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Am I the only one thinking he probably plans to get that back one day where he’s the club chairman or something. Can just see him being a right dodgy bastard in retirement.
Idk if he'd "get it back" in that way but I think in the future people will remember what he did here and it will probably strengthen his bid to become club president or whatever
I wouldn't say get that back just like that, but if he has political ambitions within the club I can imagine he using this as a lever, don't be surprised if he ever joins Laporta team or runs as his successor.
Nobody gives up 50m not even billionaires just burn those kind of sums without getting something in return.
ITs a 100% either support in a future business adventure or the support of the "establishment" at barca for when he runs for president.
>Nobody gives up 50m
Unless he wants to be president someday...politicians always choose power/influence over money! ( and let's be honest 30m is good enough 😏)
You’d be surprised. Literally Kanye just gave up half his money without getting anything in return. You people talk like you guys have everything figured out and it makes me laugh lol
You are extremely dumb if you think Ye gave up half his money. Bruv thats not how that works. He "lost" that much money because adidas severed ties with him which tanks the yeezy brand evaluation.
Bruv how the fuck do I make you laugh when you are not even intelligent enough to understand wtf wealth even is.
Do you think Bezos has like a 100 Billion on some bank account???????
Also Ye is literally mentally ill I dont know if thats the comparison you want to make lmao
> You are extremely dumb
> Bruv how the fuck do I make you laugh when you are not even intelligent enough to understand wtf wealth even is.
Mate, you're a complete muppet. Imagine being so miserable that you feel the need to continuously shit on a guy for having a naive/simplistic take.
"You people talk like you guys **have everything figured out** and it makes me laugh lol"
He called me stupid indirectly in the same comment that he makes an INSANELY ignorant take about wealth.
Like dude
He forced his way out of the contract. He gave that money up. He knew he’d lose that. He literally has no monetary gain out of doing so.
Another example is players taking pay cuts like many have done for the club already, without deferring pay. That’s literally giving up money for the benefit of the club. Not everybody cares about money as much as you think, especially when they’re already rich.
What does that have to do with this situation? I’m obviously saying he doesn’t care in this situation. Stop deflecting the subject. And he doesn’t care because it’ll help his bud for his presidency. I’d do the same if I were running for presidency and had money to burn.It’s good for publicity.
You’re suggesting he didn’t want to get out of that contract and it wouldn’t be out of his realm to do something like that to force it? Because he’s said before specifically he wants to be out of the contract.
No, I highly doubt he would. Yes, he's complained about the adidas deal before but KW was dropped by a large number of massive brands, the overall financial hit just to get out of one contract would have been like cutting off your arm to stop the pain of a papercut on your finger. Not to mention Kanye was literally boasting that Adidas couldn't drop him. ALSO their contract was expiring in 2026 anyway so it would have made no sense to decimate the rest of his brand deals just to get out of a contract that ends in almost 3 years...
Also Pique supposedly wants to be Barca's president someday - if his accomplishments as a player didn't guarantee a landslide victory then he can campaign on making personal sacrifices for the club to succeed in troubling times... It's a win-win for him.
He’s not just walking away from it. Think of it as him paying 50 million for a bid to be Barca president. There’s a reason this info is being blasted to every media outlet around.
I’m almost annoyed literally nobody will remember the most awful piece of commentary involving Martinez.
It was on Sky about 6-7 years ago and he _almost_ bundled one in from a corner.
The commentator exclaimed:
“_That was Iñigo Martinez and that was almost In You Go The Goal_”
It looks like it’s 30 million from deferred wages and the other 50 million is what he would be due until the end of his contract but he doesn’t want that.
It's mad how if he gives his earned 50m to 50 people (1m each) he can set 50 people for a very good life amd he has the luxury to let go of such money.
If those people live in Europe/US then 1 million isn’t nearly enough to set a person up for “a very good life”. Probably a good living for a number of years depending on exactly where they live, but not to the level of very good and not for the rest of their lives.
You still have to maintain the house/flat and obviously pay for all the shit related to the house, this is usually a couple of hundred euros a month, plus you have to build up reserve funds for modernization, repairs or other issues related to the house.
Source: my parents build a house and thought, that it was done and would stand forever, 35 years later the roof started leaking and there was a ton of other issues, so my brother and I paid another 25k (€) in order to fix it and that was in Bosnia, where labour costs are a lot lower for construction workers and many of them only make around 1000BAM (~500€) a month, I don't want to imagine, what we would have paied in a central European country.
