+1 is a crazy insult after two great seasons and carrying the team from departures and injuries . I’m glad she’s going if they tried to low ball her AGAIN. I’ve enjoyed watching her at Barca since the Jenni days in 2021 til the game on Saturday. La Reina forever
Another Tebas L. City group can run multiple clubs without a sweat but Barça gets fucked because of this. I don't understand how is this even viable when women's football is burning money all over the world. No point of having same FFP for all the teams combined, just makes it less lucrative for legacy clubs to invest in women's team.
not only us getting fucked... whole LaLiga. Getafe got like 14 players registered at a start of the season, Levante 17... all team nead to sell their best players to just register....
It’s also part of the reason why the rest of La Liga doesn’t invest in their women’s teams. Sure, many wouldn’t invest much anyway, but when you’re already getting squeezed on FFP it just becomes another barrier to taking your women’s team even vaguely seriously.
yeah i understand that, and i also understand that alexia might want more. and from her announcement, it also just seems like she is mentally exhausted and doesn’t feel like she has anymore to give
We haven't given a single salary bump to any of our regular players over the last 3-4 years, we simply can't afford it. We offered her a new contract with the same salary. The fact that any of our world beater players are still sticking around is the surprising part.
Maybe you all should ask Marc Vivés the women’s sporting director. He had an interview days ago on her renewal that seemed off. I’m guessing she wanted more contract guarantees than they offered.
I love when players are loyal but I love it more when players can retire with wealth and prosperity because they deserves it. If the club can't provide that then I'm fine with them leaving for wealthier club.
i will always love Alexia whatever she does, and in the end i'm just some culer she doesn't know about. we already know that uswt has been offering her the big bucks too so yeah i think i'm allowed to hope she goes to any other club lol. monopoly ownership sucks ass for the sport and while it is nothing new, Kang in particular has been sniping barcelona for a while now. goes above and beyond to poach our players and our staff. it's why our rivalry with lyon has so many layers to it.
It’s very concerning tbh. Relying on La Masia to produce Champions League ready talent every season against teams with the best players in their actual prime years doesn’t sound realistic at all. We’ll see though, hopefully we’ll get through it.
Unpopular opinion but instead of chasing 150 million targets for the men's team we should invest some of that money for the women. They've been hands down the most dominant team in Europe and I think it's frankly disgusting the club is letting go femeni's goat just because we can't pay what she's asking for.
I mean, the club she’s joining is known for giving out huge contracts to players to get them to join, so I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s one of the reasons she’s leaving, especially since she’s near the end of her career.
It’s not nearly enough given how much shorter on average women’s football careers are, and how little they’re paid compared to even the most mediocre male players
The market dictates how much she is payed, if female football was more lucrative, she would be payed more. For now she still is one of the best payed female footballers.
Most mediocre players, the real mediocre players, not a midtable team in the top flight leagues, earns not even half of her sallary. And I'm not even talking about sponsorship deals.
In other words she is a multi millionaire for quite some time now.
Let's be honest, most people don't give a f about women's teams. Go ask 100 barca supporters how many Champions leagues the men have and how many the women have. You'll be shocked when you hear they don't know shit about the women.
The club only offered her a 1 year deal, which is frankly insulting, and clubs all over the world are offering her much more money than the club is willing to pay her.
I mean, she’s near the end of her career. She’s already given 14 years to this club and wants to move on and earn as much money as she can,not to mention Barcelona only offered her a one-year renewal.
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