Xaviho šokujúce odhalenie o neúspešnom návrate Messiho: Laporta všetko zrušil

Uz ma nebavi sa k tomuto stale vraciat. V prvom rade to bol Bartomeu, ktory rozdaval najstedrejsie platy. Za dalsie to bol Messi, ktory Barcelonu natahoval s podpisom zmluvy kym bol na nejakom turnaji s Argentinou. Situacia sa tahala, az kym Messimu vyprsala zmluva. Pritom podla medii ho Barcelona oslovila skor, dokonca aj rok predtym. Nehovorim, ze je to zrovna Messiho chyba. Ma na to agentov a ludi, ktori to mali vediet. Ale rozhodne to nie je chyba Barcelony, ktora podla mojho nazoru spravila aj dobre, ze to vtedy uz vzdala. Nerad to hovorim, pretoze milujem Messiho a nikdy uz neuvidim lepsieho hraca, ale Barcelonu to posunulo vpred. Dovtedy sme boli zavisly na jednom hracovi. V kazdom utoku a pri kazdom gole mal Messi svoj podpis. Je len zazrak, ze za karieru zazil tak malo zraneni. Odvtedy sme velmi omladili kader, ktory je este viac samostatny ako za ery Messiho.

A k teme jedna poucka z Redditu:
Starting from the 2013-2014 season, Spanish teams have had a salary cap of 70% of their revenue from the previous campaign. This is generally enforced by limiting the registration of new players unless this criteria is met. Meanwhile, Barcelona started offering massive contracts to their players, led in part by Messi but also including their entire squad, to the point where for instance, Samuel Umtiti who is a pretty unremarkable defender for elite team standards, would be the highest-paid such player in the English Premier League.

This all came to a head with Covid, as Barcelona’s revenue dropped (As did everybody’s) and pushed the salary bill to 110% of revenue. This meant that to register new players they had to offload hundreds of millions of euros from the wage bill. They tried to do this by offloading players (which proved next to impossible as nobody else would offer them similar salaries), asking players to accept wage cuts and so on. In the midst of that, Messi’s contract expired and instead of being a renewal, started counting as a new signing which meant he couldn’t be registered, so here we are.

Incidentally even without Messi their wage bill is 95% of revenue so they still can’t register new signings such as Memphis or Agüero