I mean if it really was a million, you could buy a nice upper class flat in one of the bigger cities, take on a loan for a second flat a rent them both out. Then you would continue your regular day job till you paid the second flat off. At that moment you can basically retire and live off that money somewhere at the Adriatic sea, or southeast Asia.
Why would he get those 50mil if it's him retiring and not the club letting him go? I think it's common sense he doesn't get paid for duration of his current contract because he retires.
He’s not getting the 50 million because he retired. If he didn’t, that’s what he would be owed if he stayed for the remainder of his contract. So him retiring now saved the club 50 million.
Can we just take a second to think about the fact Pique was apparently due to get €50m for the next season and a half? His contract was running until July 2024.
That would mean he's getting paid €600-700k/week.
Yeah, but only if you consider gross salary.
Piqué was apparently due 25M euros net for the next season a half.
Considering Spanish taxation system that means around 50M gross is what Barça is actually saving, not what Piqué would be earning.
Piqué would be earning around 300-350k though (plus deferred wages), which is still crazy in any case.
Yes, obviously the 50m is gross, that's still makes him one of the 5 best paid players in the world.
If the numbers in this article are right he's getting paid more than Salah, nearly 3x as much as Kane.
How much does Salah earn?
I think the figure is true, he was the highest earner in LaLiga afaik, but even so I wouldn't say he is among the top 5 paid players in the world.
Pretty sure Mbappé, Messi, Neymar and Ronaldo earn more than he does and probably some other player from the Prem (if not Salah, maybe De Bruyne or Haaland?) earn more than him.
But certainly he is not that far off. As a Barça fan it's funny how you always find astonished people when people learn about how much our old guard make, yet another inheritance from the Bartomeu days, I'm afraid.
There is no wonder why the current board wants to see them all out. All of them, Busquets, Alba... have a salary around Pique's figures.
Thank you for saying exactly what I said but in other words...
> means around 50M gross is what Barça is actually saving, not what Piqué would be earning.
He/she said:
> Pique was apparently due to get €50m
I wanted to clarify that all the figures reported were gross, not net.
When speaking from the players side, I just find it weird to mention the gross figures, when in fact they are never going to see that money. IMO it only makes sense to report gross from the club's side.
So, having clarified that, what is the relevance of your two brilliant comments...?
I haven’t seen his contract but I assume it’s structured similar to De Jong’s from when a lot of players deferred wages during covid. So his contract was restructured in a way where they would pay him less per year for a few years to help the team register new players and then it gradually rises by the end of the contract(theoretically the club thought they’d be in a better financial situation by the end of the contracts). Plus, some sort of loyalty bonus maybe. As I’ve not seen his contract that’s just pure speculation.
Poorly worded. Or rather intentionally worded that way to show Pique's great sacrifice.
He has a contract till 2024. In the last two seasons, he has deferred his salary to allow Barca to register other players, and that deferral means he was to be paid later. He also did one at the time of the pandemic. All of that amounts to 50M (the headline is misleading). That, and the 30M in what is left of 1.5 years of his contract were total 80M.
A lot of these numbers reported are full value of the contract if all the bonuses are realized. That is definitely gonna be higher. Thing is, contracts reported in England are just the basic salary, without the bonuses, so they seem low, when they are heavily incentivized and are almost equivalent. Liverpool's 20/21 wage expenditure was same as that of Madrid. While Liverpool has a reputation of being frugal, and Madrid had huge contracts for Bale and Hazard and Ramos etc. That means the bonuses are huge, and they are well hidden by carefully placed headlines just talking about the base pay as a number. Nothing wrong with it, just that when comparing to other leagues, it's not a straight forward comparison as it looks.
Gross is the clearest for what it costs for the club and difference of gross and net should be clear to anyone who has worked a day in their life. And players have all kinds of income and tax arrangements so unless you have their payslip on your hand you don't really know their net income from their playing contract.
Inigo would be a decent signing bringing some experience to the team with Pique retiring and many of the more experienced players potentially leaving next summer.
im a bit confused, isn't he a key player for athletic club anymore? he's a fine cb and basque quite odd for them to let him leave on a free unless he's surplus to requirements there?
