This is your list of 30 or above.
- Pique
- Busquets
- Alba
- Lewandowski
- Aubameyang
- Pjanić
- Neto
- Braithwaite
- Neto
- Sergi Roberto
There is a decent group of young guys like Fati/Gavi/Pedri, but the group above is a core of players on massive wages who at least half of them get very important minutes so far. Of course a big chunk of wages will clear, but they aren't sellable assets and you'll need to replace most of them. I'd say that's a pretty big rebuild.
For the life of me I can't find the thread/article/comparison from last year, but this isn't true at all. Some clubs fecked of course (Everton), but most of them pretty much fine and PL clubs just don't spend anywhere near as much on wages to turnover as Spanish clubs do and have healthier sources of income (which also points to them not being hit too hard during COVID, or not as bad as other leagues).
I get your point generally, but i still don't see spending 200k per week on Christensen as healthy, or 70m and 240k per week on a rotation winger as healthy. The new salary budget can't be "nobody goes above 350k but everybody can have 200k". That's still shit. We'll see what happens with the other players, I agree that the biggest problems are the older existing contracts but they'll be around for a few years yet. Once those are sorted, it remains to be seen what happens. For example... Fati is 19 but on 270k per week basically. Is he just not going to get salary increases then? There are 13 players who are above 10m per year, and each of the new signings are part of that group despite 2 of them being squad players. And those were signed on the basis of selling future revenues, without being able to sell players they want to sell... Its still not healthy.
