This is an exceptionally low value!
FC Barcelona signed five new stars this summer – but paid almost no transfer fees. Only Oriol Romeu (31, came from FC Girona) cost 3.4 million euros.
Ilkay Gündogan (32, Manchester City), Inigo Martinez (32, Athletic Bilbao), Joao Cancelo (29, loan from Manchester City) and Joao Felix (23, loan from Atletico Madrid) all came on free transfers. In return, Barça took in over 100 million euros through sales.
One of the newcomers also waived a particularly large salary – and in relative terms plays for a ridiculous sum!
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Joao Felix’s salary at Barca is just €400,000
As reported by Pedro Morata from “Cadena Cope” and several Spanish media, Joao Felix receives a wage of just 400,000 euros for the entire season. Converted, that’s just about 33,333 euros a month – in today’s top football an almost ridiculously low value.
English media reports that Felix previously earned around seven million euros at Chelsea while on loan from Atletico Madrid. This means that the attacker now receives only about six percent of what he received last season!
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Background: Barça have to save due to ongoing financial problems. In addition, the Spanish La Liga sets a strict salary cap that the club must adhere to. Otherwise, newcomers cannot be registered, and there is a risk of point deductions.
However, Felix’s mockery salary is only of limited use on this point because, according to the Spanish newspaper “Sport”, La Liga still calculates a salary of four million euros for Felix for reasons of financial fair play, even if he actually only receives 400,000 euros.
Felix had more or less forced his move to Barça. At Atletico, where he joined from Benfica for around €127m in 2019, he was unhappy and didn’t get along with coach Diego Simeone.
Speaking to transfer insider Fabrizio Romano, Felix said: “I would love to play for Barça. Barcelona has always been my first option and I would like to go there. This has always been my wish since I was a child. If that happens, it would be a dream come true for me.”
In order to fulfill this dream, Felix was apparently willing to take exceptionally high wage cuts…
2023-09-05 21:14:59
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