"What? Barcelona wants to renew Messi's contract with an annual salary of 40 million, isn't this nonsense? ”

When Guardiola heard Lin Quan's words, he jumped up from the sofa in shock.

What is Laporta doing?

40 million to renew Messi's contract, then Barcelona's salary system is about to collapse?

The annual salary that the two are talking about is an annual salary after tax, according to the Spanish tax rate, an annual salary of 40 million after tax means that Barcelona is used to pay Messi's salary every year, which is as high as 70 million euros!

What is this concept?

Last year, the total salary expenditure of the Barcelona team was only 339 million euros, which is equivalent to saying that Messi alone accounted for more than 20% of the total salary of the Barcelona team!

If you do this, Barcelona's financial system will definitely collapse!

Barcelona is not Manchester City, Manchester City has the support of a Middle Eastern consortium behind it, and Barcelona purely relies on membership dues, sponsorship, broadcast shares, tickets and other channels to obtain income.

The financial resources of the two teams are not on the same level at all!

Even with the European Fiscal Fair Play Act, Manchester City's money is still not comparable to Barcelona's.

Therefore, Manchester City gave Lin Quan the world's first annual salary, which is affordable for Manchester City, but for Barcelona, if they really force Messi to pay such a high annual salary, then they will collapse themselves sooner or later!

"With Messi's contribution to Barcelona, this salary is reasonable, I don't think it's expensive!"

Lin Quan doesn't have a big opinion on this, Messi should take so much money.

Under the adverse effects of Neymar's departure and Xiaobai's declining state, Barcelona is now really relying on Messi alone.

It's just that Barcelona is different from ordinary teams, they have a lot of old players in the team, and many of them are players produced by their own academy, which leads to these players occupying the team's places, and there is no way to clean, and they have to continue to give them salary increases.

After Messi's salary increase, Xiaobai, Busquets, Pique and others will definitely follow suit.

As a result, the overall payroll expenses are high.

In addition, since Barcelona was poached Neymar, the entire club, from the president of the club to ordinary fans, has a lack of security in their hearts.

Neymar is at the heart of the Barça people for the next decade and is the cornerstone of their team.

However, such an important player was abducted by others.

This caused panic throughout Barcelona, and all their plans were broken.

So I urgently want to buy a star in the transfer market who can replace Neymar and carry the banner of Barcelona in the next ten years.

Now, Barcelona's eagerness is well known, coupled with the 200 million euros paid by Grand Paris, making Barcelona a foolish and rich Kaizi in the transfer market.

But any player from any club who is targeted by Barcelona will be slaughtered by them!

Therefore, the money in Barcelona's hands may not be able to withstand the toss.

Lin Quan predicts that after FIFA lifts their transfer ban this summer, Barcelona will soon run out of money in their pockets, and will even take out loans to buy people and owe a lot of foreign debt!

After listening to Lin Quan's words, Guardiola sighed.

Barcelona is in this situation, and there is nothing he can do.

Barcelona now faces two major problems: rebuilding and clearing!

Rebuilding costs people, and you have to buy the right people!

Clearing is to gradually complete the replacement of old and new players in the team, so that young players can get more opportunities, gradually replace those old players in the team, and release the salary space occupied by the old players.

It's not an easy job, and Barcelona, as a former six-time champion, still have a lot of those players from the Dream Three Dynasty who are currently in the team.

These players are all meritorious players at the beginning, with old seniority and high prestige, and their status in the Barcelona team is extraordinary.

Unless they leave on their own initiative, Barcelona are unlikely to purge them.

Among them, the most difficult to deal with is none other than Messi.

Messi is 29 years old, and as long as there are no major injuries, with his form, it is no problem to play for another four or five years at Barcelona.

For Barcelona, Messi is the most influential player in the Barcelona team and has brought countless commercial benefits to the club.

Without Messi, Barcelona's business income may drop a lot.

