NOt much longer I think. I think we'll know for sure in the next 3 days.
Frenkie de Jong | The last muppeting lap
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You have to sell either the television rights or 49% of BLM, or both, to recover the losses of these years of pandemic. If you don't you can't register any player.
If you try to recover the losses by selling players you have one team left to be in the middle of the table with a lot of luck.
We all thought the same last week.
No, the club estbalished a contract with the player when they signed him. Now because of their own mess they expect the players to bend over and reduce what they have agreed and signed with the club. It is the Barca fault not the players. Barce should have thaken care of their finances beforehand and not expect players to budge. Barca and do on...Mess of a club that tries to move the blame onto the players.
The one who holds all the cards is Frenkie de Jong. Barça can‘t force him to accept lower wages: he is owed about a million Euros a week next season. They can‘t force him to leave either.
But he should leave, because he is being disrespected. What a shiit club.
But he should leave, because he is being disrespected. What a shiit club.
He's back from holiday this week.
That's the problem with Barca and why i think that club deserves all the shit that comes to them. Neither the fans nor the board are absolved of blame. Laporta knows the fans will turn on him if he decides to be prudent, not sign high profile players for a few years and try to get UCL football and so he has to say and do all these to pander to the fans. Perez would have already sold DeJong and moved on (not like they would he stupid enough to sign him for such a contract in the first place).
Sure, blame the pandemic
I don't like this option either, but it's something that I'm saying the club can do, a hypothesis in case FDJ doesn't want to lower his salary or go to another team.
This would not create any precedent because it is an exceptional case of an exceptional situation, such as a pandemic, and Bartomeu's negligence. Once the club accounts are balanced this will no longer happen.
This speaks volumes about Barcelona, yet its us that are getting the brunt of insults of incompetence. Makes no sense to me.
How many transfer windows have we seen big transfer take ages to cross over the line. The Berbatov transfer must have made SAF and Gill idiots too for staying so long trying to get the player. If a transfer is being negotiated for a player, usually taking some time since its a big player, and the team being negotiated with start acting wild, how is it our fault. Our fans haven't even given us a chance to pivot before labeling our new football leadership team incompetent.
Then there is Ronaldo, a player who many wanted gone at the end of the season. Love him, but was clearly one of the issues with the dressing room. Understandably wants to leave due to the failure of our last managers in getting UCL football. I'm guessing we'd be willing due to how much he's done for the game. Again, what has the club done wrong. They haven't been given the opportunity to replace. It's like all people want to do is complain and act like we are the worst club.
How many transfer windows have we seen big transfer take ages to cross over the line. The Berbatov transfer must have made SAF and Gill idiots too for staying so long trying to get the player. If a transfer is being negotiated for a player, usually taking some time since its a big player, and the team being negotiated with start acting wild, how is it our fault. Our fans haven't even given us a chance to pivot before labeling our new football leadership team incompetent.
Then there is Ronaldo, a player who many wanted gone at the end of the season. Love him, but was clearly one of the issues with the dressing room. Understandably wants to leave due to the failure of our last managers in getting UCL football. I'm guessing we'd be willing due to how much he's done for the game. Again, what has the club done wrong. They haven't been given the opportunity to replace. It's like all people want to do is complain and act like we are the worst club.
The club historically haven't usually briefed about transfers until they're done. At one time of day some privileged journos would be briefed off the record to keep them onside, but times change and nowadays the media is constantly chasing stories for the 24 hour news channels and clicks, to the extent that they have even been known to make up stories! As for efficiently - there are two sides (at least) to every transfer, so lots of issues are outside of the club's control.
Sure, you don't sign anyone and you've been seven or eight years, hopefully, without signing anything. There will be years that your team will not qualify for the Champions League, less money from sponsors, less money from tickets, from the box office, less members and season ticket holders... This strategy doesn't sound bad. You also say that the fans will support Laporta if he does this. You don't know anything about Barcelona.
I have said during the years of the pandemic, not that it has been the only reason why Barcelona has had losses. I've said more things you can try to refute me. It's not nonsense.Sure, blame the pandemic
We’re nearly there. At long last, we are very very close.
Couple more replies and it’ll be 500 pages.
Couple more replies and it’ll be 500 pages.
This isn't happening, 2 month saga and still same old
Spot on.
Anyone blaming United or Bayern for the way the FDJ or Lewa transfers have been conducted are mad.
Barca are a complete cirkus.
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There you go guys, nothing to worry about 
Extra holiday for Arnold's team working on the De Jong deal in Barcelona, yay!
So it begins
Yes more than a club just a sinking ship .
.Horrible horrible club. feck them and their levers. cnuts
Isn't he only allowed to reduce his salary by a certain amount? I thought I read something about that while Messi was leaving.
That's at least a line that was repeated time and time again that Messi should lower his ridiculous wage demands
Not sure about that
There we go... the seeds have been planted. Barca will now offer him something ridiculous, that they KNOW he won't accept and then say that he left because he didn't want to reduce his salary. Leaves Barca looking like the good guys for trying everything to get him to stay, and de Jong as the money hungry mercenary who "loved" the club, but loves money even more
Guillem Balague in a sportsjoe article I found:
'It broke Messi's heart and once again he feels betrayed by the club he has given so much to. Barcelona had asked him to accept a 50% reduction in wages and he accepted without even trying to negotiate it.
'In fact a 50% reduction is the legal maximum anyone can be compelled to take, so even if Messi had been prepared to accept a bigger reduction, the club would have been breaking the law had they agreed to it.'
Or he could just ask Barcelona to honor the contract that they signed with him. Scumbag club.
Interesting. Should really be ours then.
Barca are such a funny club, it's quite blatant what they're doing.
@fps
This BBC article also backs that up
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footbal...Messi's heart and,even trying to negotiate it.
This BBC article also backs that up
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footbal...Messi's heart and,even trying to negotiate it.
Thank you for coming in today Mr Barca President....we appreciate this has all been dreadful for you!
Please help us to help you!
Point out on this doll where the nasty man touched you and forced you to spend all that money on players you couldn't afford!
Please help us to help you!
Point out on this doll where the nasty man touched you and forced you to spend all that money on players you couldn't afford!
Why is this a thing?
I explained it to you perfectly.
The South American market is for those who pay the most right now.
Do you think a Brazilian club is going to sell cheaper because it's Spanish or not? Or is a player going to go to a Spanish team earning much less?
Barcelona were run horrible, now we will have to wait for some time to judge.
How do Barca fans feel about this? It's disgusting.
The meltdown here is insane. Can you guys just relax and wait for the conclusion rather than reacting frantically to every “story” or “info” emerging?
That’s simply not true
So if the €40 MIllion euro figure was correct. Even if he reduces by the maximum 50% that's still €20 million and still a lot of money for them.
Kessie is being paid ~€7 million.
There is no way they keep him on that wage in my opinion. They have to sell him.
Kessie is being paid ~€7 million.
There is no way they keep him on that wage in my opinion. They have to sell him.
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