Barcelona, continue to cut wages, sell players
In this summer window, Barcelona is one of the most generous European giants. They have taken 6 strong aids in the transfer market and spent a total of 153 million euros, which is unparalleled among European giants. Of course, the reason why Barcelona, who was so poor before, turned around, was that they activated 3 economic levers in a row to get a lot of cash. However, if someone buys it, it’s a question of whether they can play football or not. Just today, August 6, La Liga recited the spell for Barcelona again.
According to the “Daily Sports Daily”, the official La Liga has informed Barcelona that due to insufficient conditions, they cannot register Roberto and Dembele, the six new aids and newly renewed contracts, and the Red and Blue Army need to continue to cut wages, Selling and selling assets, which is the so-called activation of economic leverage, can ensure that these 8 players play smoothly in the new season.
Prior to this, Barcelona President Laporta had said that he had submitted all documents to La Liga and was confident in the smooth registration of several new aids. However, La Liga’s reply poured cold water on the smug Barcelona president. According to the “Daily Sports Daily”, Barcelona’s current total salary is still a lot higher. They must cut wages, sell people and sell assets, and use this multi-pronged approach to meet the requirements of La Liga.
Now Laporte wants to clean up the most, undoubtedly Depay and De Jong are the two Dutch internationals. De Jong’s salary next season will be as high as 11 million euros after tax. He is not an outsider from La Masia’s youth academy, and it is natural to be on the cleaning list. On August 5, the “Daily Sports Daily” broke the news that Barcelona had given De Jong an ultimatum, either to choose a substantial salary cut or to leave Camp Nou. But the Dutch midfielder’s first choice is still to stay in Barcelona.
For Manchester United, coached by his mentor Ten Hag, De Jong is disgusted in his heart, because the Red Devils do not even qualify for the Champions League this season, and Chelsea were the Champions League champions last season. They are also willing to pay a satisfactory price for De Jong, or even Pay Barcelona’s 17 million euros in back wages. But so far, Chelsea’s attention has been focused on buying Brighton wing Cucurella. Now that Kuku has successfully joined, I don’t know if the Blue Army will make an official offer next. At least Barcelona is already looking forward to seeing it.
Compared with De Jong, his national team teammate Depay is even worse. When Lewandowski officially debuted at Camp Nou on Friday, he was wearing the No. 9 jersey that previously belonged to De Jong. In this regard, Barcelona President Laporta’s explanation is “for the interests of Barcelona”, of course. There is no need for Depay to be angry because of this, because when he joined Barcelona free last summer, he grabbed the No. 9 jersey from Braithwaite, and the latter had to change to the No. 12 jersey. Because, naturally, there will be today’s results.
In addition to trying to get rid of the two Dutch internationals, Barcelona also met with veterans such as Busquets, Pique and Ter Stegen, who are also high-paid players in Barcelona’s squad, according to the local Catalan media “ARA Daily” ” broke the news that Pique’s annual salary in the new season is as high as 52 million euros, so much because last summer, he accepted 70% of the salary deferral so that Barcelona could register for Depay and Eric Garcia, but the extension did not It is equivalent to a salary reduction. Now this big hole Barcelona has to fill in. The same is true for Busquets. Whether the two captains can sacrifice another for the old club is worthy of attention.
In addition, Laporta is also ready to activate the fourth economic lever, that is, to sell and then sell 24.5% of the shares of Barcelona Audiovisual Studio. These shares can be exchanged for 100 million euros in cash for Barcelona. Before the board of directors, the board of directors did not want to use this fourth lever, but now the situation is serious, and Barcelona has to live on their own. After all, living is the most important thing.
