serghei
Senior Member
It will work out eventually I think, but on short term. But there will come a time when players will have to understand that Barcelona won't be able to pay the best salaries in world football for long. Not with oil-funded privately-owned-by-sheiks teams around, that can absorb a loss of 100m euros for example like it's nothing. Our budget is stretched as it is. It will come a time when we will have to say even to players like Messi, Suarez etc. "that's it guys, that's the end of the line for us. Can't pay you with more than that, without risking our financial status".
Then we will see who really loves the club above money. I mean, what the hell is the difference between 14m. a year say, and 18-20m. a year? If the club has money and doesn't pay you more, that could be interpreted as a sign that said club does not value you enough. Fair enough. But if the club does not have those money in the first place, then it's absurd to claim you are not valued. Football clubs, most of them anyway, don't have unlimited resources.
God knows I'm not a Masia fanatic on this forum, but we need to fix our academy fast, because what is based on skill is always more valuable and sustainable than what it is bought with something as volatile as money. Signing stars, highly payed players for every position is a very very very dangerous strategy.
Someone comes to Busquets and Iniesta in their prime and gives them double the money to leave Barca, I'm fairly confident they won't do it. But with Neymar for example, I'm not that sure.
It's one of the reasons I support signings like Arda. Turan seems to have an emotional connection with the club that goes beyond the figures printed on the contract. That's exactly the profile of player we should be after.
Then we will see who really loves the club above money. I mean, what the hell is the difference between 14m. a year say, and 18-20m. a year? If the club has money and doesn't pay you more, that could be interpreted as a sign that said club does not value you enough. Fair enough. But if the club does not have those money in the first place, then it's absurd to claim you are not valued. Football clubs, most of them anyway, don't have unlimited resources.
God knows I'm not a Masia fanatic on this forum, but we need to fix our academy fast, because what is based on skill is always more valuable and sustainable than what it is bought with something as volatile as money. Signing stars, highly payed players for every position is a very very very dangerous strategy.
Someone comes to Busquets and Iniesta in their prime and gives them double the money to leave Barca, I'm fairly confident they won't do it. But with Neymar for example, I'm not that sure.
It's one of the reasons I support signings like Arda. Turan seems to have an emotional connection with the club that goes beyond the figures printed on the contract. That's exactly the profile of player we should be after.
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