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Montez said:
He's not wrong. It's a farce.

Next move is to have the fans and media hound players out in the hopes they take significantly lower deals else where. Or they just tank the season and get them on reduced deals.

The way it played out, everyone gets what they want without looking too bad.
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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.

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nyknick said:
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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 :unimpressed:

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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.

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. :mindblown:
 
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concise said:
Investigation reveals how football can be used to launder money
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It's all good if they bring in signings.

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“Taking back control” is not something most football clubs have had on their to-do list in recent years, at least not outside of possession statistics. The domestic game has thrived on the back of European immigration. A cosmopolitan system where German managers work with Portuguese fitness coaches to develop Spanish talent on English pitches has been central to the growth of the domestic game. Now Brexit is about to change all that.

From 1 January English football will change. European citizens will need a visa to work in the country. The criteria determining who qualifies have been the subject of lengthy negotiations between the Football Association, Premier League and EFL. They were finally agreed at the beginning of December, which means clubs have had just a month to get to know the new rules and fully implement them. Which is more than many industries can say.
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Football and Brexit: a guide to the new rules and their impact on clubs

Eze and Michael Olise about to go for 150M. Saka for 200M
 
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