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I'm pretty certain Inter will fulfil his contract if he does stop playing. Or they might give him some compensation if he does decide to retire.

I mean, you can't blame them. It isn't their problem why we're in this mess.

Releasing Umtit and Pjanic is going to cost us around 60m to 70m, so it's never going to happen. If we were to loan them out, I doubt we'd get the full wages for him. I think teams will only want to pay around 50% for them due to them being on big wages.

We'd obviously keep Messi over him, but we're never going to sell Griezmann.... and he'll probably stay due to him getting 800k a week. If he goes to another team, he knows he's not even going to get half of that. He's definitely not going to take a 50% wage reduction.

I'm not saying those players are amazing or whatnot, I'm just saying we'll be completely lacking depth-wise if we release all of them. The first team will be just Fati, Depay, Aguero, Messi, Pedri, de Jong, Garcia, Pique, Dest, Emerson and ter Stegen. My problem is, what happens if a few of our...

According to Gerard Romero, we're looking to sell Braithwaite.... but he wants to stay. We're also trying to sell Coutinho, but it will be difficult because of his salary and due to him only coming back from a long injury. They're trying to force Dembele to take a 50% due to his injury. They're...

Definitely. Yeah, Messi gives us the extra boost to winning the title, but we definitely wouldn't struggle with the likes of Sevilla. La Liga isn't even that strong of a league anymore.

But, that would add money to his salary, wouldn't it? 30m would be wiped off the debt, but it still wouldn't help us in regards to the salary cap.

It does sound very shady. Laporta keeps saying it's down to the little details, but I think they're miles off from resigning Messi. As you said, the numbers just don't add up.

Huh? Most of our high earners are in squad or they're not deadweight. They include Dembele, Coutinho (he'll probably be a starter due to Koeman liking him), de Jong, Pique, Busquets, Griezmann, Alba and Roberto (he's a backup player who almost comes off the bench in most games). Heck, even ter...

Well... we can't get rid of Dembele and I doubt we can get rid of Coutinho due to him only coming back from a long injury. I doubt Junior and Braithwaite would be that much. In any case, not sure how we're going to get below the salary cap to keep Messi here. Unless we sell Griezmann, de Jong...

And that's why people won't blame Laporta. Messi wanted to leave last season, so it won't be Laporta's fault because Messi is out of contract in any case. Laporta can say he tried to keep Messi but couldn't due to the salary cap. It's entirely on Barotmeu for putting the club in a horrible mess...

Just that I've seen rumours floating about that they'll also try to remove some of our important players if needs be. Not sure who they are, but it's what I've seen. You also have to understand that moving some of backup depth won't lower the wage bill that much in any case. It'll have to be a...

It's still going to cost us quite a few million to terminate his contract, so we won't be saving that much money in any case. I honestly think it's pointless terminating contracts of your high earners. I get that they're trying to ease the wage bill for the La Liga cap so Messi can sign, but...

That's why I said in general. I've also seen rumours of shifting some of our important players so it can fund Messi's salary if needs be.

The thing is.... even the average Barcelona and Madrid sides will generate a lot of interest, simply because they have so many supporters around the world. They may not be the best teams they've ever had, but the supporters will still watch them and spend a shit load of money on their merch...

Yeah, there is no point in terminating players like Umtiti and Pjanic in any case because it'll still cost us a fortune by doing so.

I know they're not, but I'm talking in general. We're apparently trying to release/loan/sell a lot of players just so we can fund Messi's salary. I don't want us to get into a situation where we'll have no depth next season. Say a couple of our starters get injured next season, we're going to be...

Oh, the debt isn't Laporta's fault. He's in a very tough spot, but it seems as he's trying to reduce our wage bill so it funds Messi's salary. If that's true, I feel we should just move on and rebuild. Yeah, we'll have a few tough years, but our finances can improve much better. We have to move...

We can probably still win the La Liga, but we're definitely years away from competing in the Champions League. La Liga isn't that strong of a league anymore, so even with a decent squad like ours, we still have a chance. Although, it depends what signings both Madrid's make. It also depends if...