Xavi Hernández

[ajnotkeith]

Since you spoke about transfers in laudatory terms... maybe you need to check out some more facts.

Squad transfer cost: four ‘billionaire’ clubs - CIES Football Observatory

The 430th edition of the CIES Football Observatory Weekly Post presents the top 100 teams in the world having invested the most on transfer fees (...)

football-observatory.com

Barcelona spent on their squad a total of 375m in transfer fees. 10m more than Notthingam Forrest. 40m less then Everton. These are teams from bottom table in EPL.

Where is the wage bill stats? What is Nottingham Forest wage bill vs Barcelona's?

 

[jamrock]

Since you spoke about transfers in laudatory terms... maybe you need to check out some more facts.

Squad transfer cost: four ‘billionaire’ clubs - CIES Football Observatory

The 430th edition of the CIES Football Observatory Weekly Post presents the top 100 teams in the world having invested the most on transfer fees (...)

football-observatory.com

Barcelona spent on their squad a total of 375m in transfer fees. 10m more than Notthingam Forrest. 40m less then Everton. These are teams from bottom table in EPL.

Is this net spend or total?, net we'd probably be much lower

 

[mc_lovin]

Under Laporta we have a net spend of ~10m and people want his head. It’s incredible where we came from.

 

[serghei]

Is this net spend or total?, net we'd probably be much lower

Total.

 

[Respekt_III]

Under Laporta we have a net spend of ~10m and people want his head. It’s incredible where we came from.

Provide source for that value please because we spent 64m net (assuming we got 50 and not 25 m for demeble - which we all know we didnt.) and i think -120m net last year?

 

[serghei]

Where is the wage bill stats? What is Nottingham Forest wage bill vs Barcelona's?

You first need to sign top players. Those top players cost a lot of money if they are not:

a) rejects
b) old
c) bad
d) any of the above

 

[Windhook]

Looks like Laporta ate half of the budget.

 

[DonAK]

Not sure why Nottingham Forrest and PL teams net spend is being discussed when a Xavi-led Barcelona might become the first Barca team since like 1930 to end behind another Catalan club in La Liga.

 

[Respekt_III]

Not sure why Nottingham Forrest and PL teams net spend is being discussed when a Xavi-led Barcelona might become the first Barca team since like 1930 to end behind another Catalan club in La Liga.

deflection tactic.

 

[ajnotkeith]

You first need to sign top players. Those top players cost a lot of money if they are not:

a) rejects
b) old
c) bad
d) any of the above

Yes and also costs a lot of money to pay players like Lewa, who Nottingham Forest would never sign.

Transfer fees are coupled with wage fees and both are directly correlated to the skill of the player (wages perhaps even more so) so only using transfer fees is, deceptive, likely intentionally, as you know we have one of the highest world wage bills.

 

[Windhook]

No Barca manager, regardless if he's Klopp or not, could win European trophy with these finances. Just La Liga, if Real Madrid are complacent.

 

[Respekt_III]

No Barca manager, regardless if he's Klopp or not, could win European trophy with these finances. Just La Liga, if Real Madrid are complacent.

I just proved in one of my previous posts that you potentially can?

 

[serghei]

Yes and also costs a lot of money to pay players like Lewa, who Nottingham Forest would never sign.

Transfer fees are coupled with wage fees and both are directly correlated to the skill of the player (wages perhaps even more so) so only using transfer fees is, deceptive, likely intentionally, as you know we have one of the highest world wage bills.

I'm not comparing us to Forest overall. Just the money spent to sign players.

 

[ajnotkeith]

I'm not comparing us to Forest overall .

Just the money spent to sign players.

Of course, nobody is saying we are a very well funded club, we are behind in transfer funding compared to the top Premier League teams, but not to teams outside of England.

 

[DonAK]

deflection tactic.

Yeah.

We're stuck with Xavi right now and yes he's a La Liga winning manager, but so was Bernd Schuster and I don't see Real Madrid fans twerking for him because of it. He actually set the points record with them back then too I think

Finances is an issue sure, but coaching is perhaps an even bigger issue, and I'm not sure I'd trust Xavi with a lot of money either when his first big money signing was Ferran Torres.