06-08-2021, 03:35 PM
(06-08-2021, 11:20 AM)E.N. Wrote: Didn't he agree to half his salary with Barca?
I know that's still a crazy amount of money, but I think the issue is that they're pretty much at their salary cap without him and can't register him without selling a few players, even if he took next to nothing. They obviously thought there'd be interest in the likes of Coutinho but it's not happened. They've been run so badly it's not true, it's all their fault and not his, from what I can see
His agreed contract seemed to be all about getting around financial issues. It was halved but was a five year contract with an MLS clause where he could leave to go there after 2 years but would still recieve his full contracted wages for the 5 years.
At least something akin to that where they would essentially still be paying him his same wages from the past few years but spreading it over multiple years so as to look better in their accounts.
Terrible transfers and then the failed super league combined with giving insane wages to the likes of Griezmann have left them in an awful hole. How do they try to get out? By digging more. Signing the likes of Aguero on big wages before they even confirmed they could afford Messi was mad. If you can't afford him don't sign his mates