Yes it is just his basic wage. Image rights are £9.1m and bonuses £13m plus signing on and loyalty fee. (Football Leaks). Interestingly, Sancho would cost more at £100m fee and £200k a week.
You’re both wrong. Messi is on circa £70m a year, and so even on a free he’s costing an employer £140m across 2 years. Sancho is on £200k a week, a £100m fee & on a 5 year contract, would cost a club across 2 years circa £21m in wages, plus £40m in amortisation, so £61m.
If he really wants to leave Barcelona he'd have to consider a drop in wages given his age, FFP for the the clubs that could afford him etc. The guy is said to be worth half a billion dollars, so I doubt a couple of years on half a million a week would hurt!
Yes of course. There's no doubt Sancho could be seen as the better deal from age perspective alone, absolutely. It was just interesting that on face value there's not a lot in it in initial outlay.
Manchester United hold talks with Lionel Messi’s entourage as they make transfer decision, according to the Metro.
It's the Pogba thing, innit? Rumour I was told by a Man U supporting workmate was that Ole was convinced to sell Pogba last summer, but Woodward wouldn't allow it (tongue -twister), as Pogba is worth tens of millions in worldwide sales. Be interesting to see how much that means post-Covid.
fs, we're not getting koulibaly, nice though it would be. The papers (and agents) keep dragging this up, then we're ridiculed even for saying it won't happen. Even in pre-Covid times, we'd only spend that much on a key player if we had to - i.e. Virgil. We're only getting Thiago, evidently, because we're cashing in on inevitably losing Windy. That's good business, but it shows where we're at. We knew when that stand went up what the priorities would be in harsh financial times (though I always thought that was more likely being deprived of CL football, not Covid). Nonetheless, I for one still advocate extending the Anny Road over getting a centre back who is superb, but not needed. Like buying a new sports car when your garage is falling to bits. All that said though, FSG got that club at knockdown price because, according to Broughton of RSB at the time, they had the finances to build a new ground. I accept the need for review and eventually upgrading Anfield rather than a new ground, but wasn't that part of the original deal? I take flak on here for saying this, but I still think FSG get an easy ride over that. But we are where we are - the situation now, and Klopp accepts it, is that we can't go into mega debt in the current climate. I still think some clubs are basing revenues on worldwide sales that just won't be here post-Covid, but then again, neither will FFP.
Its just Koulibaly's agent trying to stir something up as the interest has cooled off. Seems nobody wants to meet Napoli's price but Koulibaly wants a move to win something before his time runs out.
Splashing the cash in the current climate is almost immoral. I think the owners should proceed with caution. They are mega rich which doesn't translate to being cash rich at any given time, I know but I refuse to believe they don't have the wherewithall to buy some players. The AR extension is only delayed due to general building difficulties with supply chains etc. it's still going ahead.
Don't get me wrong, he's an excellent CB. Not as good as Virgil, but streets ahead of the likes of Maguire and Chelsea's current CB's. But £70m even if we were rolling in it would be nuts. I'd rather see the Anny Rd get done. I think we're looking for a fourth choice CB @ £20m, at most. See if there is a good'un in the lower leagues. But please God not Diego carlos either, not even at £20m. Just looks like a bigger, CB version of Moreno to me.
