Is it actually possible for him to stay on his current contract and Barcelona able to reconcile this with registering their new signings for La Liga? I don’t think this is a possibility, is it? Or do they have more dodgy levers they can pull to arrange this?
I don't know if they can fix the situation without de Jong agreeing to a transfer or a new contract.
If not, the situation could get very ugly. Depending or not, if they can simply leave him out of the squad registration without any consequences if he says no to both the pay cut and the transfer.
Can they pull an extra lever ?
Can they send few players on loans to balance the books ?
The agents of players like Lewandowski, Raphina, Kessie, ect would stupid not to have gotten guarantees from Barcelona that they have all the cards in their hands about their registration in their LaLiga squad.
Or those players do have a clause that they can walk for free if they are not registered, which would be really silly from Barcelona