Popular Post fightoffyour Posted December 28, 2021 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted December 28, 2021 17 minutes ago, Zatman said: Makes sense they are bad at maths as I didn't know a 21 year old counts as a Teen Twentyoneteen 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted December 30, 2021 Author Share Posted December 30, 2021 No issues with them spending copious amounts of money they don't have thou while their debt keeps skyrocketing. Apparently they won't need to start paying the Torres fee until 2023 according to the gossip. Quote Barcelona are not yet on track to register new signing Ferran Torres to their La Liga squad. Torres was signed from Manchester City earlier this week, with Xavi Hernandez landing his January target. But that doesn’t mean the Spain international can walk straight into the Barca starting XI. As fans will remember from the summer and the whole Lionel Messi saga, Barca are still wrestling with a financial crisis. As part of that, they need to find a way to reduce their salary mass to comply with their drastically reduced La Liga salary cap. Barca‘s cap was reduced more than any other team’s this season due to a big fall in their revenue over the course of the pandemic. Despite offloading Messi and Antoine Griezmann in the summer, Barca remain over their current cap, and as such, they can only spend 25% of all outgoings. Now, this is strictly a salary cap, which only takes into account salaries and image rights, while the transfer fee itself can be filed under a sporting cost. If a club over its salary cap signs a player with a salary worth more than 25% of any outgoings, they simply cannot be registered to the squad. And that is the case with Torres, who will not be registered at the opening of the next squad registration window, on January 3, as things stand. Barca did manage to make a number of savings in the summer, with the aforementioned departures of Griezmann and Messi, while a number of senior players also took pay cuts. But those moves paid for the registration of their summer signings, as well as the bumper new contracts for Ansu Fati and Pedri. Barca now need to make further savings in order to register Torres, as well as Dani Alves, though registering the Brazilian isn’t expected to be much of a problem due to his low wage. https://www.football-espana.net/2021/12/30/barcelona-register-ferran-torres-salary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 Toronto are favourites to sign insigne That seems like madness Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OhioVilla Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 On 27/12/2021 at 10:22, sne said: Looks like Wolfsburg are winning the race for Ricardo Pepi. Don't follow the MLS but he's supposed to be the next big US prospect. Good business for them, I believe he'll make his way to a big club in no time. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BleedClaretAndBlue Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 Dembele looking like going to Juve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MachoFantastico Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 At this rate Celtic will be entirely made of just Japanese players. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaVilla Posted January 1, 2022 Share Posted January 1, 2022 9 hours ago, MachoFantastico said: At this rate Celtic will be entirely made of just Japanese players. if they are good enough for the Scottish PL, then its sound merchandising tbh....... Sure someone said after Celtic bought a Japanese player last year, they sold more merch in japan than the entire of what they sold in Scotland.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Steve Posted January 1, 2022 Share Posted January 1, 2022 On 30/12/2021 at 15:43, sne said: No issues with them spending copious amounts of money they don't have thou while their debt keeps skyrocketing. Apparently they won't need to start paying the Torres fee until 2023 according to the gossip. https://www.football-espana.net/2021/12/30/barcelona-register-ferran-torres-salary Just a totally normal thing for football. A total farce. They are terrified of Barcelona doing the super league again. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacketspuds Posted January 1, 2022 Share Posted January 1, 2022 Apparently Xavi’s top target for this window is Matthijs de Ligt. It’s almost as if Barcelona can just do what they want and make the rules up as they go along. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leighavfc Posted January 1, 2022 Share Posted January 1, 2022 Mykolenko to Everton undisclosed fee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted January 1, 2022 Author Share Posted January 1, 2022 So it appears the usual suspects are trying to do a bit of debt shuffling and FFP management by moving Morata to Barca so that Juve don't have to pay Atletico the obligatory fee they owe them and instead that money is reset against the money from the Griezmann transfer. Bold move since Juve are already under investigation for the Arthur-Pjanic deal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted January 1, 2022 Share Posted January 1, 2022 1 hour ago, leighavfc said: Mykolenko to Everton undisclosed fee Undisclosed but meant to be around £17m, he's good on FM but that's all I really know of him Maybe an interesting signing given our search for a LB too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted January 1, 2022 Author Share Posted January 1, 2022 Guess that means Digne is off to Chelsea 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted January 1, 2022 Share Posted January 1, 2022 I dont get the Digne transfer rumours. Not good enough for Everton but is for bigger teams Chelsea might be good for him tactically as defending is his weakness but probably not better than Alonso 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted January 1, 2022 Author Share Posted January 1, 2022 4 minutes ago, Zatman said: I dont get the Digne transfer rumours. Not good enough for Everton but is for bigger teams Chelsea might be good for him tactically as defending is his weakness but probably not better than Alonso Think it would be a loan (or low fee transfer) to cover for the Chilwell injury if they can't get their long term targets like Theo Hernandez in January Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leighavfc Posted January 1, 2022 Share Posted January 1, 2022 4 hours ago, villa4europe said: Undisclosed but meant to be around £17m, he's good on FM but that's all I really know of him Maybe an interesting signing given our search for a LB too Yeah he looked decent at the euros, interesting signing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted January 1, 2022 Share Posted January 1, 2022 (edited) On 30/12/2021 at 15:43, sne said: No issues with them spending copious amounts of money they don't have thou while their debt keeps skyrocketing. Apparently they won't need to start paying the Torres fee until 2023 according to the gossip. https://www.football-espana.net/2021/12/30/barcelona-register-ferran-torres-salary If I were a senior player at Barcelona and agreed to take a pay cut, only for the club to spend 50 odd million on a player BEFORE the transfer window opens who will be getting paid even though not registered… I’d be pissed off. Obviously, the transfer stinks. But as 1 question, why didn’t they wait till Jan 1st to save a few weeks wages? Edited January 1, 2022 by Genie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_eristic Posted January 3, 2022 Share Posted January 3, 2022 On 28/12/2021 at 03:25, sne said: Rafinha has gone on loan to Real Sociedad for the season so the gossips will have to find some new players to link us with. Sad, he's one I would've liked to see here, BUT....... does that mean we can finally loan Januzaj? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Steve Posted January 3, 2022 Share Posted January 3, 2022 Isak linked to Arsenal as everyone else pretends that it's totally normal for Barca to keep in the transfer market. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MachoFantastico Posted January 3, 2022 Share Posted January 3, 2022 Watching the Barca game last night and even the commentators were somewhat puzzled by Joan Laporta's comments regarding Barcelona's transfer dealings. The fact that the club as to sell more players to even allow Torres to play speaks volumes. They argued that a lot of this big talk is just a front to show strength to Barca fans and I agree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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