If true and FdJ is their highest earner. How can they get to the reported 570 million Euro wage bill?
I don't have any inside but at Barcelona nothing adds up or makes any sense.
That includes Messi and Coutinho money right? And something like 400m of deferred wages.
They are a mess, but make no mistake, De Jong helped them out massively during Covid, how many players at other clubs, after being there just one year would accept almost 200k /week less wages for a year?
And make no mistake here, De Jong’s new contract guarantees him 260k euros /week for the duration of the 6 year contract. It’s look bad on the salary sheet now though, due to saving so much on his past two seasons.
No one in the club is looking at him as a mercenary when his salary is something we would expect for any top player at any top club. 260k /week just isn’t very high with today’s wages.
And to be fair, if they reimburse him the 17m from the past two seasons of shit pay and ask him then to take a slightly lower wage, I’d imagine he’d consider it. But by all accounts they want him to basically write off the last two years which is fecking disgusting and then also take a wage reduction.
It’s no surprise he’s told them feck off.