According to the latest report from Spain's daily newspaper Sport, Barca are desperate to purge high-paid players to make room for new signings this summer, because the Barca management, led by Laporta, is struggling to find a way to reduce the team's total wages.
The Western media said that Barca found it difficult to let Netherlands midfielder De Jong and Brazil winger Raphinha leave, so it is difficult for Laporta to find a way to reduce the team's total wages for Barca, and Barca's work to clean high-paid players in the summer window this year has once again reached a dead end, there is no countermeasure, no way, in short, it is difficult.
It is reported that Barcelona's original plan for this summer window was to sell De Jong, Raphinha, Araujo, and Fati smoothly, but De Jong, Araujo, and Fati all suffered injuries, and the players had no intention of leaving, resulting in no one caring. Raphinha has a Premier League side that wants to bring in, but the player only wants to stay at Barcelona.
In fact, after looking at the annual salaries of Barcelona players, you can understand, you can understand, why don't they leave the team?Do you know who is the highest-paid player in the top five leagues? It's not Mbappe, it's De Jong, the Netherlands midfielderThe annual salary (before tax) is up to 37.5 million euros, topping the top five leagues, second is his teammate Lewandowski (before tax) with a whopping 33.33 million euros. Manchester United manager Ten Hag wants the Ajax disciple De Jong, but the player does not want to leave Barcelona at all, and such a high salary is only available to Barcelona, and there is no other home.
Raphinha in BarcelonaThe annual salary (before tax) is also 12.5 million euros, if it is changed to another club, it is difficult to achieve, basically impossible to surpass, so Raphinha has no intention of leaving the team. Barcelona's difficulties are mainly due to the fact that there are too many unreasonable high-salary contracts in the team, such as De Jong, such as Lewandowski, the two of them are higher than the annual salary of most teams in the five major leagues, which is the fundamental element that prevents Barcelona's revival, and it is basically still an insoluble existence, only when such a high-salary contract is over, Barcelona can really embark on the road to rejuvenation. In fact, Barcelona and Manchester United both have similar problems, but Manchester United has gradually purged high-paid players under Ten Hag's pressure, Ronaldo is gone, De Gea is gone, Varane is gone, and the next one is basically Casemiro......