Yeah even before then I guess his agent is angling for some of the aguero wages
Their only other defender who's even vaguely close to good enough for a top team is Jordi Alba though so you're not saying much.
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Barca still have to navigate around their wage bill. Aubameyang had to take a paycut to play for them. We are going to get a few players off the wage bill.
Didn't everyone say this about Varane before he joined? Let's have some hope sometimes.
Since I have been reading the caf going on 20 years now the default position is always that any player worth a damn would prefer to play elsewhere.
Barca aren't even offering €4m, so we go straight in with €10m? Something doesn't add up, either our negotiating team for contracts haven't learnt their lesson with high salaries, or it's BS.
Is he even worth it? Every time I’ve seen him play he’s been pretty average.
I thought he was Barcelona’s best CB? Although that’s not saying too much with the current crop they have, being led by a 36 year old Pique.
Admittedly, I haven't been watching them week in week out. I think I've only seen 1-2 games of theirs in 2022. When I was watching them in 2021, I didn't think he was all that.
Absolute nonsense isn't it. Why the hell would we pay him 180k a week - not even sure if it's net or gross. If it's net, it's even more obvious we're being used.
It’s gross
Still, I struggle to see how we'd immediately pay him the roughly the same as Bruno/Maguire.
It would certainly make sense if his contract expired in June 2022, the difference x 5 year contract would be a 30M fee, which is peanuts. Barca are 100% the ones low-balling him and offering him less than that in wages for the better part of his expected career peak. Skint bastards are playing with fire here.
Well if it is true, then it’s because the current circumstance have presented an opportunity to leverage better financial terms. There’s no point going in and matching Barcelona’s offer, that’s not where the risk is to them. It’s a unique situation where he needs to renew but they are skint. Our leverage here is financial.
Looks like a very front foot defender. Not at all passive like Maguire.
Maguire is not a passive defender which is actually his problem imho. Always going in for the duel without the agility or speed to recover if beaten. Lindelof and Varane are more passive in that they favour to blocking to engaging.
