Messi

[BlueStevie35]

Find it hilarious how the Barca fans are blaming the likes of Griezemann, Coutinho, Umtiti etc for Messi leaving instead of turning their anger towards the people at the club and Messi himself

 

[PhilM]

Find it hilarious how the Barca fans are blaming the likes of Griezemann, Coutinho, Umtiti etc for Messi leaving instead of turning their anger towards the people at the club and Messi himself

It's not too indifferent to those in our own midsts who lambast the likes of Delph, to an extent rightly so, but won't accept the club's own shortcomings.

 

[Lord Buckethead]

Footballers have a value to the club or else they aren't signed.
Messi even when he drops to half wages isn't affordable to Barca in the current climate.
Clubs elsewhere will make him offers, he'll choose one and that will become his new value.

 

[Lord Buckethead]

I've given up trying to work out how some footballers think. Messi should take a pay cut and finish his career at Barcelona.

He just doesn't need any more money from them.

The deal was done for a contract at half his current wages, the Barca have found that even that is unaffordable.
They have been trying to sell players to bring in the cash, but their asking prices have been at a level that other Clubs are willing to pay, as like us their wages are very high as well.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Last year Messi's wages represented 27% of the total wage bill. I can't imagine why they're up the creek

 

[navidson]

What can you actually do with all that money?!

 

[PhilM]

The deal was done for a contract at half his current wages, the Barca have found that even that is unaffordable.
They have been trying to sell players to bring in the cash, but their asking prices have been at a level that other Clubs are willing to pay, as like us their wages are very high as well.

It was 50% of his current wages but over a five year contract, which was purely an accountants decision.

There's no way he is or was going to stay playing for Barca until he's thirty-nine to merit his astronomical wages, so it was the same money spread out.

 

[larrygobfiend]

What can you actually do with all that money?!

Beak and brasses

 

[Shevin Keedy]

Beak and brasses

Indeed, bloody good gear and all.

 

[Lord Buckethead]

It was 50% of his current wages but over a five year contract, which was purely an accountants decision.

There's no way he is or was going to stay playing for Barca until he's thirty-nine to merit his astronomical wages, so it was the same money spread out.

so probably a 3 year contract with the money spread over the 5 years then

 

[PhilM]

so probably a 3 year contract with the money spread over the 5 years then

In reality, yes. A lot of sources are suggesting that he'd have ended up with the equilvaent of his currently yearly wage over two and a bit years across the five.

It's not a pay cut if you're ultimately paid the same amount.

 

[YoboCopter]

As people have said hes got that much money itll never be spent in his life time his kids lifetimes or his kids kids lifetimes so why not just enjoy the end of your career at who ever you want to play for on like 80k a week or what ever

surely that would make most sense

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

No club is too big to fail

not a single one

 

[wm02]

Different sport of course but Messi could have benefitted from learning a bit from Tom Brady.
Brady regularly took a lower salary (still big money, of course) which allowed the Patriots to have a stronger team.
Peyton Manning, on the other hand, had max contracts which led to some more financial constraints for his teams.

 

[Tin-Tin]

Sounds like its very close to him joining PSG. Poor Depay probably only joined to play with Messi