| Messi has officially left Barcelona 18:55 - Aug 5 with 3723 views | TractorCam |
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| Messi has officially left Barcelona on 20:50 - Aug 5 with 827 views | ElderGrizzly |
| Messi has officially left Barcelona on 19:27 - Aug 5 by WD19 |
Love how it is somehow the Spanish FA’s fault that Messi wants more money that Barcelona can currently afford. |
It’s because with both Madrid and Barca they’ve always turned a blind eye to their finances.
They’ve just started acting sensibly now. |  | | |
| Messi has officially left Barcelona on 21:04 - Aug 5 with 816 views | glasso |
| Messi has officially left Barcelona on 19:29 - Aug 5 by Marshalls_Mullet |
Probably not out of kilter with other people at the top of their industry.
NBA, Golf, Music, reality TV.
It is obscene, but commercially he earns it. |
I hate all this guff in football.
"Commercially he earns it."
You literally can't say that about a club that's catastrophically in debt. Someone who earns it is a bloke at work who brings in £100k to the business and gets paid £80k.
If you bring in £100k and get paid £500k just because they're scared to lose you, you don't commercially earn it at all. |  | | |
| Messi has officially left Barcelona on 21:27 - Aug 5 with 776 views | ElderGrizzly |
| Messi has officially left Barcelona on 21:04 - Aug 5 by glasso |
I hate all this guff in football.
"Commercially he earns it."
You literally can't say that about a club that's catastrophically in debt. Someone who earns it is a bloke at work who brings in £100k to the business and gets paid £80k.
If you bring in £100k and get paid £500k just because they're scared to lose you, you don't commercially earn it at all. |
In 2019-20 Barcelona’s salary bill was €671m.
They are €1.1billion in debt.
They should be in liquidation, not whinging that they can’t pay Messi £20m a year | | | |
| Messi has officially left Barcelona on 21:31 - Aug 5 with 767 views | C_HealyIsAPleasure |
| Messi has officially left Barcelona on 19:27 - Aug 5 by WD19 |
Love how it is somehow the Spanish FA’s fault that Messi wants more money that Barcelona can currently afford. |
It’s not that they can’t afford him per se (they are massively in debt but that’s never stopped them before and they recently took out a big loan to cover the hole in their finances), it’s because La Liga’s spending caps won’t allow them to register him unless they shed a number of players from the wage bill. So it is down to La Liga ultimately - although Barca’s fault that they’ve got themselves in a position where they can’t comply with the cap
It was fairly inevitable - Barca seemed to have just been hoping it would all go away but La Liga have stood firm
Messi is only the tip of the iceberg though - unless players leave or take a pay cut then they can’t register any of their new signings either… (Aguero, Depay etc…) |  |
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| Messi has officially left Barcelona on 21:44 - Aug 5 with 744 views | BarcaBlue |
| Messi has officially left Barcelona on 21:04 - Aug 5 by glasso |
I hate all this guff in football.
"Commercially he earns it."
You literally can't say that about a club that's catastrophically in debt. Someone who earns it is a bloke at work who brings in £100k to the business and gets paid £80k.
If you bring in £100k and get paid £500k just because they're scared to lose you, you don't commercially earn it at all. |
I doubt Messi's comercial value / salary is the main problem. It may be silly money but I would guess (and just a guess) whatever he is paid probably makes comercial sense.
It's other contracts handed out under the previous regime that make no sense and are now crippling. I'm talking about Pjanic, Umtiti, Coutinho amongst others. Players they can't move on, weren't really needed and aren't going to get similar deals elsewhere..
Not much detail has come out here yet but it wouldn't surprise me if it was Messi happy to leave, Barça happy not to offer a long term contract and he finishes up in Argentina playing out his days. |  | | |
| Messi has officially left Barcelona on 22:02 - Aug 5 with 718 views | Marshalls_Mullet |
| Messi has officially left Barcelona on 21:04 - Aug 5 by glasso |
I hate all this guff in football.
