Fair point. As I said in another thread (maybe Christensen?), there is no way LaLiga can expect the clubs to move with the salary cap fluctuations we are seeing. Look at Barcelona's right now at 640+m, but only that high because of the levers. And yet, the subsequent year the drop is 200m because there are no levers. The club can pay the salaries but the system punishes the post-covid yoyo. And again, we have to renew players on high salaries instead of releasing them at end of contract just to gradually reduce the cap.
It is just an insane model we are following, and yet the clubs voted for it.
Mind you Madrid played with their numbers in the stadium reconstruction and have a better business man in chance with Florentino and will sit around a 700m cap. So it is possible to strategically have success.
Maybe Laporta overplayed his hand with the levers and should have looked to achieve a 450-500m salary cap to steady the ship? So that would basically mean same squad but no Lewandowski and no Kounde. Basically means a basic RB in place of Kounde out of position and a free signing like Lacazette who (hindsight admittedly) is showing in Ligue1 that he will still score goals in a less demanding league- just as Auba showed for us 6 months prior.
So that way, this summer we wouldn't need to reduce any cap as the Lewa/Kounde transfer fees are removed+high wages.
