Ozil is not gone .. Why do clubs struggle to get rid of their excess players?

Lingard is still at United, Dele Alli will decorate the Spurs stands for several months, the most expensive goalkeeper in history will sit at the Chelsea bench and will earn 150,000 euros a week in exchange for that, Ozil will be paid $ 350,000 every week to enjoy watching Arsenal's matches from the pitch, and Manchester United will pay About 550,000 euros a week for the goalkeeping center only, and it appears that the top England players are suffering from miserable management failure.

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In Spain, Gareth Bale finally agreed to leave Real Madrid, even if on loan, James Rodriguez also moved to Everton for a small amount, some sources say that he almost went out for free, this duo who cost Real Madrid 200 million euros only a few years ago, In the other pole of Spain, things weren't much better. Suarez, Ractic, Vidal and Arda Turan came out and the club made only 5 million euros from selling them, although they cost the club 150 million euros years ago, and Umtiti and Osman Dembele will sit in the club's clinic for the next year, probably and they will get at the end. The year on salaries of 25 million euros, a catastrophic administrative failure of course for the two poles of Spain, but hey, it seems that it is not just an administrative failure, and that there is a villa standing with us in the room that we can no longer ignore.

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The summer market was not very lively this year, but it was reasonable, and several major deals were present, Kay Havertz, Timo Werner, Van de Beek, James Rodrigues, Alan, Leroy Sane, Robin Diaz, Thomas Party, and many names were the most prominent headlines throughout. Transfer period, but other transfers did not take place, and while everyone paid attention to the arrival halls, the departure halls were more crowded.

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- Arsenal (@Arsenal) October 5, 2020

In order for the big teams to secure money for their new contracts, they aspire to get rid of their redundant players at the highest price, until Havertz and Chilwell came, Chelsea needed to get rid of Drinkwater, Emerson, Marcos Alonso and Victor Moses, and until Van de Bic arrived, Phil Jones, Marcos Rojo and Jesse Liang had to leave Tottenham tried to sell Sergey Aurier and Danny Rose to secure the arrival of Doherty.Everton also had a large list that included Alex Ayoubi and Gilfi Sigurdsson, and most of these players are not so bad, and most of them are able to add in several clubs around Europe, but they did not find anyone to buy them, and he represented Their exit is a major obstacle to their clubs, which made Richard Jolly, editor of Four For Two, wonder: Why do clubs have trouble getting rid of extra players?

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Without a doubt, the Corona virus and the financial crisis that it created seem a clear answer to the question, clubs do not have a lot of money because they lost a lot in the past period, and they are afraid that they will burden their treasury with obligations and salaries in the coming period because no one knows when the status quo will end, and the return of the public who will secure Some money does not seem close, so the clubs did not risk entering into these deals, and most of the clubs tried to meet their needs without making major deals, so many people did not buy the players of the big teams.

Taking a full season's match day income for 2020/21, assuming similar cup progress to 2018/19, the combined losses over the two seasons would be £ 837m.

Highest at #MUFC £ 141m, #AFC £ 109m, #LFC £ 97m, #THFC £ 97m, #CFC £ 75m and #MCFC £ 71m.

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- Swiss Ramble (@SwissRamble) September 24, 2020

The exit process of players to China also stopped after the imposition of new taxes and laws to attract foreigners inside China, which for several years represented a suitable place for clubs and players together, huge salaries and very good transportation costs compared to what could be paid to these players in Europe, and their exit and similar markets such as the Gulf countries and the League The American market was more limited than ever.

According to Laurie Wittwell, editor of The Athletic, financial losses were already a major reason complicating the exit of players, and despite the large sums spent during the transfer market, there is a real financial crisis, and most clubs suffer from financial problems, especially in lesser leagues such as The German, French and Portuguese, which prevented many clubs from entering the market this year, but he also believes that this was only part of the answer, because the crisis is not a result of this year, but rather an ongoing show that we have been following for several years.

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When did this show start?

Not at a specific moment, but a long journey that began with the transformation of football into professionalism, passing through the defining moment when the Bosman Law was promulgated, and then the entry of money clubs for football, and all of this coincided with the rise of the current of capitalism as a model that governs the whole world, not just football, and the result was the same. On the world, football, and its summary, as Harvard economics professor Richard Freeman said: "Capitalism's policies have improved billions in income, but have focused billions in the pockets of the few."