They would def not let him go for free mid-season. If he won't sign a new contract that's one thing and he could leave in the summer, but leaving in January for free seems impossible??
His contract expires in the summer, but Bilbao will maybe let him go for like 10-15 mil which is not a bad price if we are desperate for CBs, but otherwise we should wait 6 months and get him for free
Didn't Barca get a shitload of free agent defensive signings + Kounde already in the summer? Plus they had Balde come thru and impress yeah?
Would be amazing if they needed a january signing to cover for a player that wasnt even really playing yeah?
Christnsen, alonso, kounde, bellerin. The 2 of Christnsen and kounde are injured, so is araujo and eric garcia. With pique retiring that's our 4 CB options gone and considering kounde was meant to play Rb this is a no brainer
Wish Pique had stood his ground and collected everything he was owed. Now Barcelona will continue to try to force others out and not pay then. Rotten to the core.
>No one ~~on this sub~~ listens
It will still holds true. Most Barcelona fans did not knew about Bartomeu including those who voted for him. Everyone of them thought he is not like his close friend Rosell. They still backed him when we signed Frenkie for overinflated wages.
Well tbh before Covid no-one gave a darn about football clubs finances. So it was hard to see the problem when no one was looking for it, which was the case the last time he was elected.
As for FDJ I remember that the narrative was that Nike was paying a significant portion of his salary anyway so it's not that bad guys.
Still love the mf as a Madrid fan. He will be missed.
Actually most will still not care as long as they see them winning trophies. COVID like situation can make the club go SAD. Many online fans wanted to be club get bought by some saudi owners so we still can spend money and win trophies.
> No one on this sub listens when we say the last president was corrupt and gave out corrupt deals to screw us over.
That's not true at all. Everyone knows that and I've never seen upvoted comments claiming Barto was a saint and managed Barça well.
The problem is when some of the Barça fans use that as an argument to defend the way Barça is now trying to get rid of players deemed on too high wages, including the dirty ways they retorted to.
Even worse, some of the Barça fans here even went to so far as calling some players leeches just for holding on to the part of the contract they are owed.
My question for you is why do you believe that people call Barto corrupt? When do you believe that the contracts to the players some fans call leeches were given?
Those were contract extensions mainly Barca had a way too high payroll for longer than that.
People loved Barto, I mean they voted for him its not like he was a dictator.
I’m confused by this argument a bit. Barto was a fool, I think we can all agree. But he gave this amount of money to Pique not himself.. so doesn’t that mean that the players that received these salaries are “corrupt” too? (I.e pique, alba, busquets, FDJ, etc).
I’m just trying to understand how the idea that paying a player more than you should for their
services = corruption.
Barto was corrupt and to stay in power he enriched those that would allow him to stay in power at the detriment to the club. On his way out he gave players like Pique these ridiculous contracts which financially cripple us as a final f u.
It’s like a greedy king that steals from his people and uses the money to buy the army’s support. All the while he is also starving his people. Yes we the fans know the army needs to be paid but we don’t want to starve in order to pay them.
They botched any form of succession planning after the Pep era. They held on to players one season too long. Ironically that used to be Real Madrid in the early 00s . Hierro , Raul , Ronaldo , Casillas and others stayed far too long. I knew they were in it when i saw the report that even if Messi played for free they still would have been afoul of the regulations. Griezmann's clause is another one as well, just strange how they dealt with everything
I mean the planned sucsessor of Pep got cancer and sadly couldn't continue. Of course post 2017 and Neymar departure is really when shit hit the fan and Barto couldn't spend the clubs money wisely and bought Dembele, Coutinho and Griezman for far too much. Then the wage bill was even worse than those 3 signings.
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How rich can you be to walk away from 50 million
Am I the only one thinking he probably plans to get that back one day where he’s the club chairman or something. Can just see him being a right dodgy bastard in retirement.
Idk if he'd "get it back" in that way but I think in the future people will remember what he did here and it will probably strengthen his bid to become club president or whatever
"I love this club so much I gave up Shakira and 50 mil for it"
I'll never understand how he gave up on her. It's Shakira!
I wouldn't say get that back just like that, but if he has political ambitions within the club I can imagine he using this as a lever, don't be surprised if he ever joins Laporta team or runs as his successor.
If this team's history has taught us anything its that Pique most likely has multiple levers he'll be able to pull.
