diarm
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And you make this assumption based on what exactly? Some rival forum opinion? Top players still don't think twice when Laporta and Xavi call. Some even accept lower wage offers to be able to play here. So far, we got nearly every transfer target we had. And we kept our young talents. Araujo turned down offers worth €3m a year more to stay. Gavi could join any club he wanted with his €50m release clause and he still wants to extend. Pedri extended for €6m, I'm pretty sure he had better offers on the table. Dembele had a take it or leave it offer and he took it.
So players still want to come and to stay. Let's go further.
What about fans and sponsors. We had recently 83.000 fans in a friendly game. Many of them tourists who payed a lot of money for tickets and kits. Lewandowski's shirt was sold out during the Gamper trophy. Seems like people still want to go to the "Spotify" Camp Nou and spend their money on a joke club. On Social Media platforms we are still a, if not the leading football club. The fact that our digital Studios are worth €400m, shows a big worldwide digital interest in Barcelona.
That leaves us with sponsors then? Spotify pays €70m a year, which will increase considerably with the new stadium, to a massively damaged reputation? That's quite a take you have there. A new arm sleeve sponsor will also pay double as Beko did in recent years. All facts of a damaged reputation, I see.
If I think about it, you are completely right.
All those numbers are meaningless if you've sold all future incomes to fund the next couple of transfer windows.
Barca could have kept the squad you have this season, supplemented it with a couple of talented youngsters from the academy and rode out the next couple of years while reestablishing your finances. All that you've written above would still be true and you'd be looking at a bright future having not sold your soul.
Instead, ye have turned your back on the culture of your club - preferring instead to mortgage your future existence in the pursuit of short term galactico success.