Lionel Messi | Joins Inter Miami (pg4111)

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La Liga enforces a salary/transfer budget cap for each club based upon TV income and historic revenue from transfers. It includes things like youth teams, coaches, and even the amortisation of players. There's a brief explanation here.

La Liga Salary Cap – Season 2019/2020

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abu13 said:
A big plus from signing Messi would be how attractive we would become to potential new signings next year.

The opportunity to play and train alongside Messi is a very rare thing and not many players would pass up that chance.
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This is a great point. Could make the difference with a very big target.
 
Horlocksleftpeg said:
Why the fuck have we gone after Roy Keane ahead of this ****?
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The first thing that crossed my mind.
This is coming from a senior official, Keane was only spouting what an audience wish to hear.
The Cas ruling is over and City need to ensure that people stop rehashing the same old rubbish.
This man needs to be followed legally and made to apologise
 
BillyShears said:
I don't really understand their financial machinations fully tbh. Just think those headline figures seem quite big. Trying to shed 300 million from your wage bill - wow.
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Just a note - they don't have to shed €300m. Their max allowed wage bill has shrunk by that much, but they were previously considerably underneath that, at around €500m when the limit was €671m. So they need to offload roughly €120m which with the sale of Suarez, Vidal, Rakitic, Semedo, Rafinha and Turan, they should be close.

Blue Llama said:
How long have they had the salary cap? it obviously doesn't work with barca already deep in debt.
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The regulations came in about 6 years ago IIRC.
 
domalino said:
Just a note - they don't have to shed €300m. Their max allowed wage bill has shrunk by that much, but they were previously considerably underneath that, at around €500m when the limit was €671m. So they need to offload roughly €120m which with the sale of Suarez, Vidal, Rakitic, Semedo, Rafinha and Turan, they should be close.



The regulations came in about 6 years ago IIRC.
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No doubt a Fair Play initiative by Tebas
 
I just can't see how he stays there given they need to reduce their wages by that much and he's their highest earner. Plus the fact he wants to leave and his name hasn't been mentioned as one eager to help in those recent 'wage reduction' talks.
 
sandman1 said:
I just can't see how he stays there given they need to reduce their wages by that much and he's their highest earner. Plus the fact he wants to leave and his name hasn't been mentioned as one eager to help in those recent 'wage reduction' talks.
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I suspect all these stories coming out weekly are part of preparing the ground for him to leave, so the fans feel the club couldn't keep him, couldn't afford him, COVID fucked the finances.

All of this stuff was already true and an issue in July when he should have joined us, but the Spanish papers weren't reporting it.
 
domalino said:
I suspect all these stories coming out weekly are part of preparing the ground for him to leave, so the fans feel the club couldn't keep him, couldn't afford him, COVID fucked the finances.

All of this stuff was already true and an issue in July when he should have joined us, but the Spanish papers weren't reporting it.
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True. I'm surprised a Barca-based journo didn't release some of it, though, given how big a scoop that would've been for the biggest transfer story of the Summer.

I did hint earlier in the thread too that if Messi leaves then I'd assume he'd be painted in a good light - saving the club, couldn't stay due to finances etc. rather than jumping ship.
 
skillman said:
It’s come out that Barca will have to pay a €33m loyalty bonus to Messi at the end of the season. That’s a massive figure for a club already skint. That’s the price of a player or two.

Could push them to do a deal in January but whether Messi himself doesn’t want to miss out on the bonus is another story.

Maybe a chance to come out the good guy, leave mid-season to avoid them needing to pay him etc etc. Easy PR
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Nobody no matter how rich you would you turn down €33, he will stay there i reckon
 
abu13 said:
I hope we complained harder than we did after the dog wanking prick attacked Haaland.
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To be fair, the club announced at one point that they were going to sue Keane over that after he revealed that he deliberately set out to injure Haaland.

As for his comments over Walker, so what. Keane slags every fucker off regardless of who they play for so he can hardly be accused of having an agenda against our players.
 
www.skysports.com

Lionel Messi: Barcelona presidential candidate Victor Font wants to keep forward beyond playing career

Victor Font: If Lionel Messi goes to a competitor we will not find an alternative easily as there is no alternative to Messi... retaining him in the short term is critical. We want to make sure we create the right conditions for Messi to play a role in the club even after he retires
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Promising post retirement roles as well, i would bet on him signing a new contract and staying there for good.

I would have, before anyway, now even more so.
 
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