"One hundred and fifty million euros, absolutely impossible."
What Lister said was categorical. At present, Lister and Barcelona have almost reached an agreement on everything from the transfer fee to Lister's commission, Messi's signing bonus, and Messi's salary. What's more, Lister and Barcelona have reached an agreement.
Everyone has already finished talking about avoiding high taxes. But on the final item of liquidated damages, Riester and Barcelona have very different differences.
"Huo An, Texiki, I have been doing business in Spanish football for so many years. I believe you all understand that I have a principle for setting liquidated damages. That is to set liquidated damages at ten times the after-tax salary. Of course, if the transfer
If the membership fee is higher than this, then the liquidated damages will be based on the transfer fee."
Riester has been doing business in La Liga for more than ten years. It started with ten times the pre-tax salary, and as the player's salary continued to increase, it became ten times the after-tax salary. Of course, if the after-tax salary is ten times
Since the transfer fee for the player was not high when the player originally transferred, the liquidated damages will automatically be converted into the amount of the transfer fee.
This situation is not uncommon. The transfer fees of many young players are very high, but their salaries are not as high as expected. The salary of many young talents in wealthy clubs is only about two million euros after tax. But their transfer fees are often
Thirty million euros. At that time, Riester's liquidated damages will be based on the transfer fee.
Riester is flexible about this principle. However, the final amount of liquidated damages will fluctuate around ten times the after-tax salary. It will never deviate too much and will not exceed tens of millions of euros.
Now Lister and Barcelona are stuck here. Barcelona proposed to set up a liquidated damages of 150 million euros, but Lister firmly disagreed. Messi's salary increased greatly after arriving in Barcelona this time, but his annual salary after tax is not much.
It was just over 6 million euros. Therefore, Riester requested a liquidated damages of 60 million euros.
"Rister, 60 million euros is simply impossible. We also spent 60 million euros to introduce Messi this time, and the liquidated damages are only 60 million, which is impossible for us to agree to."
Laporta shook his head. In order to bring in Messi from many powerful players this time, Barcelona can be said to have hemorrhaged a lot of money. The liquidated damages are set at 60 million euros, which they will never agree to. If Messi performs well in Barcelona, then
Isn't 60 million euros open to being poached? Especially now that there are so many upstarts, one of them might just use 60 million euros to take Messi away, and then Barcelona will be in trouble.
"Huo An, if you want to set a liquidated damages of 150 million euros, you can give Leo an after-tax salary of 15 million euros. 150 million euros is absolutely impossible. I can make a slight concession. According to the contract
bonus. I think if Leo scores double figures and assists in double figures in a season, his income is estimated to be more than 7 million euros. In this case, let’s set a liquidated damages of 70 million euros.”
"no."
Laporta shook his head again. Although it was impossible for him to remember the future transfer market clearly, he always felt that List was difficult to deal with. To be honest, there were many liquidated damages in La Liga, especially the breach of contract by La Liga giants.
Money is related to the degree of attention. For example, Barcelona has some young players who value them. When they are 18 or 19 years old, their liquidated damages are hundreds of millions of euros.
In fact, the liquidated damages of hundreds of millions of euros are not due to any other reasons. It is just that Barcelona told outside clubs that this player is very important to Barcelona, and that’s it. Very few agents bargain with the club for liquidated damages.
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This is the case with Valdes, Deco, Ronaldinho, and Henry. They all have very high liquidated damages, and their agents do not object. After all, in the development of European football, if players
I really want to leave. It’s hard for a club to forcefully stay, including these giants.
Therefore, Laporta really can't understand why Lister is so obsessed with liquidated damages. Does Lister really want someone to take away Messi at the price of liquidated damages? Once liquidated damages are paid, there will be high taxes. Like
If Messi's liquidated damages are 60 million euros, if he uses liquidated damages to poach people, the money spent will be estimated to reach hundreds of millions of euros. Although he doesn't understand, Laporta is very careful about Riester.
He always felt that Lister was too dangerous. That's why he argued with Lister about the liquidated damages project. If it were another player with 70 million euros, Laporta might have agreed.
"Huo An, I have already given in. If you continue like this, it will be difficult to negotiate this contract."
Unlike Laporta, Riester is very clear about the future European football transfer market. 60 million euros or 70 million euros can be obtained easily.
Look at Cristiano Ronaldo's transfer fee, Bale's transfer fee, Kaká's transfer fee, Cavani and Falcao's transfer fee, Ozil's transfer fee. The current European football world is completely unimaginable.
At that time, the transfer fee for a strong player was usually more than 40 million euros. 40 million euros, 50 million euros, 60 million euros, even 80 million euros, hundreds of millions.
Euros are available.
“How about 100 million euros?”
Laporta saw that List valued liquidated damages so much. Although he didn't understand it, he didn't want List to get his wish. When he heard 100 million euros, List still shook his head.
