Essential The Official Football (Soccer) Thread - The Slotification of Liverpool is nearly complete
Ukbrotha
Superstar
Have Barca even been able to register this dude?
blues_funk_reggae
Veteran
Barça really took a financial black eye with that Coutinho signing.
African_brehda
Superstar
Have Barca even been able to register this dude?
nikka took an injection to his knee, only to end up fukking up his calf
Have Barca even been able to register this dude?
he probably got injured playing FIFA with his ultimate team
Roberto Firmino
#GoonLife
mastermind
Rest In Power Kobe
Yo, look at how high Shane McMahon's pants are.
He is wrong though.
This madridista dude has running the numbers for weeks and been telling people it was impossible for Messi to renew.
And here he explains Liga rules regarding wages
The truth is that even if Messi was playing this season for free, the wage bill would still be at 95%. It's not that Messi didnt cut his salary enough, it's that there are too many big salaries and not enough revenue. And Barca wage bill has been an issue way before Covid.
It's a dog eat dog world, competitors have no reason to offload Barca's dead weight considering they are absolute beggars right now with 0 leverage....
If they really wanted to keep Messi they would've tried harder to get some of these contracts off their books. Instead of demanding 20m for Coutinho how about loaning him out and covering a part of his wages, same goes for Pjanic and others. And also God forbid they sell some of their good players like other teams always have to
...
And Barça also missed plenty of opportunities to clear the mess :
- they could have not buy Aguero or Depay and them to pile up even more on the wage bill but they did anyway
- they could have sold Grizzi to Atleti weeks ago but they didnt
- most importantly, they could have sold Messi to City last year and literally solve the issue (a likely 100M+ transfer fee and Messi wages off the books) but they didnt.