"Commercially he earns it."
You literally can't say that about a club that's catastrophically in debt. Someone who earns it is a bloke at work who brings in £100k to the business and gets paid £80k.
If you bring in £100k and get paid £500k just because they're scared to lose you, you don't commercially earn it at all. |
Don't be daft, Messi has been worth billions to Barca over the past 2 decades. |  |
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| Messi has officially left Barcelona on 22:33 - Aug 5 with 689 views | Marshalls_Mullet |
| Messi has officially left Barcelona on 21:04 - Aug 5 by glasso |
I hate all this guff in football.
"Commercially he earns it."
You literally can't say that about a club that's catastrophically in debt. Someone who earns it is a bloke at work who brings in £100k to the business and gets paid £80k.
If you bring in £100k and get paid £500k just because they're scared to lose you, you don't commercially earn it at all. |
https://everythingbarca.com/2021/02/05/lionel-messi-generates-barcelona/ | |
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| Messi has officially left Barcelona on 23:20 - Aug 5 with 668 views | floridablue |
I could see him ending his days here in Miami Florida , just as Kaka did a couple of years back, only he joined Orlando. | | | |
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| Messi has officially left Barcelona on 07:59 - Aug 6 with 602 views | glasso |
This is like the argument about the Royal Family bringing in £xx to the UK, though. There are a lot of leaps to get to this point.
For instance, I've no doubt whatsoever that Messi's shirt sales far exceed everybody else's. But you have to be able to say how many of those people would buy a Messi shirt or nothing.
See, I'm not a 'player's name on the back of the shirt' kind of guy, but let's say that I am... for the past five years I always had Chambers on the back of my shirt because he's the captain and my favourite player. Will I now never buy an Ipswich shirt again? Or do I just switch it up this year and buy the new shirt with my NEW favourite player?
There's a big difference between someone bringing in fresh business, and someone dominating the business you already have. I've no doubt Messi does both, but it's impossible to say to what extent until this season when we finally get to see how much shirt sales, attendances etc drop off now he's gone. | | | |
| Messi has officially left Barcelona on 08:24 - Aug 6 with 576 views | TractorCam |
| Messi has officially left Barcelona on 23:20 - Aug 5 by floridablue |
I could see him ending his days here in Miami Florida , just as Kaka did a couple of years back, only he joined Orlando. |
Blimey he's only just turned 34! No chance he goes anywhere like that for a good few years anyway. | |
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| Messi has officially left Barcelona on 09:56 - Aug 6 with 548 views | bournemouthblue |
| Messi has officially left Barcelona on 19:18 - Aug 5 by wkj |
America would be the right choice. Start working on his life after football profile by rubbing shoulders with the movers and shakers. That would be my guess. |
The MLS would have a fair shout, alongside the Chinese League I guess?
Does Christiano want to leave Juve as well? |  |
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| Messi has officially left Barcelona on 10:49 - Aug 6 with 535 views | BarcaBlue |
| Messi has officially left Barcelona on 07:59 - Aug 6 by glasso |
This is like the argument about the Royal Family bringing in £xx to the UK, though. There are a lot of leaps to get to this point.
For instance, I've no doubt whatsoever that Messi's shirt sales far exceed everybody else's. But you have to be able to say how many of those people would buy a Messi shirt or nothing.
See, I'm not a 'player's name on the back of the shirt' kind of guy, but let's say that I am... for the past five years I always had Chambers on the back of my shirt because he's the captain and my favourite player. Will I now never buy an Ipswich shirt again? Or do I just switch it up this year and buy the new shirt with my NEW favourite player?
There's a big difference between someone bringing in fresh business, and someone dominating the business you already have. I've no doubt Messi does both, but it's impossible to say to what extent until this season when we finally get to see how much shirt sales, attendances etc drop off now he's gone. |
Shirt sales are small fry compared to the sponsorship, other merch, titles won, Summer tours etc etc etc. Messi's contribution to the Barça coffers goes far beyond the sale of shirts. | | | |
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