However, for the long-term development of Barcelona, they need to establish a person who can succeed Messi as soon as possible.

Barcelona can't rely on Messi all the time, but the problem is how difficult it is to find a successor to Messi!

Even if they find it, in the state of Messi as a system, these people will never be able to really replace Messi in Barcelona.

They may be the core of the field in the original team, but when they come to Barcelona, the core will always be Messi's, and these people have to play a supporting role for Messi.

Let Messi make way for these people and assist them, not to mention Messi's own attitude, fans all over the world will not agree, and sponsors will not agree.

And if it can't become the new core of Barcelona, there is no way to talk about replacing Messi.

Therefore, even a player like Griezmann, who is very suitable for Barcelona in every way, can only come to Barcelona with a feather.

This problem is difficult to solve, Barcelona either let Messi go, or do a good job of Messi in the team for the rest of his life, temporarily give up some requirements for results, and leave a good reputation for treating meritorious veterans well while preserving commercial interests.

However, Barcelona chose the worst - stabbed Messi in the back at the last moment of the transfer period, and ended up with no personal wealth and huge infamy.

I really don't know what they think!

"Don't talk about them, you can think about the renewal of the contract yourself, concentrate on training during this time, stand the last post, and talk about other things later, whether you decide to leave or stay, I will support you!"

Guardiola patted Lin Quan on the shoulder, and after dropping a sentence, he turned and went upstairs and returned to his study to continue studying tactics.

As the head coach, he should keep Lin Quan, because no one knows better than him how important Lin Quan is in Manchester City's tactical system.

But as a father, he has to put himself in his son's shoes.

Since Lin Quan has moved his mind to leave Manchester City, it shows that he is not happy to stay here.

So Guardiola will not meddle in this matter, unless Lin Quan takes the initiative to consult him.

Lin Quan was a little moved in his heart, and the biggest obstacle preventing him from leaving was actually Guardiola.

He is concerned that his departure will have a huge impact on Manchester City and in turn on Pep Guardiola's managerial prospects.

But Pep Guardiola himself didn't care about any of this at all, and instead fully supported his decision.

Thinking of this, Lin Quan sighed and looked at the new contract in front of him again.

……

Although he encountered the trouble of renewing the contract, these did not affect Lin Quan's state.

Both on the training pitch and on the field, his performances have been as consistent as ever.

In the 36th round of the Premier League, Manchester City defeated Southampton 4:2 away, although Lin Quan only played half of the game, he was in hot form, and completed the hat trick early in the first half.

Worried that his early fit would affect his performance in the next Champions League semi-final, Pep Guardiola pressed him to the bench at half-time and let him sit for the second half.

Southampton launched a frantic comeback in the second half, with Mane, the opposing team's star mane, scoring twice in the 54th and 67th minutes to tie the gap to one goal.

At the crucial moment, Iheanacho stepped up and scored a beautiful long-range strike on 78 minutes to help his team stabilize the situation and eventually win the victory.

After this game, the whole Manchester City team set off and went directly to Madrid, ready to go to Atletico Madrid away.

……

Madrid is the capital of Spain, and there are many football clubs in the city.

But there is obviously only one that is the most famous, and that is Real Madrid!

As Atletico's rivals, Real Madrid is more than willing to make things easier for those Atletico Madrid opponents.

In addition, Real Madrid is going to challenge Bayern Munich away in this round of games, so the whole Manchester City team directly stayed at Real Madrid's training base for the final preparation training here.

Considering that Real Madrid may also meet Manchester United in the Champions League, it is indispensable to borrow Manchester City's training base at that time.

So this kind of thing is relatively common among the giants, but when the whole Manchester City team arrived at the Real Madrid training base, they were warmly welcomed by the Real Madrid club.

The senior management of Real Madrid Club enthusiastically led them to visit Real Madrid's training base.

The Valdebebas training base should be the highest training base in Europe, although the terrain is relatively high, but the construction here is very magnificent, very luxurious.

