Popular Post HanoiVillan Posted August 8, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted August 8, 2022 Their financial chicanery not going well so far it seems (re the first tweet, COPE is a Spanish media outlet): 1 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 Meanwhile, they're talking about bringing Messi back for a year or two They deserve to disappear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Steve Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 Omg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 Every day a new low. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post villa4europe Posted August 8, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted August 8, 2022 3 minutes ago, HanoiVillan said: Every day a new low. For some reason they're all over my Facebook trying to turn the court of public opinion of Braithwaite and how he's got a club in Saudi Arabia lined up who will pay him more than barca but he still wants to get sacked on purpose to get his money 4 or 5 barca message boards are somehow popping up on my feed with that kind of shit, how he's doing the club dirty They can **** right off 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoelVilla Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 2 minutes ago, villa4europe said: For some reason they're all over my Facebook trying to turn the court of public opinion of Braithwaite and how he's got a club in Saudi Arabia lined up who will pay him more than barca but he still wants to get sacked on purpose to get his money 4 or 5 barca message boards are somehow popping up on my feed with that kind of shit, how he's doing the club dirty They can **** right off Noticed the same yesterday. At least they got most shit in the comments I read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 I stayed away from the comments thinking that if I opened them it would just give me more, I could see the number of laughing responses though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 Barca have their own Hasbara of faithful and blind believers. It's like a cult. Just drink the cool aid and be done with it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 2 minutes ago, sne said: Barca have their own Hasbara of faithful and blind believers. It's like a cult. Just drink the cool aid and be done with it. Yeah and I'd be interested to see how many of them are catalans From the few comments I have seen in various places it seems like old school fans aren't too happy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 De Jong doesnt have a real contract and apparently plan on sacking Umtiti and Braithwaite at end of the window if dont find a club The lawyers are going to love this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 Lewandowski, Kessie, Christensen, Dembele, Raphinha, Kounde and Sergi Roberto are still unregistered 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 They did a great job convincing the world they have no money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutByEaster? Posted August 8, 2022 Moderator Share Posted August 8, 2022 1 hour ago, Genie said: They did a great job convincing the world they have no money. They did a better job of convincing themselves that they do. What they've got now is debt - and they've mortgaged their future income for it. It's a disaster waiting to happen and a club hoping they are too big to be allowed to fail. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mic09 Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 3 hours ago, sne said: Barca have their own Hasbara of faithful and blind believers. It's like a cult. I always said they were the Spanish Liverpool. Liverpool seem well run now though. But it's a cult. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 8 minutes ago, OutByEaster? said: They did a better job of convincing themselves that they do. What they've got now is debt - and they've mortgaged their future income for it. It's a disaster waiting to happen and a club hoping they are too big to be allowed to fail. A lot of clubs seem to be doing that selling of future TV rights thing, even clubs like Villa and Newcastle who appear to have plenty of money. It seems more like a FFP hack than a desperate grab of cash. Not denying Barcelona are in a shot load of debt though. Spurs have about €800m of debt, Juve €900m, United over €400m. Barcelona do seem to be being run appallingly though. If they have about €1.3b of debt and they can’t pay can they be sold off to new rich owners? Chelsea was sold for over £4b recently, so debt of about a quarter of that isn’t so obscene. The problem is FFP with them and the local La Liga rules. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 If Barca do feel strongly that these contracts to de Jong, Braitwaite, Pique, ter Stegen, Lenglet and so on that Bartomeu signed before he left are indeed illegal and not valid then I'm sure they are more than willing to forfeit any and every point the won while these players were on the pitch? No? OK, thought not. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 4 minutes ago, Genie said: A lot of clubs seem to be doing that selling of future TV rights thing, even clubs like Villa and Newcastle who appear to have plenty of money. It seems more like a FFP hack than a desperate grab of cash. Not denying Barcelona are in a shot load of debt though. Spurs have about €800m of debt, Juve €900m, United over €400m. Barcelona do seem to be being run appallingly though. If they have about €1.3b of debt and they can’t pay can they be sold off to new rich owners? Chelsea was sold for over £4b recently, so debt of about a quarter of that isn’t so obscene. The problem is FFP with them and the local La Liga rules. Barca are a members owned club. They can't be sold. I guess they are already owned by the banks but selling the club for real is not really an option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 6 minutes ago, Genie said: A lot of clubs seem to be doing that selling of future TV rights thing, even clubs like Villa and Newcastle who appear to have plenty of money. It seems more like a FFP hack than a desperate grab of cash. Not denying Barcelona are in a shot load of debt though. Spurs have about €800m of debt, Juve €900m, United over €400m. Barcelona do seem to be being run appallingly though. If they have about €1.3b of debt and they can’t pay can they be sold off to new rich owners? Chelsea was sold for over £4b recently, so debt of about a quarter of that isn’t so obscene. The problem is FFP with them and the local La Liga rules. I don't know how much of it we've done, but one way or another it's a bad idea. You cannot be sure of - in our case, cannot even be confident of - higher relative TV receipts in the future, so this is bad debt against the main source of income. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 57 minutes ago, sne said: If Barca do feel strongly that these contracts to de Jong, Braitwaite, Pique, ter Stegen, Lenglet and so on that Bartomeu signed before he left are indeed illegal and not valid then I'm sure they are more than willing to forfeit any and every point the won while these players were on the pitch? No? OK, thought not. If the contracts are illegal then does that mean deJong and co are available as free transfers? Its amazing that players still go there despite the ridiculous management. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 1 minute ago, Genie said: If the contracts are illegal then does that mean deJong and co are available as free transfers? Its amazing that players still go there despite the ridiculous management. They've put in system to hand out enormous inflated contracts that they have no intention of fulfilling. They're also writing them in the NHL way that meaning they are long and with the salaries increasing over time so that the last years are the most expensive ones. By that time they expect/demand that the players take pay cuts or move to new clubs so they won't have to pay them the full amount. Quite strange that the players association are not coming down harder on them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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