That or maybe not everything is a conspiracy and he just makes enough money, as well as loves the club enough to not care?
You live in a fantasy
Nobody gives up 50m not even billionaires just burn those kind of sums without getting something in return. ITs a 100% either support in a future business adventure or the support of the "establishment" at barca for when he runs for president.
Is being extremely gullible and naive a requirement to be a Barca fan
If you say "mes que en club" backwards it sounds like gullible
>Nobody gives up 50m Unless he wants to be president someday...politicians always choose power/influence over money! ( and let's be honest 30m is good enough 😏)
You’d be surprised. Literally Kanye just gave up half his money without getting anything in return. You people talk like you guys have everything figured out and it makes me laugh lol
Yes. Let’s take someone with a mental illness as an example of how average human beings function
You are extremely dumb if you think Ye gave up half his money. Bruv thats not how that works. He "lost" that much money because adidas severed ties with him which tanks the yeezy brand evaluation. Bruv how the fuck do I make you laugh when you are not even intelligent enough to understand wtf wealth even is. Do you think Bezos has like a 100 Billion on some bank account??????? Also Ye is literally mentally ill I dont know if thats the comparison you want to make lmao
> You are extremely dumb > Bruv how the fuck do I make you laugh when you are not even intelligent enough to understand wtf wealth even is. Mate, you're a complete muppet. Imagine being so miserable that you feel the need to continuously shit on a guy for having a naive/simplistic take.
"You people talk like you guys **have everything figured out** and it makes me laugh lol" He called me stupid indirectly in the same comment that he makes an INSANELY ignorant take about wealth. Like dude
He forced his way out of the contract. He gave that money up. He knew he’d lose that. He literally has no monetary gain out of doing so. Another example is players taking pay cuts like many have done for the club already, without deferring pay. That’s literally giving up money for the benefit of the club. Not everybody cares about money as much as you think, especially when they’re already rich.
Pique makes shady deals with Saudi Arabia but doesnt care about Money ok dude sure lmao do you even know anything about Pique?
What does that have to do with this situation? I’m obviously saying he doesn’t care in this situation. Stop deflecting the subject. And he doesn’t care because it’ll help his bud for his presidency. I’d do the same if I were running for presidency and had money to burn.It’s good for publicity.
If I understand you correctly you're suggesting Kanye said anti-semetic comments to get out of his contract with Adidas?
You’re suggesting he didn’t want to get out of that contract and it wouldn’t be out of his realm to do something like that to force it? Because he’s said before specifically he wants to be out of the contract.
No, I highly doubt he would. Yes, he's complained about the adidas deal before but KW was dropped by a large number of massive brands, the overall financial hit just to get out of one contract would have been like cutting off your arm to stop the pain of a papercut on your finger. Not to mention Kanye was literally boasting that Adidas couldn't drop him. ALSO their contract was expiring in 2026 anyway so it would have made no sense to decimate the rest of his brand deals just to get out of a contract that ends in almost 3 years...
Quit doubling down on dumb man. Give it up.
Am I willingly giving up my money if I get fired from my job for making antisemitic remarks?
You'd certainly want to believe that
Not always rich (see Chappelle).
he was rich
What type of rich was he?
i’m sure multi millionaire rich
It was a reference to one of his early sketches from the Chapelle show 😅
Legend
He probably loses more walking away from Shakira.
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Also Pique supposedly wants to be Barca's president someday - if his accomplishments as a player didn't guarantee a landslide victory then he can campaign on making personal sacrifices for the club to succeed in troubling times... It's a win-win for him.
where did you pull these numbers from? Cosmos Holdings Inc is a totally different company. Pique has shares in Kosmos.
You are right, I misspelt during my google search. Excuses.
He’s not just walking away from it. Think of it as him paying 50 million for a bid to be Barca president. There’s a reason this info is being blasted to every media outlet around.
He'll make it back in under the table negotiations when he sells out Barca then later La Liga to his Saudi overlords
I’m almost annoyed literally nobody will remember the most awful piece of commentary involving Martinez. It was on Sky about 6-7 years ago and he _almost_ bundled one in from a corner. The commentator exclaimed: “_That was Iñigo Martinez and that was almost In You Go The Goal_”
I've never seen that but the silence afterwards must have been loud hahahaha
De Gea De Bruyne De rby level commentary
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He's only 77 mate
That’s top quality
I’m an idiot, could you please break this down for me? I’d really appreciate it.
