If someone offered me a 20 year old Messi for the naming rights of Old Trafford, I would in all honesty decline, even if it only was for a few years. Dear me what a joke Barcelona are if this is true...
Barca could sell naming rights to fund Messi's £80m bonus. Wage bill climbs to £430m
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That's crazy. No player should be given that. Barca are idiots. What does Messi know about politics? He's a convicted money laundering dude. Crazy, if true.
That's crazy. No player should be given that. Barca are idiots. What does Messi know about politics? He's a convicted money laundering dude. Crazy, if true.
Next is players start selling their naming rights. Imagine Messi getting paid to change his name to "Always Coca-Cola". Commentators would be forced to say his name, or not say his name, whatever was the case.
"and this years winner of the Balon D'or is Always Coca-Cola"
"and this years winner of the Balon D'or is Always Coca-Cola"
Like the he boxer Medgoen Singsurat, sold his name to a battery company and became known as Fashan 3K Battery.
Messi es més que nuestro club
It tells me he's a smart person. The same as every guy like Rooney, Keane etc who's tried to get the biggest package that they can get. Why should he not make as much money of the back of his talent as he can? If the employers think it's unfair they don't have to pay it.
I don't get the problem? Messi is priceless to Barcelona and if 80m is what it takes they're gonna pay up.
It's a ridiculous amount of money, but then again they don't have Neymar on their payroll anymore. This story is probably bollocks.
Off topic but many of our fans blame rooney for threatening to leave the club and his wages. Atleast he never signed a contract renewal and wanted bonuses every 6 months to stay at the club
Yes, because you have to draw the line somewhere. If he said 5m a week , clearly, you would have to say no.
At circa 1.5m a week.....I'd say no.
He was never good enough to demand that kind of deal.
Don't forget for 6-7 years he was one of the top five paid players in the world.
I was pointing out to people who still think rooney is not our club legend just because he threatened to leave. I want to know their opinion regarding messi for the very same reason
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Do people realise that Barcelona have had Messi for over a decade. If you told any chairman or owner now that they can keep a player of Messis level and consistency for the next 10 years, they will sign a blank cheque for him.
You taking the piss?
If he was producing Messi numbers some fans wouldn't mind renaming Old Trafford to Auld Slapper.
I think you are spot on. Messi is still the best player in the world - Ronaldo a distance behind him - and a few others behind him. However, that's a pretty awesome quartet that would be good for five years and Mbappe and Dembele for ten. They were lucky to get past PSG in the UCL last season and in the Paris game they were completely overran. They need to strengthen their midfield. Iniesta and Busquets not what they were and they could do with a Matic/Pogba duo in there.
Might find out if he can do it on a wet Wednesday night at Stoke
Or a wet Wednesday night at Lille, more like.Might find out if he can do it on a wet Wednesday night at Stoke
And people called Neymar greedy
how much money does he need? Greedy little tax dodger.
Sell him and be done with it -
Wouldn't Madrid have to live with Ronaldo going/getting worse with age too? Players get older and you need to transition, which arguable, is what Barca didn't plan for at all. Losing Neymar scared them into panic-buying and, if they give in to Messi's demands, into panic-renewing.
I don't really blame players for milking the clubs, but not to the point where they have to work out how to get more money. That just filters through to other bullshit happening, usually at the detriment of the fans.
Lol, madness. I wonder how much he made.
Barca are backed into a corner here with the bonus, because another club could sign him on a free and pay it and would still see it as being being than a transfer fee.
What does he need all that money for?
Messi is doing the right thing. He has the talent to ask that much. So if Barca don't meet his demands he will just leave to elsewhere as there will be others willing to meet said demands.
You people are forgetting that he is the face of the club and their biggest marketing tool as well, so they would stand to lose more than just the best player in the world.
It's no different than someone offering you more money to do the same job that you are uniquely doing for your company driving the business, keeping it competitive and you going up to your boss and saying that other company is offering you more money for the same job so either meet it or you're off.