According to Alex Hess, editor of FourForTwo, this is precisely what happened in football. Over the years the current situation has formed, whereby capital has been concentrated in a limited number of clubs that do not exceed the fingers of two hands. These clubs compete for deals every season, and take possession of all The talents in the market, and by virtue of these talents, clubs win championships and gain more rewards, so they return to buy other talents, then increase in strength, then win, win money, then buy, and so forth.

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With the entry of Gulf clubs in particular to the conflict, money appeared to be the only factor in attracting these clubs to talent, and new standards were imposed on the market, and the rest of the rich clubs were forced to meet these standards to remain in competition for deals, because a little extra money will not make you prefer Paris over Barcelona, But a lot of it does, which has pushed players' prices and salaries to unprecedented levels and shrunk Europe's top ranks to a minimum.

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- Paris Saint-Germain (@PSG_inside) November 5, 2019

With time, all talent was concentrated in these clubs only, with unprecedented salaries and benefits, and the rest of the clubs remained far from this conflict, feeding on its remains or moving in one way or another to compensate for the material differences, and despite the attempts of many clubs to spend to keep up with the current situation, it was not It is easy to overcome the great gap that has occurred.

Quite simply, this was the second answer to Richard Jolie's question, the rich clubs have accumulated a lot of players and are not satisfied yet, but are still seeking every season to settle a number of new deals, either due to a real technical need or just to keep pace with the demands and constant desire of the public for new contracts, and since they are Simply you are limited to a list of 23 players and you want to provide salaries for new deals, then this creates a surplus of players that you want to sell, and when that happens, everyone is surprised by the result of what they have done for years, the gap between the elite clubs and the rest of the teams has increased, and the rest of the Clubs match prices and salaries.

According to Alex Hess, editor of ForForTwo, when players of elite clubs think about leaving their clubs, their destination is extremely narrow, because their prices for which they came are greater than the capabilities of the majority as well as their salaries, even when the club accepts to sell the player for less than his price to One of the second-row clubs, it collides with the obstacle of the salary that the player completely refuses to give up until the end of the contract, which none of the teams can secure for him, so the clubs sometimes have to contribute to paying his salary after leaving, or leaving him to go out for free as Barcelona did with Suarez Recently, to get rid of his salary, otherwise they have to pay the full salary without benefiting from the player, as the case of Ozil and Gareth Bale, for example.

L'Inter acquista Alexis Sanchez a titolo definitivo dal Manchester United ma non pagherà alcuna cifra di indennizzo.

Il cileno arriva gratis e guadagnerà 7 milioni all'anno netti.

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- Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) August 3, 2020

Salaries?

Perhaps this is the problem of most urgent European clubs these days. The clubs did not realize the magnitude of the crime they committed for years until now, when losses imposed on everyone to save expenses, and everyone discovered that salaries eat up most of the budget, and that they must rationalize it, which prompted Barcelona, ​​for example, to Getting rid of Suarez, Vidal and Rakitic, even if for free, because securing their salaries is the most important goal.

On the occasion of Barcelona, ​​the team is a clear example of insane salary inflation, Griezmann charges the club with taxes amounting to 40 million euros a year, de Jong, who has only played a single season in his career, costs them about 20 million euros, Busquets, who is not considered one of the top 10 players in his position in the world It costs 15 million euros and Messi reaches 100 million euros. Only 4 players annually cost the club 200 million euros, a number that exceeds the total salaries of most European teams.

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In order to realize the gap, the total salaries of Villarreal, the fifth La Liga players last year, amounted to 33 million euros, Sociedad VI 35 million euros, Granada VII 14 million euros, and even outside Spain, clubs such as Lyon, Bayer Leverkusen and West Ham do not exceed the 60th annual salary bill. One million euros, Atalanta, who reached the Champions League quarter-finals last year, pays only about 30 million euros a year.

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Clearly, #RealMadrid wage bill is a lot higher than other Spanish clubs (with the exception of their Catalan rivals).

It is the same as the bottom 12 clubs in La Liga put together.

Or, looked at another way, it is more than Atletico Madrid and Sevilla combined.

