Nobody wants to leave Barça for now. Nor Dembélé, although it will soon be known if he stays or not, perhaps this Monday. There is a week left for Xavi’s project to start and everything continues the same. The market officially opens on July 1, but the technician watches with concern the imperceptible movements.
Both in signings, Bayern, as revealed yesterday by Sky Sport, has valued Lewandowski in 60 million euros, as in departures, the sports policy totally conditioned to the economic difficulties that drown the Barça club.
Nobody leaves Barça of their own free will, no matter how forceful and resounding Xavi was in his message towards the players who do not fit into his plans. So far, there have only been three casualties in the first team. The transfer of Jutglà to Bruges for five million euros fits more into the structure of the subsidiary, where he ended up playing the last months of last season.
The only three casualties (Alves, Adama and Luuk de Jong) have left because their contract ended on June 30
They have left, and they did not want to do so, Alves, whom Barça does not see with guarantees of offering him a space just before the World Cup in Qatar, Adama Traoré, whose performance decreased significantly after an excellent start after arriving in the winter market , and Luuk de Jong, the saving head for Xavi with six goals in the League that gave the team valuable points. Only three have left, but in a forced way because the contractual bond expired on June 30. I mean, this Thursday.
off-market wages
But the others, eight days before the start of the preseason, are still clinging to their box office at the Camp Nou. Not only because he is endorsed by a document but because they have unaffordable chips in these times for the rest of the teams.
As much interest as there may be about Xavi’s dismissals, pieces that have had no impact at all at Barça, it is almost impossible to fit him into the salary scale of his new destination, his salaries runaway, all signed in the dark era of Josep Maria Bartomeu.
The club has not yet found the formulas to get rid of players who do not count for Xavi soon
This problem is also part of the poisoned inheritance that the previous president bequeathed to The door. Not only because of the duration of their contracts (Umtiti and Lenglet still have four more years, Braithwaite still has a couple of seasons left and Netowho has been saying for months that he wants to leave, but then he stays warming up the bench Ter Stegendoes not end until 2023) but because the record of all of them is agreed in the times prior to the pandemic.
It is, therefore, a real problem for Barça because there are no teams that can reach those figures, which is why they require, in most cases, that the Barça club assume a part of it to free themselves from that problem. sports. And, at the same time, economical.
few and cheap sales
The market, which has not yet officially opened its doors, but it is real, does not help either because it is moving very slowly, with Barça’s marginalized gaining time.
In Spain, there is no money. Only Madrid has had the resources to invest almost 100 million euros in Tchoumaneni (80 fixed and 20 in variables).
Bayern now rates Lewandowski at 60 million, double what he has paid for Mané
But the drama increases, above all, at the sales level. The most expensive has been, for the moment, the one carried out by Sevilla transferring to diego charles to Aston Villa (31 million), followed by the one from Barça who definitively left Coutinho at West Ham (20) after costing 120 plus 40 in variables four years ago, together with the one signed by Getafe, who sent Mathias Olivera to Naples (11) and Betis was already owned by Willian Jose paying 10 million to Real Sociedad.
And they return five on loan
To understand the dimension of these poor figures compared to those handled in the Premier, the European league with the most financial muscle, if Mateu Alemany managed to convince Frenkie de Jong for him to leave the Camp Nou on his way to Manchester United he would obtain 80 million, even more than the four previous operations combined (71).
Therefore, Xavi needs all those sales to be resolved so as not to start his second project at Barça with a rarefied atmosphere, which is, in fact, the first. In addition, they return to the coach five on loan to which accommodation must also be found.
In addition, five have returned on loan to the Camp Nou (Pjanic, Trincao, Collado, Iñaki Peña and Rey Manaj) who must be accommodated
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Trincao (Wolverhampton), Pjanic (Basics), the meta Inaki Pena (Galatasaray), hill (Grenada) and King Manaj (Spezia) return to the Camp Nou with few options to stay.
If anything, Collado and Iñaki, as long as Neto leaves, unless there is no destination for Trincao, with the consequent economic problem that this entails Pjanic. The folders are piled up in Alemany’s office, with Xavi rushing through his last days of vacation, sighing, above all, to find the money that he brings to Lewandowski, pillar, yes or yes, of the new project.