Why do Barca think they can get away with not paying his whole deferred salary?
It’s Barcelona. They are a criminal enterprise.
They know FdJ is a **** who loves Barcelona.
Yeah, I just wish we'd come out right now saying we're not interested. It might stop the tedious speculation
That's not how it works, any club negotiating his transfer will not entertain paying a high fee due to the incompetence of Barcelona and the deferred wages.
Even if he is on 600k a week, he's only on that much because he played for peanuts (relatively speaking of course) in his first two years, and what he should have been getting paid then is now being added on. He effectively loaned them money for two years and then they tried to force him out before they had to pay the money back, so nobody should be feeling sorry for Barca or thinking his agent 'bummed' them.
Answer is in between both of these. They'll start a smear campaign soon if he doesn't show signs of acquiescence.
It's been answered already Barca tried that last season as well But De Jong didn't budge on salary nor they were able to force him out .
They didn't try hard enough. They're shameless enough to ramp it up if they really wanted him gone.
Yeah the last part of it is kind of critical to me here. People are criticizing him for sticking with Barça but they are ignoring he is primarily forcing them to try and uphold their contractual obligations to him. Barca fecked around with this which is hardly his fault it seems.
Its weird, because it presented as if it's an option, paired with a big fee and suitors will be like - sure we'll pay the big fee because of your deferred wage payments, that's not fair on you. Or even presented like they should be able to pay only a percentage of the deferred wages because he's moving on, but they're the ones that want to sell.
You said "provided they can save most of his deferred salary". And then the second option is someone else pays for it with a higher transfer fee. That's just getting someone else to pay for it or you not paying it?
I agree .. Why would he leave & lose money .. Barca did the deal & now they have to live with it.
You do realize Barca aren't giving anything in any of those options? Everyone else is ceding something for Barca's benefit?
I expect him to stay too, he's currently on an overinflated wage for sure, renewing on lower wages will be the final outcome.
Pretty much. Nothing change. If i am a club DOF I won't even waste time on him, unless his agent come forward and indicate the player want the move.
So the outcome is written on the wall. just move on and lock the thread.
I was under the impression that he was in astronomical wages when Barca signed him, hence having to defer wages? Maybe I'm wrong here.
That seems a strange take, considering Barca did everything they could (constant public pressure to turn the fans against him, attempted to sell him, threatened legal action) two years ago and he just sat back and refused to accept anything other than them continuing to pay the contract that he had.
So true.