Sid Lowe, Craig Burley and Kasey Keller join Kay Murray on ESPN FC to delve into Barcelona’s win vs. Real Sociedad and the latest on the club’s mounting debt, which now totals $1.6 billion, according to club president Joan Laporta.
0:00 A good start to life after Lionel Messi for Barca.
2:36 Gerard Pique takes a pay cut.
5:23 The poor management of Barcelona’s finances.
6:36 Why did Barcelona go out and sign big-money players when they have no money?
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Dan Thomas not on this show anymore?
Pique Alba Busquets a legends. However it’s either they stay at a much worse Barca team without pay cuts or they go to even worse teams at their age who will pay them less anyway. It makes sense.
Who's this baldie seating next to Craig..he speaks too much…did he even win a single trophy in his entire career ?
Well these players were offered contracts that they didn't deserve in first place by the clown barto. Laporta is taking the heat. Sell the players? It isnt that easy, they are on such ridiculously high wages no club is willing to take them even for free.
Because the people who are leading the club are not the same ones who brought it to the situation that it is in now. Really not that hard to understand.
Pique needs that money to keep clapping Shakira’s cheeks. sorry Barça ?
Had these so called captains taken pay cut before maybe they would have kept Messi.
Do these pundits even know football or are they just dumb when they talk about la liga?
because he evidently loves his club more than Messi
gerard piquet still not retired?
Jesus christ, the ESPN commentators don't even know the names of the teams… It's "La Real", not "Sociedad"… Calling them just Sociedad makes no sense. I didn't like having to pay extra to watch La Liga on BeIn, but the coverage on ESPN so far has been absolutely shameful in general.
sergio arguro needs to go already he's going to be an expensive injury
"We need to reduce the wage bill" – goes out and signs a bunch of players on high wages. lol.
Pique is virtue signaling, he's from a billionaire family. It's goodwill and a PR stunt, at least it made the fans somewhat happy after the Messi shocker.
It's 1.3 right?!
This blonde guy sounds like a blonde person none of this player will ever make the same in any other team even if they let them go for free they will stay. So respect the club that have pay them a ton of money over the years and lower their contract similar to other players in different clubs. Memphis and all signings are here to replace others with big contracts but no one wants out.
UFEALONA IS FINISHED
Pique sees himself as future Barcelona president , and this time of his career, yeah he better take pay cut
7:05 exactly
Pique is More than a Player ??
What will Barcelonas budget be in career mode ?
I'm embarrassed, Barcelona has lost the essence of what made us who we were, la masia roots, the moment we believed in big spending on names and not philosophy we were doomed.
Barcelona wage bill is the highest in Europe, those players do not deserve those wages they are on. That's why they needed to take a pay cut. For 3 seasons they had an advance in pay that they did not deserve. Now it time for Barcelona to pay them their real value and that comes as a pay cut.
So Craig really believes that Barcelona without the new additions are a proper team? Barcelona had to promote a bunch of B players because they lacked defensive depth, they were constantly criticized on this show for lacking a true 9, dembele and fati's health are up in the air right now but sure don't buy new players, am sure Barcelona will be just fine. What a joke ?