2023-08-01 19:53:07
Barça continues to erase the traces of the most recent past at the Palau Blaugrana. If 12 days ago it was announcedto termination of Nikola Mirotic’s contractwhich expired in June 2025, yesterday the same procedure was repeated (with the same and sparse, aseptic communication, without any kind of thanks) to do the same with Cory Higgins, the American guard who arrived as the Montenegrin power forward at the club in the 2019-20 season, under the mandate of Josep Maria Bartomeu. In his case, he had one year left on his contract that he will not fulfill after his dismissal, the path that the club has found after the negotiations for an agreed exit did not bear fruit.
The reason is the same in both cases. This measure is limited to compliance with the economic feasibility plan set by FC Barcelona». Thus concludes the statement that Barça made public at noon yesterday, confirming what was already more than well known. Higgins has no place in Roger Grimau’s project for a salary, some 3.5 million gross per year, unaffordable within the cut that is applied in the entity (with a budget reduction in the 30% section compared to last year) to comply LaLiga’s demands on the salary limit for the registration of soccer team players.
Operation in May
In the case of Higgins, it was also playing against his continuity Your physical condition, a determining factor in your performance decreasing throughout these four years that he has remained at Barça. In fact, he has been out since May when he underwent surgery for his lower back problems. The intervention left him out of the Final Four in Kaunas and the play-off in which Barça were proclaimed league champions after defeating Real Madrid 3-0 in the final.
The way of the courts with a judge to set the compensation for dismissal, has been opened in both cases. In favor of Barça it plays that this compensation amount will not have an impact on the adjustment plan, which did happen with the figures of the contracts. Both have left the Palau with two Leagues and two Cups, as their main titles, and without winning the Euroleague, the objective that defined their arrival at the club through an unprecedented investment in Barça basketball, despite participating in the last three editions of the Final Four.
twelve players
Barça, now, has yet to finish closing a squad that is already very advanced, after the three signings (Joel Parra, Willy Hernangómez and Darío Brizuela) and that has not covered Mirotic’s position in the team. The possibility of incorporating Juancho Hernangómez was frustrated after his transfer to Panathinaikos.
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Roger Grimau currently has 12 players in the first team with two point guards (Satoransky and Jokubaitis), three shooting guards (Laprovittola, Brizuela and Michael Caicedo, after his loan to Granada), three forwards (Kalinic, Abrines and Paulí), a winger center (Da Silva)_and three centers (Willy, Vesely and Nnaji).
The three incorporations have been known and proven players and they have occurred through payment of a clause (Parra and Brizuela)_or by the resignation of the club’s trial with its rights, as Madrid did with Willy. Now the technical secretariat must dive into the market for a highly sought after position, that of power forward, by most European clubs. And on certain dates, moreover, in which the templates are beginning to be almost complete and the remaining resource is to opt for one of those players who do not find a place for themselves in the NBA, despite the inconvenience that the lack of experience in Europe may entail in that case.
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