Barcelona have taken a major step towards bringing back the greatest player in their history, after their viability plan was approved by La Liga and President Javier Tebas.
The Blaugrana are well over their salary limit currently, with talk of between €200-250m needed to be raised in funds, or saved in expenses for the coming season in order to sign players without further restrictions.
In any attempt to sign Lionel Messi on a free from Paris Saint-Germain, they needed the approval of their viability plan from La Liga in order to forge ahead. Without it, there would be no guarantee they could register Messi, or the likes of Ronald Araujo, Gavi or Marcos Alonso.
Onze say that Barcelona now have the green light on that plan. It involves a minimum of €100m in player sales in order to make a deal happen, which will be a tough task without selling players that they want to hold onto. It does however bring about the possibility of his return.
If Barcelona can pull off a deal for Lionel Messi, it would send shockwaves through the club. Something which is likely to shake a few loose fittings loose, particularly with the financial effort required. Not least those that will be candidates for a sale in order to raise that €100m required.
It would also be a major sentimental coup for President Joan Laporta, who as it stands will go down as the president who lost Lionel Messi, even if much of the groundwork was laid by Josep Maria Bartomeu.
Ahahah so they will sell young assets they actually dont want to sell to accomondate a player who is past his prime?
Brilliant!
Now that cat is out of bag that they must sell, teams should skin them alive in negotiations.
Such a wonderful time to be a bribELona fan. Seeing the club disintegrate economically and going even further down in quagmire to bring back the king of CL mopefaces whose salary will probably finish them off. At least we will be treated to more post CL meltdown poutfaces on that HGH-disfigured face.
You can’t be any more racist, you piece of trash.
I just love 2 waste your time with crtl v, useless mong subhuman racist.
Messi wouldn’t cost Barca a dime in transfer fees and would accept a huge discount in salary to come to Barca. The salaries that are costing Barca the most are those of Busquets and Alba, and Messi’s salary would be nowhere near what even one of those players would make next season. Barca need to sell players to bring in new signings, that is correct, but so do many other clubs. Contrary to your position on the subject however, the wage bill is the problem, and the players Barca are looking to sell are not their most promising young talents. Reducing the wage bill will instead allow them to KEEP those young talents in the fold, while also allowing for funds to be allocated to positions of need. Is money tight? Absolutely, but you’re wrong about why, and what the club are doing about it.
“Messi wouldn’t cost Barca a dime in transfer fees and would accept a huge discount in salary to come to Barca”
Source?
Rest of your rant is moot.
PSG are releasing him from his contract, which you know. That means he leaves on a free, which, as you also know, costs the club he signs with nothing in transfer fees. It has also been reported that he would accept a salary in the 12 million range, which is approximately one third of what Jordi Alba is slated to make next year. This is, of course, believable since he offered to play for free in order to stay, which La Liga wouldn’t allow. I’m not at all surprised that you consider the rest of my “rant” to be moot, because I’m right, you know it, and you have no viable argument to counter the facts that I presented.
You apparently dont know what source means. I dont blame you, youre a bribELona fan, and as proven by this forum, you people arent the brightest bunch.
Several media have already reported him going to Arabia, Google it. Its a done deal. Plenty of articles out about it.
As you already know, he himself mentioned a thinly veiled allegory: “So much green here”.
What do you think he meant by that?
Rest of your rant is therefore moot.
Problem is that you dont follow news and try to imagine things instead which I have to admit, is worthy of a laughing.
Busquets took a salary cut & multiple deferrals previously, and if he had chosen to stay would have taken another massive salary cut. It’s only Alba who would be on a huge wage bill next season b/c of deferrals and Busquets won’t even be around. Also, are you under the impression that Frenkie de Jong, for example, is on a low salary? He’s one of the highest earners & did not accept a paycut (a deferral during the pandemic, yes). Dembele’s salary isn’t anything to sneeze at either, especially considering both of these guys were signed under Bartomeu and unlike Busquets or Messi, have NO prior contributions to the club that justifies high salaries. You know, it’s great that you’re defending Messi from that guy’s bullshit, but I don’t know what’s going on with the fans of this club. They either shit all over every one of their greatest players, or they can see through BS when it comes to Messi but then can’t wait to place the blame on other legends. It’s particularly grating when they blame Busquets. First he’s literally leaving and second he’s no Alba. Busquets’ status in the club and in football is closer to Messi’s, Xavi’s, & Iniesta’s–he literally changed how people see defensive midfielders–but Barça fans act like he’s a blight on their club and put him on Alba or Rakitic’s level ffs, just like you’re doing now. It’s embarrassing, and I hope Messi doesn’t go back so he won’t have to deal with fans like that other guy or fans like you taking every opportunity you can get to blame his friends for all the club’s ills & prop up your “promising young talents.”
If you think the gnome is coming back to a team that paid I3 ventures 1 million to slander him – and he will happily accept 1/3 of salary out of love, youre insane.
He sucked the club dry for money and this is his last chance to bring home the big contract before he retires. He likes his money and thats not going to change. His gfs fat a.s is hungry for expensive jewelry, luxurious lifestyle and thats not going to change.
Also…Would you rather make 15 mil or 30 mil?
Rhetorical question, you dont need to answer.
I’ve not said one negative word about Busquets, merely that offloading his salary would help the club. Not a recommendation, just stating a fact considering he’s stepping away. Busquets is an icon and I would never disparage him, ever. You are correct when you say that he has taken cuts and deferrals; I believe his salary this year was in the 23 million range. Dembele is actually on a newer, short term deal, not the Barto contract. If you’ll remember, his agent asked for the moon and Alemany called his bluff; the compromise was less money with a shorter contract and a declining release clause. Frenkie is a high earner, but he’s young talent that Xavi is adamant about keeping, which was the essence of my rebuttal to the Madrid troll. The only young talent that’s rumored to be on the market is Ansu, but there are other factors in play there (as you probably know). I honestly don’t care if Messi comes or not, but the claim that Barca are selling young, talented players in order to bring him back is just plain false, and that was my point.
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Messi deserves where he is the Happiest.. He will play for the same salary as Lewa bit will bring massive revenue through other channels..Moreover I wanna c Messi compete for UCL from barca , the same barca that struggled twice to qualify after his departure..
I said he “would”, not “he will”. Big difference, and I was reporting exactly what I read he would accept if he came back to Barca. Never did I say he was coming back for certain, because I don’t know any more than you do whether he is. I do read, and I also read (which you conveniently left out) where Messi’s father (who is also his agent) rubbished the claims that anything was agreed with anyone. Also, if you read the way you claim to, you would know that the “so much green here” quote was Messi commenting on how surprised he was that Saudi Arabia was as green as it is, since the common narrative is that the country is all desert. Respond if you want to, but I’m done picking your bones. You’re done here, and there’s nothing left.
“I said he “would”, not “he will”.”
Stop squirming around with semantics, its pathetic.
You were caught talking out of your a.s and at least accept it like a man.
Rest of your rant, is as always, moot.
Also, what you and the rest of gnome nutt.huggerz refuse to realize is that if he really loves bribELona so much he wouldnt have left the club in the first place.
He would mutually have terminated the contract and re-signed at lower salary.
But as its pretty evidential and obvious to anyone with more than 3 braincells he 1. Is moneydriven (and nothing has changed) 2. Didnt belive in bribELona project (and nothing has changed, except theyre now EL dwellers).
Implying that he magically would now accept lesser salary is tragicomical, at best.
true, excellent point
It’s not semantics, but I’m not surprised that you went there because you’re getting schooled.
Take it like a man. If you are one, that is.