Why should he take a pay cut?
He can stay at Barca without taking a pay cut, he and Barca have each agreed a contract between them that guarantees a certain salary for a certain period and while Laporte may not like, that and wish to dismiss their legally binding agreement, it doesn’t alter the facts.
In short; The facts are that Frenkie Ding Dong can stay at Barca until their contract expires, they can’t make him move if he doesn’t want to, and Barca are legally obliged to pay him every damn cent of what they agreed to pay him for the agreed duration.
What are his options?
I agree with everybody else, he shouldn’t *have to* take a pay cut but Barca can’t keep him on the wages he’s on. It’s pretty simple and pretty obvious that if he wants to stay there, he’ll have to reduce his wage.
It’s not about being on a high horse or anything like that, it’s about the club not being able to afford to pay him.
If he doesn’t want to leave, he needs to (whether rightly or wrongly) come to some sort of compromise or he’ll be shipped off.
Fine, shipped off but he doesn’t then want to go to the rags. So what does he do? Hold out for another club? Stay at Barca? Go to the rags? The first isn’t a guarantee and the other two are lessers of two evils.
Be interesting to see how it pans out.
That’s Barca’s problem. They offered and signed the contract to entice him there from his homeland and his boyhood club. They are legally bound to honour that contract, let alone ethically.What are his options?
I agree with everybody else, he shouldn’t *have to* take a pay cut but Barca can’t keep him on the wages he’s on. It’s pretty simple and pretty obvious that if he wants to stay there, he’ll have to reduce his wage.
It’s not about being on a high horse or anything like that, it’s about the club not being able to afford to pay him.
If he doesn’t want to leave, he needs to (whether rightly or wrongly) come to some sort of compromise or he’ll be shipped off.
Fine, shipped off but he doesn’t then want to go to the rags. So what does he do? Hold out for another club? Stay at Barca? Go to the rags? The first isn’t a guarantee and the other two are lessers of two evils.
Be interesting to see how it pans out.
They are desperate to get his wages off the books so highly unlikelyCouldn’t Barca effectively force FdJ out by leaving him on the bench or not picking him for games. If he wants to keep playing for his home country then he needs to play not left out nine the cold.