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If Messi stays, he has to waive his 33m loyalty fee. He also has to waive his signing-on fee. He also has to reduce his wages by at least 50%. Laporta cannot back down and just give Messi anything he wants. Messi is 34 in the summer. He isn't the future of the club. I guess Messi will have a...

Nobody is spending 50m on Grizemann when he's on 500k a week. Besides, Grizemann will just do what Dembele and Umtiti have done. As long as they're getting their big wages, they won't give a crap if they'll sit on the bench. Coutinho could potentially go out on loan, but we're not going to get...

He got sacked by Valencia.

I have major doubts about Laporta. He came in with a net debt of 150m euros and left us with a net debt of 450m euros. He spent a lot despite having the likes of Xavi, Messi, Pedro, Busquets, Iniesta, Valdes, Cesc, Pique and Puyol in his system. Yeah, he brought in players like Henry...

Maybe we need a businessman this time around. We've gone with Barcelona DNA for the past 18 years or so and it's actually put us in bad debt. Maybe our club needs a new change. Someone who will lower the debt rather than increase it every year. Well.... you say Bartomeu and Rosell left us with...

Yeah, the big players will be Gini, Garcia, Depay and probably Gaya. Haaland will not be here this season or next.

He did mess up with mentioning Xavi too many times, but he's given better details in his case than Laporta has. Not saying Font is perfect or whatever.... just saying he's presented his case much better than Laporta has. Laporta is just relying on his past history to win the case. He's also...

That's not true. Dias went for 72m euros, Havertz went for 80m euros, Osimhen went for 72m euros, Ben Chilwell went for over 50m euros, Werner went for 53m euros (but he would have easily gone for way more if it weren't for his release clause), Partey went for 50m euros, Ake for 50m euros. The...

I disagree. If anything, the prices are going to get worse. Inflation is always going to be a thing. Besides, Laporta spent 65m euros plus Eto'o for Ibra. Ronaldo went to Real Madrid for 94m euros. They also spent 70m euros on Kaka. That was just 2009. If anything, clubs will want as much money...

There aren't many good available ones out there at the moment, especially for the right price. Just saying, we might as well keep Koeman on for another year and save millions. There's no need to panic and try out an inexperienced Xavi. Besides, under the circumstances, Koeman isn't doing a bad...

I never stated Koeman is a bad manager. That's why I said they'll keep a decent manager on for another year and save millions by doing it. Now, if we were really struggling and had a bad manager in charge, then of course we'd let that manager go and try and get a new manager in.

If that's the case, we're not signing him. We're looking to reduce the wage bill and not add to it. We probably could only afford to give him 100k a week in any case. I don't blame him for wanting one last big payday. He's 31 this year and this will be his last big contract with a team.

Koeman is guaranteed to stay on no matter what. They can't afford to sack him and then replace him with another manager. They don't want to lock a new manager into a new contract if it goes wrong. We'd have to sack him and pay him off. Sacking Koeman would cost us millions.... millions we can't...

Not to mention, you need talented players to play that kind of style. He had great passes like Iniesta, Xavi and Messi to build off. He also had players like Henry and Ronaldinho who could play that way. In our squad, who can realistically play that type of football he's talking about? There...

https://twitter.com/HagridFCB/status/1367140015671635968 This is what I have big concerns about. He can't say he knows how the market works when he's been out of the game for over 11 years. It's totally changed from when he was last in charge. You're not getting players like Eto'o, Ronaldinho...

No sponsors are going to touch this club for years. There is too much dirty stuff going on behind the scenes. So good luck to the new president trying to bring in new money into the club. Besides, Bartomeu and co will just get a slap on the wrist. Bartomeu might have just fucked this club even...

Let's be honest here, Laporta cannot afford to get a big profile manager and he wants someone who has Barcelona DNA as their manager. Arteta has played in our youth system before, so technically he does have Barcelona DNA. He won't get lucky again and find another Pep in his system. We...

Have you noticed that every plan has involved making a 34-year-old Messi the future of the club? They need Messi not because of his football ability..... they need Messi for his marketing money. I love to know what promises they're going to make to Messi.... and if they'll actually keep them...

That's the big question. Wouldn't surprise me if he stays or goes. If he stays, it'll be that he can't be bothered to move and that he's very settled here. It won't be because we're a class team who will be competitive next season. He'll no doubt have a much better offer from Man City. They...

I'm not saying he has much of a sporting project.... just he's at least gone into detail about how he's going to do things. Laporta hasn't done any of that. Laporta is saying the typical stuff a Barcelona candidate would say so he gets elected...... but he's not really going into detail about...