly 4m euros a week they need to lose? That's a lot of money.
posted on 7/7/21
comment by FootyMcfootfoot (U21853)
posted 11 hours, 29 minutes ago
Barca threatened to sue the paper that leaked Messi's contract, and it was actually like 2- 2.5 mill a week or something crazy. Over 100 mill a year but I'm guessing that included bonuses etc
----------------------------------------------------------------------
As I understand it, whatever a player's officially published wage is (e.g. Messi @ €1m pw), you can double that as the figure quoted is AFTER Tax, especially in Spain due to the tax laws there.
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