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Has anyone ever tried though? Has anyone put themselves up for election to the board on a platform of "We need to be more financially responsible", or even "we need to get out of debt, so the club can survive long term." Coz these are reasonable positions, and surely even amongst the Barca fanbase there are people willing to be reasonable.
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BrigadierSensible posted:Has anyone ever tried though? To be fair, Rosell technichally promised something like that during the elections of 2010 iirc, the good old times when a debt of nearly 500 millions was considered stratospheric lmao. If this sentiment was born out of true concern for the well-being of the club or his desire of petty revenge against Laporta (Rosell was his vice-president and they had a huge spat), I cannot say. Was his management good or financially responsible? No but it's my opinion, and I'm really biased against both Lolporta and Rosell.
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I like to think Victor Font would have been more prudent but I wasn't paying too much attention to the campaign. Definitely a smarter guy then Laporta though.
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Kind of insane that they seem to be getting away with it and are on top of the league (so far). Would be nice if this wasn't sustainable and barcelona finally got what was coming to them
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mila kunis posted:Kind of insane that they seem to be getting away with it and are on top of the league (so far). Would be nice if this wasn't sustainable and barcelona finally got what was coming to them It feels like Barcelona's recent success has been a ponzi scheme based on winning, so naturally pulling all the levers let them win again and escalate the house of cards to yet another level
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BrigadierSensible posted:the Barca fanbase  These were the people yowling tears of incandescent rage and burning Messi shirts at the gates of the Nou Camp because he had the temerity to want to get paid
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BrigadierSensible posted:Has anyone ever tried though? yeah his name was Jimmy Carter
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mila kunis posted:Kind of insane that they seem to be getting away with it and are on top of the league (so far). Would be nice if this wasn't sustainable and barcelona finally got what was coming to them Imagine a points penalty from the league so they don't get UCL or a title this season. 
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barcelona are the worst club on the loving planet
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https://twitter.com/TheAthleticFC/status/1638171846939119618?s=20 Administrators HATE him! List all your players as under 12s to avoid having to register them, one weird trick.
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Lol. And also, lmao.
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Sign him up, Jurgie
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Him leaving would be the best possible outcome lmao
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the sex ghost posted:https://twitter.com/TheAthleticFC/status/1638171846939119618?s=20 It gets better. A court gave Barca 20 days to file a legal claim to challenge the decision but they filed late.
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the sex ghost posted:https://twitter.com/TheAthleticFC/status/1638171846939119618?s=20 real madrid legend gavi incoming
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is this good https://disciplinary.uefa.com/027f-179a034fab97-d943763bdcba-1000/ quote:In accordance with Article 31(4) of the UEFA Disciplinary Regulations, UEFA Ethics and Disciplinary Inspectors have today been appointed to conduct an investigation regarding a potential violation of UEFA’s legal framework by FC Barcelona in connection with the so-called ‘Caso Negreira’.
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Nuclear Spoon posted:is this good it's a term of endearment in catalonia
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Nuclear Spoon posted:is this good How much does it cost to bribe a UEFA disciplinary inspector? Asking for a friend.
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Nuclear Spoon posted:is this good I asked Drogba and he said it's a loving disgrace
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Lots of speculative fiction is being written online about the possibility of Messi returning. Is there even a slim chance of this happening? What would it take for that to happen?
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MIDWIFE CRISIS posted:Lots of speculative fiction is being written online about the possibility of Messi returning. Is there even a slim chance of this happening? What would it take for that to happen? lionel messi to agree to reduce his salary demands down to 1 (one) happy meal after every game, no extras
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Let's say he's willing to do a weird charity deal, can a player sign on for 1€/year? Is there anything else stopping them from registering him? Full disclosure, I am a Real Madrid supporter and I don't want him back in the league lol
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MIDWIFE CRISIS posted:Let's say he's willing to do a weird charity deal, can a player sign on for 1€/year? Is there anything else stopping them from registering him? The usual answer for ‘can we gently caress around with the taxman?’ is that if it seems like you can, you probably can’t. Outside of the fact Barcelona would then be liable for fines for paying an employee less than minimum wage, even if they upped it to €5.000/year, in a common law system it’d butt up against the concept of sufficient consideration in the contract vs the value of Messi, but Spain is civil based so god knows.
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didn't barcelona try some funky deal like that an La Liga said no which is why he ended up at PSG
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MIDWIFE CRISIS posted:Let's say he's willing to do a weird charity deal, can a player sign on for 1€/year? Is there anything else stopping them from registering him? Last time he was not allowed to cut his salary by more than 50%. It also doesn't matter if Barcelona are above the hard limit.
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Individual considerations aside, looks like the minimum annual salary a LaLiga player can earn is €155,000 by the current league rules.
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TheRat posted:Last time he was not allowed to cut his salary by more than 50%. It also doesn't matter if Barcelona are above the hard limit. I'd imagine it would be somewhat different this time as he'd effectively be a new signing, so his old contract is irrelevant. They were definitely able to do some level of salary fuckery though, as I know Pique agreed to play for virtually nothing (on the grounds that he has legitimate gently caress-you money from his other investments and is potentially sizing up a run for Barca President in future), but I didn't at any point get the vibe that Messi was willing to do the same while there were €100m contracts on the table elsewhere.
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just taking a moment to imagine what my life would be like if I woke up one morning and decided to dump Shakira because I was sick of her poo poo, before driving to my job as a professional footballer that I do for free as a hobby since the money I'd make is literally inconsequential to my lifestyle
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barca calling for tebas to resign lol https://www.fcbarcelona.es/es/club/noticias/3134510/comunicado-del-fc-barcelona
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víctima de un linchamiento mediático
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Where did you get that from? Are you talking about the 2021 salary "reduction", which was not a real salary reduction, more like a postponement with strings attached, or the time in 2022 when he and the other captains where asked to cutback their salary for real and flat out refused? There have been multiple attempts at salary fuckery alright, but he has never agreed to play for virtually nothing. His sudden decision to retire has been the real money saving measure that Barça got from Pique, and good riddance to that idiot.
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Angry Lobster posted:Where did you get that from? like all good journalists, my main sources are twitter rumours and articles written in foreign-language newspapers that I've run through google translate
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Add "the stadium revamp" to the list of Barcelona things not going so wellThe Athletic posted:The Athletic has spoken to many people who have worked on the Espai Barca project, as well as experts in the financial and construction industries with stakes in what happens with the Camp Nou’s facelift.
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vyelkin posted:it's a term of endearment in catalonia this genuinely got an lol from me
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I think Messi's return to Barça is highly unlikely for now. All that talk is nothing more than a smokescreen. Right now, Laporta is laser focused on the "Espai Barça" project and that's a tad worrisome because that poo poo smells like trouble, and by trouble I mean freaking financial suicide. The entire thingie is another, bigger, gamble and a leap of faith going nowhere, which is a very Lolporta thing to do btw.FullLeatherJacket posted:like all good journalists, my main sources are twitter rumours and articles written in foreign-language newspapers that I've run through google translate Lmao fair enough.
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Welp, the madman has done it: https://www.sport.es/en/news/barca/how-barca-have-managed-to-close-the-financing-of-espai-barca-project-85703442 Debt? What debt? The show must go on.
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So they’re just taking on another 1.5bn in debt? What?
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blue footed boobie posted:So they’re just taking on another 1.5bn in debt? What? More like 2.7bn (aprox.) after interest, but yeah, that's the idea.
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