Lionel Messi | Joins Inter Miami (pg4111)

[SWP's back]

Are you suggesting they are going to go bankrupt? What has been created at the Nou Camp has been magnificent, a model of club we have partly copied with great success as well. OK the cyclic nature of football has come home to roost but they will be back.

I see you know very little of Barca’s financial situation and plight.

 

[Mancity1980]

The issue with having short term presidents is that long term planning is forsaken. You may have watched Khaldoon talking about 5 and 10 year plans, for Barca planning is around the next presidential election. Also the gamble of having only two teams with any power, means the teams below are slowly becoming bankrupt, and have not the turnover to deal with the debt.
Sprinkle in a little bit of Tebas and you have a recipe for disaster.

I am by no means comparing their structure to ours, which is clearly superior, but there are 100s of millions if not billions of football fans around the world who would loved their club to be like Barca. We are clearly not in that group!

At the end of the day all good things come to an end but when it comes to big football clubs they eventually come back from disaster.

 

[manimanc]

This is going to run and run

 

[Keeper!]

I am by no means comparing their structure to ours, which is clearly superior, but there are 100s of millions if not billions of football fans around the world who would loved their club to be like Barca. We are clearly not in that group!

At the end of the day all good things come to an end but when it comes to big football clubs they eventually come back from disaster.

They make the Glaziers look competent!

 

[leo_city]

Hence their desperation to get a fee for Messi.

Yep, the only reason they were able to sign Griezmann and pay the money was because of those wages offered. Same with Frenkie, who is already on €450K per week, KDB's base salary isn't close to that.
They definitely need money

 

[kun]

Coutinho €150m
Dembélé €145m
Griezmann €120m
Pjanić €60m (losing Arthur)
Malcolm €50m
Paulinho €50m

players like KP Boateng, Braithwaite, Alcacer, Gomes were never really good enough.

Barcelona’s recent business has been nothing short of terrible.

 

[razman]

Great read

 

[paulchapo]

I’m glad you’re not on the club board.

So you'd rather we spent 100+ million for him now?

 

[ancoats]

I see you know very little of Barca’s financial situation and plight.

reports of debt around £700million yep a model of a club that manchester city sorry united are based on

 

[kalouk]

I do feel for the Barca fans. The majority that i've seen online did want Messi to leave like Vinny and Dave and are fuming that the club are embarrassing Barca and Messi with this shit show. It seems they are backing Messi and hate the way this is playing out.