Memphis Depay

[malvolio]

Crazy to think a player gotten for free and on low salary became top scorer is considered flop. lol
Nobody expected he'd carry Barca by himself. He scored the necessary goals.

Still flop in my view. Scored vs some bums, 0 goals in CL, got injured and by March he was a reserve.

We got dumped out of CL with him as starter. Not all his fault, but tells you everything about his level.

So good that the whole of Europe is fighting for his signature.

Flop doesn't really mean atrocious as some other bums we had over the years. It's just he wasn't a success either. Shitiest Barca in years and he can't hold a starting position.

 

[TheStig]

He came for free and can sign a new contract with another club in 6 months. And truth is nobody wants to pay for him. He is a flop when you consider he lost his starting position and didn't achieve anything here.

So instead of paying him for another season it is better we get rid.

I'm not saying we should ask for 100 mil but almost any club except Barca could sell a player like that for at least 10 mil. He can stay if we don't get the money we want, he's not on a big salary.

 

[malvolio]

I'm not saying we should ask for 100 mil but almost any club except Barca could sell a player like that for at least 10 mil. He can stay if we don't get the money we want, he's not on a big salary.

I get what you're saying but 10M is not a big amount and still no one wants to pay that. Man Utd submits bid of 8M for Arnautovic, go figure.

Why are people going with this lie about his 'low' salary. Depay gets 5M euros NET a season. More than Kounde, Pedri or Ter Stegen.

5M a season for sitting on the bench? Low salary you say?

 

[TheStig]

I don't know how much he gets, that's low for a player of his quality who came as a free agent. I think someone would pay at least 10 mil for him but Depay wants to go as a free agent so he can get those 10 mil himself. I don't blame him, it's the club who should stand strong. It wouldn't be the worst thing in the world to have him as a backup.

 

[serghei]

I doubt he would add anything to us at this point though. So you'd just be keeping him for nothing. This is why we're letting him go. At least we save his wages. And free up a bit more wage space.

Was also hoping for some 10-15m.

 

[jamrock]

Why doesn't anyone wanna leave Barcelona, is the city that nice?.

Jeezas.

 

[iniestaGOAT]

Why doesn't anyone wanna leave Barcelona, is the city that nice?.

Jeezas.

Neymar

But then he wanted to come back

 

[Messi983]

Crazy to think a player gotten for free and on low salary became top scorer is considered flop. lol
Nobody expected he'd carry Barca by himself. He scored the necessary goals.

You should know every player not named Messi is considered a flop for that guy.

 

[Messi983]

When you sign an older player for free, it's in the heads of everyone that you got him for free.

As Joan said, we got him for free and he failed. Why would anyone pay more than 4-5m for him?

Ok, Wijnaldum is slightly older but a similar story.
He came for free to Psg and failed.
Was anyone interested to sign him for anything more than a symbolic 2-3m this summer? I guess no.

When a player is around 30 and comes for free, after that he usually moves from a club to club on free/loan till the end of his career.

Can't really compare him to Wijnaldum who was on like twice the wages and actually had a bad season unlike Memphis who was by far our best player in first half of the season playing alongside kids like Abde and Jutgla who had never played above Segunda B level before that. Then got injured because he was overplayed.

 

[Joan]

He scored 8 nonP goals in 28 league matches. Came to Barca believing he's a top level player and that he's going to show it. He took lower wages to earn his big contract but now depends on Barca to release him for free to get a good deal despite Barca asking only for a small fee. He was a flop here. Not a bad player at all but just isn't big club material.

Let go, get rid and be done.

 

[Horatio]

He scored 8 nonP goals in 28 league matches. Came to Barca believing he's a top level player and that he's going to show it. He took lower wages to earn his big contract but now depends on Barca to release him for free to get a good deal despite Barca asking only for a small fee. He was a flop here. Not a bad player at all but just isn't big club material.

Let go, get rid and be done.

Sounds a bit contradictory. If he were truly thought he would be as important for barca as you said he believes, why play for so cheap then?

 

[FinBarcelonafan]

He will annihilate the Italian league, and United will buy him in one year for 100 mils.

 

[Joan]

Sounds a bit contradictory. If he were truly thought he would be as important for barca as you said he believes, why play for so cheap then?

Barca couldn't pay him better and they doubted it.

I already said I doubted someone offered him significantly better terms. 5m net is above average salary. In my opinion, which might very well be wrong, he came here to prove he's a tier 1 club player under Koeman who he liked working with. Signed for 2 years so he can earn his big contract either here by renewing or somewhere else.

My 2 cents.

 

[iniestaGOAT]

Sounds a bit contradictory. If he were truly thought he would be as important for barca as you said he believes, why play for so cheap then?

Cause we couldn't register anybody and we didn't even have levers last season

 

[Slevinn]

Good luck in Juventus.