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- Swiss Ramble (@SwissRamble) October 29, 2019

This is a giant gap between clubs that clearly provides an answer to Richard Jolie's question that we started with the report, and this is a clear reason for the inability of the major clubs to sell their players, because the salaries of other clubs never convince the players, and most of them do not accept to waive all this difference in salary even if it is At the expense of his career and his participation, which makes the exit very difficult.

Although the clubs are the most affected by the giant salary bills, they can no longer back down from this foolishness, because the players demand equality with their colleagues, and because the new players are bargaining for the salaries offered by other clubs to get the highest number, according to "The Athletic" Manchester United faces a problem in negotiating with any new player, because the players refer to De Gea’s salary of up to 400,000 pounds a week to get a similar number. In Chelsea, young players are demanding large salaries, similar to Hudson Odoi, who did not provide anything to the club. He renewed his contract for 120 thousand pounds a week, taking advantage of Bayern Munich's desire to annex him as a tool of pressure on the Chelsea administration, and thus salaries created a major problem in football, the beginning of which was the stupidity of administrations.

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Departmental stupidity?

Perhaps this was a comprehensive title and a definitive answer to the question from the beginning, who caused so many players offered for sale at the same time, and why did all these players accumulate over the years?

The reason is simply that the administrations have been entering deals and buying players for years without considering the techniques or the player's suitability to the team's playing style or the desire of the coach, so the player comes and after one year the management discovers the fatal mistake that it committed, then enters the market and brings another deal, and since most departments do not understand him in Football, they believe that players are more important than anything, and that a lot of good talent within the team means more championships. Simply, the complexities of tactics and technical aspects do not concern most of them.

Of course, as a soccer player, Beckham is better than Makelele, so if we take Makelele out and put us in Beckham, the team will play better. This is how Perez thought when he sold Makelele from Real Madrid, and likewise most club bosses think, and if the team fails there is no problem, the coach is said and comes Change him and buy several new players, and then we will win, which will inevitably happen one day, then the administration will make sure that it is right, so it continues with the same approach.

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Iniesta leaves, so the Barcelona administration brings Coutinho with 160 million to compensate him, and then after several matches it discovers that he cannot do that in any way and thinks about loaning or selling him, Neymar leaves and buys Dembele for 130 million euros, so he rarely participates. A million euros to replace him, then it comes and then you discover that he specifically needs Suarez next to him in order to shine, so simply you discover that you spent a billion euros in the last 5 years without doing anything or improving the team.

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The matter is not in Barcelona alone, Manchester United, Chelsea, Real Madrid, Juventus and Paris suffer from the same problems, albeit to lesser degrees, and it seems as if the large number of money hit these clubs lazy, no smart contracts, no long planning, no ongoing projects, just more money and more players .

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According to "The Athletic", one of the main reasons for the presence of so many players in the big club sales lists is the administration's reluctance to dismiss coaches. Thus, a large number of players face problems with frequent change of coaches, and they may not adapt to the new coach, so he excludes them. The coach is part of his squad and requests others, and so on every year.

You can see the difference between Liverpool and Manchester United, for example, Liverpool has only one or two players in its list that wants them out, unlike United who wants to lay off almost half of the team, and the reason is clearly Jürgen Klopp or rather, a long Liverpool project. The period that began 5 years ago, in contrast to the confusion that has occurred in the Demon Castle since Sir's departure.

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- Liverpool FC (@LFC) October 7, 2020

And the loser of it all?

Football is simply the biggest loser, it would have been better for everyone that players such as James Rodriguez, Gareth Bale, Jovic, Isco, Riyad Mahrez, Bernardo Silva, Canselo, Coutinho, Griezmann, Dembele and others had dispersed over the European teams instead of staying on the bench all last year. From the excitement and fun of the game, the excitement that the game built its glory and reputation on and is now threatened.

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Now the senior players of the game discover that they need to create a balance for their own benefit first and for the sake of football secondly, and that they need small clubs to rid them of the extra weight in their teams, and that the disruption of the game system and the separation of some clubs from others will harm everyone together, and the first thing he will do is decrease Competitiveness and excitement, which means less viewers, and therefore less broadcasting money, and the game will inevitably deteriorate, and at that time the rich will lose much more than others, and football losses more than everyone else.

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