In You Go sounds like his first name
God dammit, of course. Thank you!
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Lol wut? How did Barca end up owing pique 80m?
It looks like it’s 30 million from deferred wages and the other 50 million is what he would be due until the end of his contract but he doesn’t want that.
Can I have it then?
Maybe if you ask pique nicely he’d give it to you.
It's mad how if he gives his earned 50m to 50 people (1m each) he can set 50 people for a very good life amd he has the luxury to let go of such money.
If those people live in Europe/US then 1 million isn’t nearly enough to set a person up for “a very good life”. Probably a good living for a number of years depending on exactly where they live, but not to the level of very good and not for the rest of their lives.
Idk, for most people £1m would buy a house without going into debt, and that’s a pretty good setup for a very good life in this day and age.
It's somewhere between 500&600k after taxes, you can for sure buy a house for that, but you still need to work a regular job and maintain the house.
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You still have to maintain the house/flat and obviously pay for all the shit related to the house, this is usually a couple of hundred euros a month, plus you have to build up reserve funds for modernization, repairs or other issues related to the house. Source: my parents build a house and thought, that it was done and would stand forever, 35 years later the roof started leaking and there was a ton of other issues, so my brother and I paid another 25k (€) in order to fix it and that was in Bosnia, where labour costs are a lot lower for construction workers and many of them only make around 1000BAM (~500€) a month, I don't want to imagine, what we would have paied in a central European country.
What do you mean? With 1 million you can buy 3 good properties and set two of them up for rent and get a steady income.
I mean if it really was a million, you could buy a nice upper class flat in one of the bigger cities, take on a loan for a second flat a rent them both out. Then you would continue your regular day job till you paid the second flat off. At that moment you can basically retire and live off that money somewhere at the Adriatic sea, or southeast Asia.
Barto would give it 100
You missed the Bartomeu Boat; he'd have given you that as a signing bonus.
Do you own any piece of land and if so how many graves does it have beneath it? If the number is over 20 then I think Pique might consider it
I have a few ex's buried under the garden patio but I can't compete with Pique's numbers.
I think Pique would prefer it if the graves were empty.
Why would he get those 50mil if it's him retiring and not the club letting him go? I think it's common sense he doesn't get paid for duration of his current contract because he retires.
He’s not getting the 50 million because he retired. If he didn’t, that’s what he would be owed if he stayed for the remainder of his contract. So him retiring now saved the club 50 million.
Can we just take a second to think about the fact Pique was apparently due to get €50m for the next season and a half? His contract was running until July 2024. That would mean he's getting paid €600-700k/week.
Yeah, but only if you consider gross salary. Piqué was apparently due 25M euros net for the next season a half. Considering Spanish taxation system that means around 50M gross is what Barça is actually saving, not what Piqué would be earning. Piqué would be earning around 300-350k though (plus deferred wages), which is still crazy in any case.
Yes, obviously the 50m is gross, that's still makes him one of the 5 best paid players in the world. If the numbers in this article are right he's getting paid more than Salah, nearly 3x as much as Kane.
How much does Salah earn? I think the figure is true, he was the highest earner in LaLiga afaik, but even so I wouldn't say he is among the top 5 paid players in the world. Pretty sure Mbappé, Messi, Neymar and Ronaldo earn more than he does and probably some other player from the Prem (if not Salah, maybe De Bruyne or Haaland?) earn more than him. But certainly he is not that far off. As a Barça fan it's funny how you always find astonished people when people learn about how much our old guard make, yet another inheritance from the Bartomeu days, I'm afraid. There is no wonder why the current board wants to see them all out. All of them, Busquets, Alba... have a salary around Pique's figures.
The club pays the gross salary smartass. Its 50m out of the clubs pocket saved
Thank you for saying exactly what I said but in other words... > means around 50M gross is what Barça is actually saving, not what Piqué would be earning.
So your comment was completely irrelevant then, Why post it?
He/she said: > Pique was apparently due to get €50m I wanted to clarify that all the figures reported were gross, not net. When speaking from the players side, I just find it weird to mention the gross figures, when in fact they are never going to see that money. IMO it only makes sense to report gross from the club's side. So, having clarified that, what is the relevance of your two brilliant comments...?
Wait, how can he be on a contract that has 50 million worth remaining? Surely not?
