Essential The Official Football (Soccer) Thread - The Scriptures Prophesied the Messiah Plays 3-4-3

[TOAD99]

This is gonna end well

Pedri has to chill

he’s young and the future of the team.

 

[nyknick]

He should go to Atalanta.

Apparently he wants to go to Arsenal

Roma and Chelsea already have an agreement, hopefully Tammy realizes if he waits for Arsenal it might never happen and he'll spend half of the season on Chelsea bench.

 

[Low End Derrick]

This is gonna end well

Keep this up and he'll be burnt out by 22.

 

[Ukbrotha]

You are wrong. First of all, La Liga rules state that a player can reduce his salary with a max 50 % from the previous year; Messi agreed to do that.

Secondly, the club can max have 70 % of their income spent on salary. Barca stands on 95 %, as of today, without Messis salary, hence theyre having to offload players, still.

So if you do the math, they would basically have to get rid of Griezmann, umtiti, pjanic, coutinho and sergi roberto to sign Messi. Laporta tried just that and failed. Nobodys taking on their salaries, theyre too high, especially in full. For example, Pjanic is probably going back to Italy on loan but Barca will still pay probably half his salary. Every team in the world knows that they have to reduce salary by any means so there will be loans where Barca still has to pay a percentage of the salaries.

They couldve taken the cvc investment deal with La Liga but then they wouldve been forced to give up TV rights for 50 years and making a superleague impossible for them to join. So they chose not to and thats why Messi couldnt be signed.

La liga were not going to make an exception because they want to force Barca to take the cvc investment deal, so that they cant leave La Liga to form a superleague in the future.

Do you have a link about this la liga info?

 

[SwagKingKong]

Do you have a link about this la liga info?

Heres a link on the reducing of wages by a max 50 % by a player. He provided a pdf in spanish if you want to read it yourself.



Here is the info on a maximum of 70 % of income being spent on wages: "However La Liga said clubs would be obliged to use 70% of the money they receive on infrastructure improvements, such as technology. A maximum of 15% can be used on player acquisition and a further 15% to finance debts."

Source: Spain's top soccer clubs to get cash boost from $3.2 bln La Liga deal

 

[Kunty McPhuck]

This is gonna end well

If Hoeman and Enrique really care they don't have to pick him.

 

[Kunty McPhuck]

Investigation reveals how football can be used to launder money

Let me know when they do a PSG one.

 

[Sukairain]

I can't believe we're selling Romelukaku

There goes the Inter resurgence. Without our manager and our best player (and Hakimi will be a huge loss as well), everything achieved in the last two seasons has turned to shyt

 

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[Kunty McPhuck]

I can't believe we're selling Romelukaku

There goes the Inter resurgence. Without our manager and our best player, everything achieved in the last two seasons has turned to shyt

It was a fake resurgence. Unless your getting a respected Gulf Royal and not some random cousin no one is going to pump the investment in year in year out like Moratti did for 18 years. And he only did that because he wanted to match his fathers legacy and win European Cup/Champions League.


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[Guile]

fukk Koeman he wouldn't play Konrad. Hope Barca finish 10th or some shyt.

 

[Sukairain]

It was a fake resurgence. Unless your getting a respected Gulf Royal and not some random cousin no one is going to pump the investment in year in year out like Moratti did for 18 years. And he only did that because he wanted to match his fathers legacy and win European Cup/Champions League.


Xi Jinping hitting you with

Romelukaku cost 80 million to sign and he's being unloaded for 115 million after two brilliant seasons. Even given that money is a problem, that's hardly much of a profit. He should be going for nearer to the numbers being quoted for Harry Kane.

Hakimi was signed for 40 million and just one season later has been sold for 60 million. Again we probably only made a very small profit on that, and in light of his amazing season he should surely have commanded a larger fee

Lautaro Martinez should have been the guy we sold, bought for 22 million, and now three years later his current prices are being quoted at 70 million. That's what I'm talking about. Subtract his wages and it's still in all likelihood something like 25 to 30 million profit.

If you're going to be a selling club at least be good at selling people. Demand maximum value. The players all have long term deals and they're all very happy to stay. The club therefore held the strong card in all the negotiations and it's so disappointing to see them let PSG and Chelsea off with bargains

 

[drifter]

Let me know when they do a PSG one.

 

[Roid Jones]

 

[Liu Kang]

I disagree, clubs and agents help each other out all the time. While obviously other clubs wouldn't give them the money they wanted, they would still help them offload players.

Italian teams do it all the time between each other and that Pjanic/Arthur swap deal from last season was just a way for both clubs to balance their books. I've mentioned it before but Juventus exchanged Spinazzola to Roma for a 20-year old left back who they immediately loaned out to Cagliari and then to Genoa, no intention of ever using him. It was a book balancing deal and also I believe a wink-wink deal for Zaniolo in the future, but then Zaniolo had two ACL injuries.

I'm sure Barca could easily find a partial salary loan for Coutinho and Pjanic, find a taker for Braithwaite, been less demanding with Atletico in that Griezmann exchange deal, but like you said instead of doing that they actually kept bringing in players

Clubs can do each other favors if both gain something out of it and the Arthur/Pjanic deal benefited both Juve and Barca as you said.

What deal could Barca have made to clear 120M in 4 weeks off their books ? And which other clubs was in need of a similar book balancing ?