Recent content by Huckleberry

That's not the point. Barça payed about 40 M € (all incl.) for Alves as transfer fee (and complicated bonuses for Sevilla), which results to about 10 M for amortisation every year of the contract, besides the salary! The renewal of the contract will be cheaper for Barça as the actual contract...

I wonder why salary is such an issue. For a club, expenses are expenses, may they be called salary or what ever, for example amortisation. To replace Alves the club has to spend not only the salary of the future player but also the transfer fee (with annual amortisation). Thats easily an other...

There are so many salary lists around... But no proper sources.

Isn't it possible to let him play with the B-Team for a while?

Barça still has one and a half year time to renegociate Dani's contract. Just stop it for the moment.

everybody deserves 20 million. The only question is who is capable and willing to pay it....

Alves is not a player you can replace. You have to change many things without Alves. But that's not a reason to keep him at any cost.

Not an easy decision...

Both, Madrid and Barça, had too much money to spend. So they spent it with no regard to oeconomic sense. Buying expensive players, giving them a huge salary, then let them go for free after a year or two, just to buy another player the same way....

Let's hope, the contract extension is part of a general plan, that also includes a loan out soon...

England: Arsenal (since fewer pitch (; ) France: Marseille Germany: Mönchengladbach for a while, now Mainz Switzerland: Basel Netherlands: Ajax

Is there anybody left who still thinks that we need a plan b with an expensive tall striker, watching our game from the bench day in day out and waiting for a never coming opportunity of a substitution?

Jep.

Well, but what is the truth now?

Real's hompage: ... The Whites continued looking to cut into the lead, and on 38’ Cristiano was fouled inside the box by Valdes as the two battled for a ball, but the referee failed to award the spot kick. ... but ten minutes in Villa made it 3-0 in a clear offside position. ...but everything...