He was the shining new toy after Messi, got the 10. The hope was he'll be the new franchise player, especially after the dark Messi summer. What do you expect Barca should have offered him if €6m net is too much? 3m? Then he would have left immediately and the same people would have insulted the club for letting our LaMasia prospects leave for free. It's always easy to point fingers afterwards.
The salary isn't a problem for barca anymore, we're in the area of €400-450m in salary (reduced from 750m under Bartomeu, that's nearly half!), which is totally fine for a big club, even modest today I'd say and when the last Barto contracts run out with Frenkie and Lenglet, it'll get even better. The problem is we're missing €100m+ because if the stadium right now and our debts from Bartomeu.
He had barely played in a year and had not proven fitness.
Moronic to give him that contract under those circumstances. He signed contract in October 21 and had started something like 3 or 4 games since the previous October.. then promptly started missung games again not even a week after contract signed.
Contract he is on is one would expect likes of Yamal to be on at 18 when one of best players in world in his position.. not Fati who had been out for a year and was not Yamal level.
Being scared of other teams taking him is no reason to shell out that contract in that circumstances and taking the risk. Let him prove fitness for longer and reality is he most likely still takes that inflated contract at a later date.
The club currently would sell him in instant.. the reason they loan him as didnt want him in squad last season and no one is buying him.
They budgeted for the stadium.. albeit they have managed to attract less fans than expected.
The biggest money loss has been the European failures costing the club probably north of 150m and then also the huge contracts to players that will get nothing from at end as in mid 30s.