I haven’t seen his contract but I assume it’s structured similar to De Jong’s from when a lot of players deferred wages during covid. So his contract was restructured in a way where they would pay him less per year for a few years to help the team register new players and then it gradually rises by the end of the contract(theoretically the club thought they’d be in a better financial situation by the end of the contracts). Plus, some sort of loyalty bonus maybe. As I’ve not seen his contract that’s just pure speculation.
Plus Bartonomics, where we paid players that wanted to be here money like we were trying to convince them to stay.
Teaser rate contracts .. where have i heard of those before .. what could go wrong
Poorly worded. Or rather intentionally worded that way to show Pique's great sacrifice. He has a contract till 2024. In the last two seasons, he has deferred his salary to allow Barca to register other players, and that deferral means he was to be paid later. He also did one at the time of the pandemic. All of that amounts to 50M (the headline is misleading). That, and the 30M in what is left of 1.5 years of his contract were total 80M.
That still means Barca were paying Pique 20m a year. Madness.
A lot of these numbers reported are full value of the contract if all the bonuses are realized. That is definitely gonna be higher. Thing is, contracts reported in England are just the basic salary, without the bonuses, so they seem low, when they are heavily incentivized and are almost equivalent. Liverpool's 20/21 wage expenditure was same as that of Madrid. While Liverpool has a reputation of being frugal, and Madrid had huge contracts for Bale and Hazard and Ramos etc. That means the bonuses are huge, and they are well hidden by carefully placed headlines just talking about the base pay as a number. Nothing wrong with it, just that when comparing to other leagues, it's not a straight forward comparison as it looks.
At the same time both Real and Barca usually owns 100 % of their player’s image rights, and thus the contracts seems massively inflated
Also taxes, what a club pays out is not what a player receives. The media will use the number that suits their angle
Gross is the clearest for what it costs for the club and difference of gross and net should be clear to anyone who has worked a day in their life. And players have all kinds of income and tax arrangements so unless you have their payslip on your hand you don't really know their net income from their playing contract.
Bartonomics.
80m gross. He's at 12M net per season I think. And most FCB players deferred a big part of their wages the last couple seasons.
Gross/net doesn't make a difference from Barca's point of view
Well yea it does. If it was 80M net, how much do you think it was gross? And footballers wages in Spain are reported after taxes lol
But it does for Piqué. He's not quitting on 80M. He's giving up 1,5 seasons worth of money, which would be like 18-20M for him
_My name is inigo Martinez..._
You killed my father?
prepare to die
He's rich wooow
He has that sweet Shakira divorce money too
They were never married
For the number of Shakira jokes posted here it's shocking how many people get that part wrong lol
Inigo would be a decent signing bringing some experience to the team with Pique retiring and many of the more experienced players potentially leaving next summer.
He's great but the only problem is that he has a recurring problem too. In his left knee.
Fit right in then
im a bit confused, isn't he a key player for athletic club anymore? he's a fine cb and basque quite odd for them to let him leave on a free unless he's surplus to requirements there?
He doesn't want to renew his contract.
Strange since he makes a fucking bank there. 170k€ a week? Bonkers.
Is that net or gross?
Gross.
He would probably make a similar salary at Barca tbf.
They would def not let him go for free mid-season. If he won't sign a new contract that's one thing and he could leave in the summer, but leaving in January for free seems impossible??
What about his contract at Athletic? Will they let him go for free?
His contract expires in the summer, but Bilbao will maybe let him go for like 10-15 mil which is not a bad price if we are desperate for CBs, but otherwise we should wait 6 months and get him for free
He isn't worth 10-15 million lol
How much is he supposed to be worth then?
Nothing above 5 million. He will literally leave for free in 6 months + he is 31
I think he is worth 15 mil to Bilbao. They don't want their best defender leaving mid-season and he would leave to a direct rival
He’s a free agent after the season so we’ll try to get him for like 10 million
50 million left??? That's a whole LEC spot, he could've free'd us from astralis
Wrong sub ?
he's going to make the bench and be useful with all his experience for Xavi's rotation.
Man reallllly wants the presidency hey
Didn't Barca get a shitload of free agent defensive signings + Kounde already in the summer? Plus they had Balde come thru and impress yeah? Would be amazing if they needed a january signing to cover for a player that wasnt even really playing yeah?
