That was a bit different, though. Still think Leeds is a apt comparison
Frenkie de Jong | The last muppeting lap
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Yeah that’s true. We need to push this through and get on with the rest of our summer.
Agree
If the reports are true that they’re asking him to take a pay cut after deferring some of his wages because of covid then yeah, they are taking the piss, what he earns is really irrelevant, they signed the contract with him to pay him X amount, now they need to pony up they’re trying to get him to take another cut? And by all accounts he ain’t the only one and YET they’re still trying to buy players.
Mes que un wankers.
They're clearly trying to create a narrative that he is on too much wages and he should do the honourable thing and reduce what hes on. This will paint him as some mercenary when he leaves the club.
It's so obviously clear what they're doing.
True. Cases are different but the point I wanted to make it can even happen to the biggest clubs.
Yeah I understand the long term outlook but I'm at this point as well. People were getting mocked because "it was barely June" and now July is starting to trickle by and still so many holes. If we don't get fdj and lose Ronaldo we will need to add several quality players or this will be the worst united squad I can ever remember in my lifetime
Still, no club president in a fan elected role wants to be known for letting their best players go. Fans might not shed a tear now but if he leaves and shines elsewhere then I think they'll be pretty annoyed.
Plus he needs to be showing that he's willing to keep all of Barcas best/promising players there. He's not going to come out and say FdJ is for sale is he? Bit like we've not with Ronaldo but you know behind the scenes we're likely very open to him going. Barca NEED de Jong to go. He won't accept a pay cut or another deferral so if he stays, it'll be a nightmare for them.
If they publicly say they want him to stay they can say he needs to cut his salary, nothing stopping them saying you need to cut by 50% and waive €xM from your deferred pay. They know he won't accept that at all, but they can say they put an offer on the table and he said no
If we didn't need (and want) him that much, I'd love him to stay on his current contract and watch Barca go up in flames
I fecking hate Laporta and Barcelona.
Not necessarily. He’s not going to say he wants to leave or hand in a transfer request as that weakens his position on the money he is owed.
And if anyone was to know if the deal had collapsed and we'd walked away, I'd imagine that it'd be stone and the BBC
You think a club should bend over to a players salary demands instead?... Isn't that what got them into the mess they are in now?
Laporta is such a predictable dickhead.
What got them into the mess they are in now is that in order to win elections the presidents promised certain players, and wound up giving them deals that were far beyond their capacity in order to fight off interest from petrodollar clubs.
So they are holding their players to ransom - even those they already owe money to!
In the case of Frenkie they overextended themselves to stop him going to PSG.
I wonder will they ask lewandowski to take a pay cut as soon as he signs for them...
He will not come, right?
Dembele's case is different as he's out of contract, but that's not what there doing with everyone else, they've signed legal contracts, Barca are now asking players to reduce the salary of the contracts they've already signed, or deferring payments on said contracts, so they can register shiny new toys for big money.
they are a joke. hope we never do business with them again.
Hope Barcelona implodes under the weight of their own arrogance.
“More than a club”
Pricks
“More than a club”
Pricks
Right.
We have to build it first
Maybe get your facts straight before the faux outrage.
Yes and they should not have done so, and the renewal that the previous management gave him is insanse too.
Club attempting to get its wage bill in order and that's the right thing
How is that incorrect?
Mass exodus on the cards then
Laporta? Thank god no. de Jong? Deal with Barcelona agreed 29th of June, de Jong back from vacation a few days ago, so it will probably be ready any day now.
yes, people were used to Bartomeu with whom the players could write their own salary in their contract. It's something new, that a Barcelona president set a wage limit.
That's because we don't follow other club transfers so closely.
Every tweet is discussed and dissected, every transfer is a saga.
It’s not the money mate. The player doesn’t really want to leave. That’s been widely reported.
I would rather suffer through McFred for 4 months, get our fecking act together and scout players we need who want to come here, buy them in the January window than overpay for a CM, both transfer fees and wages, who doesn’t really want to play for us. Didn’t we just finally get rid of a underperforming, overpaid CM?
I say feck the Glazers for being absolute gits, devoid of intelligence and leadership. If ETH can only make this work with Frenkie De Jong, with no other options, no plan B, not a single player who can play the role he needs FDJ to play, then we are in a shitload of trouble.
No its not and I do actually.
We should walk away and call out their bluff.
We can always come back for him in a year or two. The way we are so fixated on some players is the reason we overpaid so much.
We can always come back for him in a year or two. The way we are so fixated on some players is the reason we overpaid so much.
Good idea.
Ok, fair enough.
it's a shame he even has to clarify that it was tongue in cheek
seemed pretty obvious to me. But it's undeniable that clubs know about Barcelonas finances and are willing to exploit it. More power to them.I mean I know Barcelona is a nice place to live (if you’re rich) and the club has great history, but who the feck would want to play for this sinking ship? They completely undermine their players, ask them to take massive pay cuts or deferrals (it doesn’t matter that they earn millions, nobody should be made to take 50%+ pay cuts when you have a contract) and they publicly lie. They also sign players and act like nothing is happening despite said pay cuts and debt.
They can’t continue like this - if I were them I’d sell the ones on massive wages who are worth some cash and use that famous academy. Accept there’s probably not gonna be any Champions League winning for a few years and get on with it, using their pull to attract free agents and young players
They can’t continue like this - if I were them I’d sell the ones on massive wages who are worth some cash and use that famous academy. Accept there’s probably not gonna be any Champions League winning for a few years and get on with it, using their pull to attract free agents and young players
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