Yeah fair enough, I'll swap it out for a pic of him high fiving his mate the First Lady instead, in non MLS capacity
Or I could have a pic with him and his mate the biggest movie star on the planet, etc. As you say, anyone questioning that doesn't know what they're talking about.
It is not as simple as that. They had sponsorship agreements tied to Messi being part of the team that's why they are trying to get him onboard even now. Without Messi, their revenues fall further.
You have a pic of Becks and Jackie Chan!?
You can't really put the wage issue aside. It's their most pressing matter.
Depay and Aguero were brought on a free as a Griezmann replacement and as a Braithwaiht upgrade.
Yeah neither is good enough, but Depay can play 2 roles and Koeman got results with him at the NT. Aguero will come in handy in the box vs weaker teams.
You can't expect them to field their entire youth team. It has to be a mix and the bosmans are financially the most responsible way to do it.
Utd having had a few technical midgets over the years must've given some on here a wrong impression of La Liga. Barca can't play some 17 year old against Varane, in the same way we can't play Hugill against Tyrone Mings.
It happens to every team at some point. However with the spanish and german teams in particular, the gap in revenues and size between the dominant clubs and the rest is too big for even drastic drops in quality to mean much. Their failures are highlighted more in Europe during those periods. Which is completely different from the Premier league and what Serie A used to be. What happened to us and Liverpool have happened to Juventus in the late 80s and early 90s, Milan in the late 90's to 2002, Inter from 1990 to Calciopoli etc. If they had a bad run, the Roma's, Lazio's, Parma's, Napoli's and Sampdoria's were always there to punish them for it.
Their wage bill is just too high in general. They pay too much money to transfers, to older players in the squad, to free transfers, to anyone.
Right. The issue is signing a 'replacement' for a player that hasn't actually gone anywhere.
There surely are some clauses about that in the contracts, but I doubt that such details will be made public.
Probably - but as I say the two options I can envisage (if they cant register them) both involve some late transfer day scrambling for some very good players
No thanks, we are hopefully about to get rid of one player who bends over and flashes his arse at spain every season, I dont want another. He is Barca through and through.
Would be fun if that does not happen and some players would have to stay but are not allowed to play.
I think that would be a shame personally - though I guess we will find out in a little over 2 weeks as Barca's first league game is 15th August
They don't, but the point is they have to reduce their wage bill to be allowed to register newly signed players (including Messi). Getting rid of Griezmann would be transfer cost, not wages.
Interesting numbers. So the buying club would still be on the hook for about 500k per week? Does AM have cap space for that (since they are the only club currently on the yes list)? That also amounts to about 15M saved on salary cap space, not even 10% of what they need. They 'might' get a fee, but why would most of the clubs with the wherewithal actually stump up much of a fee knowing Barca's issues, let alone the huge salary incurred? It will be interesting to see how much rival clubs are willing to help vs turn the screw. Not only La Liga but CL rivals. The big unknown is what exactly are the consequences if Barca can't get the needed reductions. Points deduction? Contracts voided? As it is, Messi can't be registered.
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