Intense days are coming at the Camp Nou and Ciutat Esportiva offices. To the FC Barcelona You need to lighten your roster of players because you have more than 25 that can be registered as professional chips and because, above all, you must drastically reduce your spending on salaries. In the first place, because it is far above the one that establishes LaLiga as a cap and should lower it by about 200 million. And related to this, because that salary expense forecast has been drastically reduced, we must include what you charge Leo
Messi to renew with Barça. One of the points that are holding back this renewal – Leo’s contract expired on June 30 – is that its continuity is linked to compliance with the ‘fair play’ de LaLiga, and according to sources of the Barça club worthy of total credit, we are now almost at the same point as weeks ago.
In this sense, to reverse the situation, it is necessary for Barça to go through three different routes. First of all, the club must intensify the departure of footballers who do not count towards Ronald
Koeman nor for the sports area. Among others, it is the case of Samuel umtiti, Miralem
Pjanic, Philippe
Coutinho, Carles
Alena, Moussa
Wagué O Junior
Firpo, for which there is already an agreement closed with Leeds that will report 15 million euros. In this case it is also Martin
Braithwaite but his good showing with Denmark at the Euro is raising his cache. All this, without ruling out that other footballers like grandchild
Murara, Clement Lenglet O Sergi
Roberto that are not essential. If all these exits occur, there will be income and a saving of spending on tokens. In this sense, as MD already published yesterday, apart from having given the club the letter of freedom to Umtiti already Pjanic, it is not ruled out that it ends up giving to more players with whom it does not have and who are reluctant to leave.
Two more ways
But not everything can be outputs in the form of assignments, transfers or letters of freedom to reduce spending on salaries. There is a second way that the club is obliged to travel, which is not easy but which seems obligatory: to lower the salaries of the footballers who earn the most. This is the case, for example, of Sergi Roberto, Gerard Piqué, Jordi Alba, Sergio Busquets Y Antoine
Griezmann. Without forgetting a Ousmane
Dembele to which you want to renew, but downward. And it is that from the club they reflect that, in a moment of maximum tension to be able to adjust to the salary parameters of LaLigaThose who have received the most when there were fat cows are those who must do their part in the lean times. The footballers, for their part, remember that in the final stretch of the 2019-20 season, the months of March, April, May and June were already lowered by 12%.
In this sense, one of the players who has already spoken with the club, specifically with the president Laporta, it is Gerard
Pique, being sympathetic to the club’s claim, although their situation has yet to be specified.
The third way that the club has to be able to reduce the salary tension, as is insisted from the Camp Nou, is that LaLiga lend a hand to the clubs and don’t be so restrictive when it comes to limiting wages. Even if Javier
Thebes, president of the Spanish football association, has already said both in private and in public that he cannot make an exception with the FC
Barcelona “Nor do some ad hoc rules on the issue of Messi”, From the Barcelona club they trust that he will change his position. In this sense, it is not expected that Thebes do you a favor for Barça, which would arouse their direct rivals by feeling victims of a comparative offense, but instead decide to reduce the pressure on the clubs given that the pandemic has reduced everyone’s income, but especially affecting the big ones, those who depend the most on ticketing, merchandising or visits to its facilities. It is expected that Thebes access it. If not, the issue will be more difficult, unless there is a large transfer or the signing of a large commercial agreement.
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