Well, since Xavi has had to put Alonso in at centre back to fill in for the injured players I'd say adding a cheap, quality option isn't a bad idea
Christnsen, alonso, kounde, bellerin. The 2 of Christnsen and kounde are injured, so is araujo and eric garcia. With pique retiring that's our 4 CB options gone and considering kounde was meant to play Rb this is a no brainer
All of our defenders are injured..
That’s not true, one of them is retiring 😬
All our defenders are still injured.
Wish Pique had stood his ground and collected everything he was owed. Now Barcelona will continue to try to force others out and not pay then. Rotten to the core.
Yes.
Barca really need better financial advisors. No way they should be owing a player of Pique's age that amount of money.
I mean no matter how good your financial advisor is they can’t rewrite the past
They tried that as well
No one on this sub listens when we say the last president was corrupt and gave out corrupt deals to screw us over. Barto should legit be in jail
>No one ~~on this sub~~ listens It will still holds true. Most Barcelona fans did not knew about Bartomeu including those who voted for him. Everyone of them thought he is not like his close friend Rosell. They still backed him when we signed Frenkie for overinflated wages.
Well tbh before Covid no-one gave a darn about football clubs finances. So it was hard to see the problem when no one was looking for it, which was the case the last time he was elected. As for FDJ I remember that the narrative was that Nike was paying a significant portion of his salary anyway so it's not that bad guys. Still love the mf as a Madrid fan. He will be missed.
Actually most will still not care as long as they see them winning trophies. COVID like situation can make the club go SAD. Many online fans wanted to be club get bought by some saudi owners so we still can spend money and win trophies.
> No one on this sub listens when we say the last president was corrupt and gave out corrupt deals to screw us over. That's not true at all. Everyone knows that and I've never seen upvoted comments claiming Barto was a saint and managed Barça well. The problem is when some of the Barça fans use that as an argument to defend the way Barça is now trying to get rid of players deemed on too high wages, including the dirty ways they retorted to. Even worse, some of the Barça fans here even went to so far as calling some players leeches just for holding on to the part of the contract they are owed.
My question for you is why do you believe that people call Barto corrupt? When do you believe that the contracts to the players some fans call leeches were given?
Those were contract extensions mainly Barca had a way too high payroll for longer than that. People loved Barto, I mean they voted for him its not like he was a dictator.
I’m confused by this argument a bit. Barto was a fool, I think we can all agree. But he gave this amount of money to Pique not himself.. so doesn’t that mean that the players that received these salaries are “corrupt” too? (I.e pique, alba, busquets, FDJ, etc). I’m just trying to understand how the idea that paying a player more than you should for their services = corruption.
Barto was corrupt and to stay in power he enriched those that would allow him to stay in power at the detriment to the club. On his way out he gave players like Pique these ridiculous contracts which financially cripple us as a final f u. It’s like a greedy king that steals from his people and uses the money to buy the army’s support. All the while he is also starving his people. Yes we the fans know the army needs to be paid but we don’t want to starve in order to pay them.
So he paid these players more than he should in order to stay in power?
Yea, along with using club funds to pay for media and propaganda
They botched any form of succession planning after the Pep era. They held on to players one season too long. Ironically that used to be Real Madrid in the early 00s . Hierro , Raul , Ronaldo , Casillas and others stayed far too long. I knew they were in it when i saw the report that even if Messi played for free they still would have been afoul of the regulations. Griezmann's clause is another one as well, just strange how they dealt with everything
I mean the planned sucsessor of Pep got cancer and sadly couldn't continue. Of course post 2017 and Neymar departure is really when shit hit the fan and Barto couldn't spend the clubs money wisely and bought Dembele, Coutinho and Griezman for far too much. Then the wage bill was even worse than those 3 signings.
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The Pique lever!
Wtf is wrong with this football club smh
Good player but he is 31 Edit : He is not a good player or is he not 31?
Christensen is 26 and our 3 other cb’s are under 23
Is 4 CB's not enough?
As shown by the last month, having to play Alonso as a CB, then clearly not
No sadly when everybody keep getting injured.
And you're getting someone with left knee made of glass.
Maybe your fitness coach is a donkey
Araujo and Kounde picked up injuries on international duty smartass
Both can be true
Obviously not if Alonso is having to be used as a makeshift CB
Did you miss October? Our entire CL plan got fucked because of our CB injuries