At the entrance to the training base, there is a circular fountain, which is flanked by a large amount of green vegetation, shady and full of life.

Trimmed to the word "RealMadrid" in English, it is erected at the entrance and can be seen at a glance.

Walking into the base, you can see a total of 11 training fields, large and small, and the lawns used in these fields are all lawns that meet the standards of international competitions.

The turf is taken care of by a special person, even if a large number of players from the first team and youth team train here, they can't see any flaws on the turf, obviously they are changed very often, and according to the staff of the Real Madrid club, these lawns are specially transported from the Netherlands!

When Lin Quan and the others came to the training ground, there were still some players training on the training ground.

However, looking at the age, most of them should be young players from the B team and the youth team.

After these people saw Lin Quan and the others, their eyes lit up one by one, and they all ran over to ask for autographs from the stars they admired.

As the most well-known player in the Manchester City team, Lin Quan has the most 'little fans' around him.

"Lin, can you sign for me?"

"I want a group photo!"

"Can you send me a signed jersey?"

"Can you sign my football?"

"I have a friend who likes you very much, can you sign him too?"

The little fans chattered and chatted excitedly around Lin Quan.

Seeing this, the club staff on the side tried to stop these people so that Lin Quan could be relieved.

Before he came, he had received instructions from the club's president, Mr. Florentino, to treat the Manchester City players well, especially Lin Quan.

Real Madrid, as one of the recognized chasers of Lin Quan in football, has this opportunity to get closer to each other and enhance goodwill, and they naturally will not miss it.

"It's okay, don't drive them away!"

Lin Quanjian saw that there were not many people asking for autographs, so he couldn't delay too much time.

So Xiang met the requirements of these special fans, and after meeting the requirements of these young fans, Lin Quan also borrowed some football from the Real Madrid club, signed his name on it, and gave it to the staff present, one for each person.

This approach won the goodwill of everyone present, and although many of them were only civilian personnel and did not play football on weekdays, it was definitely a bright thing to receive a gift from the first person in football today.

Real Madrid's training base facilities are very complete, and after visiting the facilities outside, the staff of Real Madrid Club also took them to visit Real Madrid's tactical room, leisure room, guest rooms, catering center, fitness center, spa, medical center and other places.

True to Real Madrid, their training base is not only well-equipped but also quite luxurious, and it is not lost to Manchester City at all.

Real Madrid is said to have spent 120 million euros on this training base, and in terms of cost, they spent no less money to build this base than Manchester City.

Of course, Manchester City's training base is built in the city centre, and land is a bit more expensive.

After visiting Real Madrid's training base, Pep Guardiola told the players to rest early, adjust and prepare for the next day's training.

Although many of the main players did not play in the games played during the day, and even when they did, they only played half or most of the game, and the physical consumption was not large.

However, given the fatigue of their travel and the high altitude here, the players may not be able to adapt for a while when they first arrive.

So he didn't rush to let the team start training, but waited for the team to recuperate and adjust to the condition, and then started training at 10 o'clock in the morning the next day.

Although there are a lot of young players in the Real Madrid first team training on weekdays, when Manchester City starts training, there are still many curious young Real Madrid players who come to watch.

There are even some girls among them, who seem to be Real Madrid's women's football team?

The development of professional women's football in Europe is not too early, it has only started gradually in the past few years, but the pace of development is very fast.

Especially the women's football team in La Liga and the Premier League, but in the women's football area, the strongest team is neither Manchester City nor Real Madrid, but another team in the Spanish Super League - Barcelona!

Like the Barcelona men's team, the Barcelona women's team, which takes the technical route, is simply a difficult opponent in Spain, there is no team at all that is their unanimous enemy, and their dominance on the field is even more terrifying than when the Barcelona Cosmos team was in the past.

However, although women's football is developing rapidly, the level of competition is still not high, and the commercial value is also very low, so the salary and treatment are completely incomparable with men's football.

(End of chapter)