Joao Cancelo | Al Hilal Player

[ElMago_DSilva]

Because the pay a premium price to get those terms. Do you really think Torres was worth 55. You are embarrassing yourself.

Oh stop being patronising.

They paid a high amount on players last season (almost 140m) because of the money they had coming in from selling off their future income and they also agreed a big loan too with the banks. They haven't paid a high amount on players this season (about 2m on Romeu).

You work it out yourself. Money doesn't grow on trees at Barcelona. Eventually you have to pay your bills. Everyone does.

Cancelo is worth a lot more than 20m. We bought him for 60m.

 

[Rammy Blue]

Unfortunately, when you extend someone's contract, you amortise the rest of their book value over that contract.

So the first 3 years he amortised 9m a season, but starting with that new deal in 2022, the remaining 28m got spread over 6 years - 4.6m/year.

So his book value is still £23.4m, not £19m.

His new deal was a 2 year extension to summer of 2027 so a little less book value than your estimate.

 

[Odd socks]

The lad should be embarrassed being valued at £20M basic, just look around at worse players ( talent wise), he really has made a twat of himself.

 

[Nicholas van Whatsisface]

Oh stop being patronising.

They paid a high amount on players last season (almost 140m) because of the money they had coming in from selling off their future income and they also agreed a big loan too with the banks. They haven't paid a high amount on players this season (about 2m on Romeu).

You work it out yourself. Money doesn't grow on trees at Barcelona. Eventually you have to pay your bills. Everyone does.

Cancelo is worth a lot more than 20m. We bought him for 60m.

We bought him for £60m back in 2019 (although we only paid £27.4m as Danilo was part of the deal) - when he was 25.

At 29, he’s clearly going to be worth less than we paid for him.

Clubs also know we want rid of him as he’s on a long term contract with high wages, and he’s fallen out with Pep and half the squad.

In that context, I’d say £28m is a pretty good deal.

More than covers his amortised value, gets his wages off the book, and his negative influence out of the squad.

We have to view this as an unusual set of circumstances given how quickly it soured after signing his new deal, so we acknowledge this is the cost for getting him out of the Club.

 

[yankblue]

I think we'll try to get a bit more but at the end of the day he's in his age 30 season, on high wages (4th or 5th highest at the club I think?), and Pep might not want to ever play him again. Might not be a bad time to cut our losses

 

[jimharri]

How on earth are we still dealing with Barca; don't they still owe us for Torres?

 

[domalino]

His new deal was a 2 year extension to summer of 2027 so a little less book value than your estimate.

We'll get there eventually. It's roughly 20m, so if we get that much we're doing OK.

 

[Inter Me Nan]

How on earth are we still dealing with Barca; don't they still owe us for Torres?

 

[Cityfan]

Because the pay a premium price to get those terms. Do you really think Torres was worth 55. You are embarrassing yourself.

When we sold Torres he was a first choice forward for Spain scoring freely and had played well for us when chosen. He had a long term contract and was one of Spains most promising players. The fee at the time was not considered high by most observers.

 

[mancityscot]

How on earth are we still dealing with Barca; don't they still owe us for Torres?

there's no evidence that we are. Could be all papertalk