In for a penny in for a pound.
Or , as J Paul Getty famously said
”If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.”
Frenkie de Jong | The last muppeting lap
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Or , as J Paul Getty famously said
”If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.”
I wonder if all these Barca supporters were appalled when Frenkie’s deal was agreed in the first place. Probably not.
Eh, moral debt? How about ACTUAL debt too - don't they owe him like 100m in unpaid wages? This guy is the worst.
It’s either that or we are chasing a player we know full well isn’t joining us.
I just can’t fathom that.
The two bolded parts contradict each other.
Anyway, I don't agree that the difference in quality is "huge". In terms of getting him out of Napoli, he has 11 months left on his contract, so De Laurentiis is likely to be more amenable than usual.
Yeah I know we are run by morons but surely even this lot aren't that stupid to pursue someone not interested in coming
Like seriously how??
“We have a moral debt to pay our players their agreed wages… is what you’d think I’d say” Laporta… probably.
At this point, let them keep spending. Once every barrel has run dry then how will the Barcelona apologists respond..
Avoid you like the plague
5. Depsite all the above financial wranglings, they still can’t register new signings without either a) selling more club assets at Poundland reduced prices (keep pulling those leavers Laporta) or b) selling players they currently own
Shambles of a club
Well no offence, then you proceed to call me stupid and ignorant while contributing nothing to the discussion.
After 1117 pages. Same opinion as before. Stay away from him. He is not good enough, takes to much money and time and not what we need.
Is there any chance this means city would go for fdj?
Do they really still owe Messi his wages? Or is that BS
How the feck are they buying a whole new football team
They previously said no thanks. I don't see how he backs himself to get in their side.
Make him disappear
I don't want to say it but "levers"
It’s kinda the same as you or me taking a huge payday loan out, buying a sports car, furnishing the house, going on a world cruise & hiring an in house chef. Oh, and skipping my child support payments at the same time.
Great while it lasts, but unless my lottery numbers come up (and I miss playing most weeks) it’s going to come crashing down sooner or later.
Finally, here we go again
They owe both him and Pique between 40M and 50M each in deferred wages and there are others owed lesser amounts.
Edit. They also allegedly still owe money to Liverpool for Coutinho too
So the deferred wages may not actually be the hold up if Messi is away from the club and getting paid his deferred wages?
If they're after Bernardo, then they're confident that Frenkie is leaving.. and not on some BS loan.
The spanish press have literally been reporting that they'll only get Bernardo if Frenkie goes.
Frenkie Friday is real.
The spanish press have literally been reporting that they'll only get Bernardo if Frenkie goes.
Frenkie Friday is real.
Frenkie de jong to man united, here we go! All wage issues resolved, the player will fly to Carrington for a medical in just days.
...ise what I'm hoping to wake up to.
Its embarrassing how this thread gets updating twice every second for a player Barcelona are treating like like a bag of poop.
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Move him on!
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I could see Saul Goodman saying to a client, "Levers, son, levers, that's how I'll get you off the charges."
Except we don't know how the contracts work, one would assume Messi had smarter lawyers who made sure it was written into his contract he would get his money no matter what. Frenkie seems to have signed a deal which says the deferred wages are just salary. If you don't work here you are not due them. If he leaves he gets nothing.
Messi deferred wages in the last year of his contract and so the deferred sum went into some sort of payment plan. Frenkie had years left on his contract so his deferment was rolled into future years of his contract. The holdup therefore is Barca saying that money is future wages and therefore not owed if he leaves whilst Frenkie takes the view that if he is to leave he wants the previously deferred amount separated from future earnings and paid to him either as a lump sum or under some instalment arrangement.
"Levers" or, as it's less commonly known "the secret Barcelona money printing room"
Seriously know, they can't keep this up without something giving. De Jong surely has to be nearly gone
Don’t think many people will listen to that.
Well explained. Cheers.
It's not forbidden but pressuring a player to accept a wage cut while the club is signing everyone under the sun this summer is pretty scummy, particularly after he had already agreed to help out Barcelona by deferring his wages once.
It has nothing to do with narratives or hate or anything, it's just such an obvious dick move.
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Yes. Having agreed to be flexible and help the club out in the past, I am sure he would be quite reasonable about how and when he gets the money but it is not reasonable to ask him to forgo the money.
I thought this was going to go right up to September. Jim White is on standby.
Anyway. Can anyone explain of why Barca needs all these levers to get money, while United can have 500m in debt without sacrificing future TV rights and such? Thanks.
It just proves that if Barca don't value you, they'll absolutely let it be known they don't, all whilst trying to portray this "loving family club" image.
He's been booted out of his favoured position, moved to CB, then told he's going to be a backup CB at that as Kounde and Arujo are "the future".
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