Everyone in all walks of life is always looking to make more money, it just happens that footballers money is calculated in the millions whilst us peasants do it in the thousands.
You people are forgetting that he is the face of the club and their biggest marketing tool as well, so they would stand to lose more than just the best player in the world.
It's no different than someone offering you more money to do the same job that you are uniquely doing for your company driving the business, keeping it competitive and you going up to your boss and saying that other company is offering you more money for the same job so either meet it or you're off.
Everyone in all walks of life is always looking to make more money, it just happens that footballers money is calculated in the millions whilst us peasants do it in the thousands.
Not wrong on messi part, stupid on barca part to pay this much for a 31 yo.
Remember when Barca fans piled on Neymar and slaughtered him for moving to PSG for the money?
Good times.
Good times.
I can't believe people are having a go at Messi.
Messi is a greedy cnut
I think generally footballers are expected to hold a little more love for their club than the average joe does for their company. If we just take every player as a mercenary then I'd agree with you.
Personally i think there's a balance, players know that their money is sourced from the fans and they only enjoy such wages because of the fans. They also know that at some point receiving such ridiculous fees damage the club, can't say whether that's the case here.
Its an (alleged) 80 mil bonus paid over the term of his 4 year contract. When the alternative is losing him on a free I don't see it as a huge thing. But when they have lost neymar's wages off the book and received 220 mil up front for him from PSG I doubt that there is a need to sell the stadium name due to Messi, probably it was always the plan given the cost of a new stadium?
Kind of a weird one. Personally, I have to imagine Barca will be in a better position in 2 year's time if they sold him at a stupid, stupid price and then spent the proceeds on 5 or 6 younger players to improve the squad. For those 2 years though, Messi obviously offers more.
Find it surprising that a player that has been there his whole adult life isn't a bit more loyal and pragmatic. He's made legacy money already, and it's not like sponsors aren't going to continue paying him for the rest of his life, not to mention investment returns and other ventures he could get into as a young man with huge capital.
He seems to be putting his 'beloved' club at real risk by asking so much, not to mention that presumably he'd also have a better time of it for his remaining years if he freed up some funds to buy better teammates.
Find it surprising that a player that has been there his whole adult life isn't a bit more loyal and pragmatic. He's made legacy money already, and it's not like sponsors aren't going to continue paying him for the rest of his life, not to mention investment returns and other ventures he could get into as a young man with huge capital.
He seems to be putting his 'beloved' club at real risk by asking so much, not to mention that presumably he'd also have a better time of it for his remaining years if he freed up some funds to buy better teammates.
I guess that means he has not signed the contract yet, that he signed six months ago, two months ago, one month ago.....
They're idiots to have agreed to it and hes within his rights to hold them to it. They should have called his bluff on the renegotiation instead of seemingly ceding to whatever ridiculous demands he gave them. I don't think he'd want to leave any more than they would want him to. His legacy is cemented at Barcelona, why take the risk that he might not be as good elsewhere.
This is what I have been saying for years the best players in the world should do, once they have reached financial security. Why agree to be sold by your team in the last year of your contract for upwards of €25M, when you can bank all the money yourself in 12 months (or at least a large part). We see it more and more. Messi, Ozil and Sanchez right now. It´s just smart.
i guess if anyone is worth it then he is.
Wages at 84% of turnover though! Wow, i'm no business expert but that suggests to me a potential disaster, esp if the political issues really get nasty
Wages at 84% of turnover though! Wow, i'm no business expert but that suggests to me a potential disaster, esp if the political issues really get nasty
Saving up for a super yacht, he's sick of smug gits like Abramovich lording it over him. Who can blame him.
No he's not. The right thing will be to have a term that both him and the Club, that has made him like today, to be left happy. This whole thing, seems like Messi has treated his club like his bitch.
If Messi wants or needs more money, he could get them from sponsors or other outside sources.
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