Barca Transfers and Rumors

Givenchy

Senior Member
Man Coutinho and Arthur. No one could take the ball away from us. To me it looks like Arthur plays In the wrong league, he is just way above those teams in South America.

Arthur's acceleration, quickness are so impressive and he really knows how to hold the ball. Looks perfect fit with Barca.. Get him over to Barcelona in summer!

lets hope EV actually rates him or we'll probably see Raki starting every game

we should just sell Marlon if that 20mil offer is legit, pay Arthurs buyout this summer, get Griezmann and figure how we put them all in one formation. worth looking at Thiago also if hes available
 

Barcilliant

Senior Member
Liverpool signed Fabinho for only 45 million.

He would have been perfect for Barca. If they sign Fekir or Pulisic they will be set. They already have Naby Keita.
 

Messi983

Senior Member
If the rumored wage Griezmann will be getting is correct, its quite deceptive to only focus on the transfer fee and not include the signing on bonus and his wage. 15m net per year is like 28m gross per year. Over a 5 year contract, thats far more than the 100m transfer fee. He'll be a huge investment and will force Coutinho to play far from the goal in midfield, whether we like it or not. Time will tell whether that is a smart decision.

Its also worth pointing out that RM have hardly spent any money over the past 5 years when taken into account their sales. The amount of money they have for spending big in the coming years must be insane.

I still think it's a smart decision to buy Griezmann. Of course his wage will be high but we got rid of some pretty high salaries over the last year with Neymar, Iniesta, Masche, Arda,... all gone and some more of the deadweight probably offloaded in summer. Yes, we've signed Coutinho and Dembele while Messi, Roberto and Pique got new contracts but I don't think our wage situation is as bad anymore.

Don't know if those wage numbers are correct but I've seen similar reported on multiple sites so I'll use them.

https://www.sportskeeda.com/football/la-liga-2017-barcelona-player-salaries

https://sillyseason.com/salary/fc-barcelona-players-salaries-69077/


Neymar: £275,000/week
Iniesta: £165,000
Mascherano: £130,000
Mathieu: £90,000
Arda: £85,000

are all gone since 2017.

Contract renewals:

Messi: I've seen reports his weekly wages will be around £500k, so that's about £165k more
Rakitić: £55k more after contract renewal
Roberto: £50k more after contract renewal
Pique: £35k more after contract renewal
MATS: £30k more after contract renewal


New signings:
Coutinho: £200,000 - £240,000 (I've seen different numbers reported; we only paid half of his wages this season)
Dembele: £200,000 - £250,000 (I've seen different numbers reported)
Paulinho: £120,000
Semedo: £75,000
Deulofeu: £75,000 (only paid half of that this season)
Mina: £68,000 (only paid half of that this season)


With very simplified calculations (without including bonuses etc. because those are unknown to me) we could say that:

- Coutinho is getting Neymar's wage (though with less bonuses and whatever else we paid to Neymar and his dad)
- we will basically give Iniesta's wage to Messi
- Mascherano's salary were used for improvement in contracts for MATS/Pique, Roberto and Raki
- Mathieu and Arda leaving are almost covering for Paulinho and Semedo wages.
- Mina was only here for 6 months and his wages in that time were probably covered with both Rafinha and Deulofeu going on loan.

So the only new big cost for the club are Dembele's wages and we can cover for that next season selling players on high wages like Paco, Gomes and Vidal.

Arthur, Lenglet and whoever else we'll buy obviously won't play for free and Umtiti, Busquets and probably Alba (though I hope not for now) will get new contracts as well but with new sponsorship contracts (Nike, Rakuten) and approved budget around 900M€ I think we can afford to give Griezmann 15m net. Of course it would be ideal if we could just give him Suarez's wages (meaning selling him) but we know this won't happen, at least not next season.

Personally I'm not against paying top money to get worldclass players (and AG is no doubt among them) but we should lower wages of squad/bench players so I hope we'll be smart here when giving contracts to Arthur, Lenglet,... Let them first prove their worth and we can always improve their contracts in a year or two (when some of the higher paid players like Suarez and Rakitić willl also probably leave) if they'll succeed but if they'll fail we can sell them easier with lower wages.
 
M

MessiCam

Guest
In my opinion, Champions League is flawed and shouldn't be given this much importance. I personally value the domestic league much higher.
It’s the glamour attached to it but it’s nothing but a cup competition at the end of the day. I don’t get the obsession with it either.
 

SeloBarca

Senior Member
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Neeraj

Senior Member

The key to this formation is our ability to not get overrun in midfield when the ball is lost about 70% up the pitch. In this case, Alba can be expected to be ahead of the halfway line, and Busquets would normally drop deeper. But that means the entire midfield is susceptible to being walked past.

So the KEY here is how mobile is Arhur? He needs to be infinitely quicker than Rakitic, and have real energy to harass opposition midfielders during their attack, while also being able to surge forward to link up play in midfield.

It's actually crazy how important Arthur (or whoever is in that position) will be, with this formation. Rakitic is currently just slow and that's why we see our midfield being walked past, becaue Busi is obviously a turtle as well.

However, the one plus point of having Greizman is that he contributes a lot defensively, and I think Coutinho puts in a decent shift as well. That should help somewhat. Of course, all this works only when Suarez is dropped, which is never going to happen, so all of this is a "moo" point :(
 

DonAK

President of FC Barcelona
Barca's plan for the summer:

- Sign Lenglet
- Sign Griezmann
- Bring Arthur now
- Sign a midfielder with potential, Rabiot:)facepalm:) possibly the primary option

They will only try to sign Eriksen if Griezmann backs out.

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TitoTata

Banned
So are you guys convinced we will be getting at least one BIG name player ??


I've always liked the look of Leicester's Mahrez who'd flourish even more in our league but the talk over here is that he will sign for ManCity in the next day or so ( £75 million )
 

DonAK

President of FC Barcelona
So are you guys convinced we will be getting at least one BIG name player ??


I've always liked the look of Leicester's Mahrez who'd flourish even more in our league but the talk over here is that he will sign for ManCity in the next day or so ( £75 million )

Where would Mahrez play?
 

LordLichtenstein

New member
Where would Mahrez play?



--------------------------------Suárez/Griezmann----------------Messi/Alcácer------------------------------------
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Coutinho/Denis----------------Busquets/Arthur----------------Rakitić/Paulinho----------------Dembélé/Mahrez
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Alba/Digne--------------------Umtiti/Vermaelen-----------------Piqué/Lenglet------------------Roberto/Semedo
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------------------------------------------------ter Stegen/Cillessen--------------------------------------------------
 

DonAK

President of FC Barcelona
That made me dizzy man

Just do it like this

Ter Stegen

Semedo - Pique - Umtiti - Alba

MF - MF - MF

And so on. Much easier.

Edit: Actually it looks fine. On the phone it looked all over the place :lol:
 
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