Intense days ahead at the Camp Nou and Ciutat Esportiva offices. In Barcelona, they need to reduce the list of players as they have more than 25 players who can register as professional cards and, above all, they must significantly reduce the salary block. In the first place, because it is well above what the new La Liga standards require as coverage and should cut it by about 200 million.
And in terms of salaries, given the expectations of a significant reduction in the salary block, we must include what Lido Steinua receives. One of the points that makes this renewal difficult – Leo’s contract expired on June 30 – is that his continuity is linked to compliance with “fair play” in La Liga, and according to FC Barcelona sources, he deserves all the credit, we are almost at the same point as weeks ago.
In this sense, to reverse the situation, it is necessary for Barcelona to go through three different paths. First of all, the club should intensify the departure of footballers who are not loved by Ronald Koeman for the logical foot. Among others, the case of Samuel Umtiti, Miralem Pjanic, Philippe Coutinho, Carles Alena, Moussa Waghi and Junior Firpo, who have already closed an agreement with Leeds worth 15 million euros.
In this case there is also Martin Braithwaite but his good performance with Denmark in the Euro raises the price. All this, without excluding that other players such as Neto Morara, Clement Lenglet and Sergei Russuyuto finish off Asuyoto, Nergiyasasou and Yenn. If all these exits occur, there will be income and savings on spending. ?
Two more ways
But not all movements can be in the form of loans, player sales and freedom cards to reduce spending on salaries. There is a second method that the club adheres to, which is not easy but seems mandatory: lowering the salaries of loyal players. This is the case, for example, of Sergi Roberto, Gerard Piqué, Jordi Alba, Sergil Al-Masal without forgetting Ousmane Dembélé, whose contract the club wants to renew.
In the club they express it, in a moment of maximum tension to be able to adapt to the standards of the euro. eruptions. Are those who earned so much when there were sacred cows the ones who must do their part and wither?
In this sense, one of the players who has already spoken with the club, and specifically with President Laporta, is Gerard Piqué, who has shown understanding of the club’s requests, although his status has not yet been determined.
The third way in which the club must be able to reduce the tension in the salary crisis, as the Camp Nou insists, is for the League to lend a hand to the clubs and not restrict itself in the level of fixing salaries.
Although Javier Tebas, president of the Spanish Football Federation, has already said in private and in public that he cannot exclude FC Barcelona “or dictate special rules on the Messi case”, FC Barcelona trusts that he will change it.
In this sense, Thebes is not expected to do Barcelona a favor, which can provoke its direct competitors by feeling victims, but will decide to reduce the pressure on the clubs given that the epidemic has reduced everyone’s income, but above all. Affected adults, who most trust tickets, promotions or visits to their facilities.
The League is expected to agree to this. Otherwise, the problem will be much more difficult, unless there is a significant transfer or the signing of a business agreement.