"I broke this rule at Barcelona today. How can I negotiate contracts with other clubs in the future? Eighty million euros, this is the final concession. I think if Barcelona wins the championship, in terms of bonus sharing, Leo should be able to get it.
To about 8 million euros. I will not agree to any amount above 80 million euros."
Laporta thought for a while and nodded slowly. Barcelona put in a lot of energy to bring in Messi, and even Ronaldinho was ready to sell. Now that the contract has reached this point, for just a mere
If the matter of liquidated damages is not settled, it will become a joke.
80 million euros, although it is more than 70 million euros less than the original 150 million euros. But Laporta is still not disappointed. Because 80 million euros is already very high. If someone really buys it with 80 million euros,
It would be crazy to take away Messi with tens of millions of euros in liquidated damages. Because then high taxes and other expenses will be added. It is estimated that at least 134 million euros will be spent. Laporta is not
I believe who has the courage to spend so much money to buy a player.
"Huo An, happy to cooperate."
“A pleasure to work with.”
Riester was very happy. Eighty million euros seems like a lot. Once Florentino takes charge of Real Madrid in two years, eighty million euros will be nothing. If any club can use 130 million euros in two or three years,
Forty million euros to bring in Messi, I guess I can't even close my mouth. Now hundreds of millions of euros seems like a lot, but then hundreds of millions of euros will mean nothing. To bring in Messi, they won't feel bad if they spend 200 million euros.
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On May 27, 2007, Barcelona Club suddenly announced that they had signed Messi, the top talent from Eindhoven. They signed a four-year contract with Messi. Messi's transfer started from the beginning of this year.
There has been a lot of rumors since the beginning of the month. Now the results are finally out.
How much did Barcelona spend to introduce Messi? Barcelona did not hide it. Barcelona announced that it spent 46 million euros to introduce Messi. Messi’s transfer immediately broke the record for the highest transfer fee for a U21 player. This
The previous highest transfer fee was Rooney who moved to Manchester United. His transfer fee was 37 million euros. Messi immediately raised this record by nearly 10 million euros. There was no explanation on how the money was spent.
However, people like Liszt know this very well. In order to bring in Messi, Barcelona really hemorrhaged a lot of money. The cash transfer fee alone was 22 million euros paid to PSV and Liszt two.
Fourteen million euros. And this is not over yet. It is stated in the transfer contract. If Messi wins the Copa del Rey for Barcelona during the contract period, which is four years, he will pay one million more euros, and the La Liga champion will pay two more.
One million euros, the Champions League winner will pay an extra four million euros.
If Dream 3 is as strong as it has been in history, then the total transfer fee that PSV Eindhoven and Riester can get from Barcelona in the end must be more than 60 million euros. Because Dream 3 has been the champion every year since the 0809 season.
The number of Champions League, La Liga, Copa del Rey and other cup championships is unclear. This means that Barcelona needs to continue to pay the remaining transfer fee.
In order to snatch Messi, Barcelona paid Riester a commission of 6 million euros, a salary share of 2.4 million euros, and gave Messi a signing bonus of 5 million euros. After all this, Barcelona will
It cost more than 60 million euros to bring in Messi. If the contract is fulfilled, Barcelona will spend a total of more than 100 million euros for Messi.
List was very excited. Messi has not made much money for List in these years at Eindhoven. That amount of money is not a lot compared to the money List invested in training Messi. But this
A transfer from Messi allowed Lester to earn an astonishing amount of money in one fell swoop.
First, they got 24 million euros for half of Messi's ownership, but of course they didn't get the full amount. Barcelona hopes to pay the money in two installments. This summer, Riester got 15 million euros, and the rest
Barcelona is willing to pay 9 million euros next summer. Then there are 6 million euros in commissions and 2.4 million euros in salary sharing. For this part alone, List received more than 30 million euros.
And importantly, there are some follow-up clauses. That is Messi's performance in Barcelona. If there are more championships, then List and PSV will continue to receive transfer fees. There is probably less to say about the subsequent transfer of List.
You can also get six to seven million euros.
This year is the year in which List has made the most money. Manchester City alone has brought List an income of more than 20 million euros, and Messi alone has brought an income of more than 30 million euros. It is already very simple, more than 50 million euros.
Nearly 60 million euros in income. This is only visible. Other things like player salary sharing, players' commercial income sharing, etc. There is no problem that List's income exceeds 100 million this year. After all, European football transfers
The market has not yet fully opened, and there are not a few players who will be transferred this summer.
But no matter what it is, this transfer has caused a sensation in European football. Many media are calculating how much money Barcelona spent and whether Messi can adapt to Barcelona. Can Messi, a super genius, bring Barcelona, which has been in a trough this season, back to normal.
