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FirstbornWds:
He knew he was in Koeman's black book, not pushing for a move then was just him wasting his time.

How would he know this?

All he did was took the manager's word as a challenge and wanted to prove him wrong but Koeman took it as an offense and refused to give him a look even as a rotation piece

jpmoriarti:
When people make arguments that's not based on facts but pure emotional, it is easy to pick holes in it.

Anyone blaming Koeman, is just being emotional. Fact is Riqui Puig destroyed his own career with his own hands. He has only himself to blame.

This is just wrong and it's a weird way of appealing to authority.
Puig wanted to stay and fight for his place in the team. That's a great attitude that Koeman took offense at

FirstbornWds:
Na just naiveness go make anybody no understand say Koeman was behind Puig's decline. It's an obvious fact but then, the player himself made a mistake. I really hope he finds his feet. Such a talented lad diminishing because a particular person's pride felt hurt.

Can you really call wanting to fight for a place in the team mistake?

andrewbaba44:
Koeman put you for bench and you no fit leave Barca ?

Yes. I agree he should have left but it's not wrong that he wanted to stay and fight for his place especially when him show lots of progress the season before.
It's not his fault hedid not know that Koeman is a fragile egomaniac that took him not leaving on loan as an act of defiance and decided to punish him..

andrewbaba44:
Koeman did nothing to this boy

Why miguenza no join la galaxy self ?

Kid will be flexing with pique clubbing all night instead of him to ignore that

Why can’t we blame xavi ? Koeman no rate puig and xavi also ,but we should only blame koeman because puig is very talented

Is it not clear that this man isn’t good enough ?

Koeman put him on the bench for a year plus. Puig should have gone on loan but don't act like koeman did not Bleep him.

Koeman benching him is even more outrageous when you think about the season he had under setien back then. Lol

FirstbornWds:
�| FC Barcelona are clear that within a year, the salaries of all the players must be within a set limit. At the moment, there are seven players who have incredibly high salaries. @fansjavimiguel

See Fati. Lmao. Person wey never get up to 30 starts in his career.

And Una go dey scream love and shit when players like gavi and Araujo wants to earn more

BlaqFaze:
I saw on Daily mail(one of those English crap) his salary was 360k pounds per week which should be around 400k euros aside deferred wages

Frenkie? It's definitely false

andrewbaba44:
So kessie pedri and gavi no good

I think you are new to this thread ,go and check how I use to defend frenkie here

Man is earning de Bruyne salary ,but cannot give us consistent performance

Where did you get that from. Lol . Nawa oh. Una dey muzz me for this place

FDJ original salary is btw 200-250k per week. KDB is on 350k.

FDJ salary will be higher next season and the rest of his contract cause he decided to help the club and defer his wages. Something that only the club Captains were the other guys that Did it.

FirstbornWds:
Why is this one salty?

English media dey salty. It's not just him.

FirstbornWds:
Why is this one salty?

English media dey salty. It's not just him.

andrewbaba44:
Gavi in Barca last season was better than frenkie

Kessie looks like he will win xavi heart ,then wahala go Dey for frenkie

Gavi was not better than frenkie last season. Gavi played way better than expected due to his age and all but he was not better than Frenkie

Y'all hate Frenkie all you want.

It will be extremely stupid to go with Washed Busi, kessie, Pedri and gavi as our midfield options sha.

And no, I don't count Collado and Pablo Torre

andrewbaba44:
Busi is leaving at the end of the season and won’t start all games

What spectacular thing has frenkie do since he joined Barca ?

E go reach important game ,even gavi self go outshine am at times

Busi will start all the major games and 80% of games this season
I think you are mixing Gavi's performances under Lucho and Spain with his performances in Barça.

andrewbaba44:
If you like type from now till next year ,the team will not play to suit lord frenkie

Let me correct you. Xavi won't drop busi. Hope it won't come back to bite us sha

andrewbaba44:
Imagine what alemany would have down with neymar 222M euros

No Coutinho probably.

Oldboss:
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At least he is doing what Fartomou didn't do and it either frenkie take a paycut or he should go cause I don't see him succeeding in this team. this could be our best time selling him

even though they way his issue is being treated is bad but the club can't pay him, if he leave our wage cap would be free

Outdoing Barto is not an achievement. Dude was terrible all round.

I see him succeeding in this team and I think the only reason we should let him go is if we are getting Bernado. I still don't trust Kessie/Gavi to handle that third midfield position full time.

I agree he should take the cut but not this way. It should be on his own terms and not an ultimatum. He has a contract.

Kilishihunter:
My brother You win abeg, I don taya to repeat the same thing over and over again, Fdj is the best and everyone else is at fault, Enjoy bro

Lol boss..we go dey here

potland:
who is kang again? Nitori olorun

This my brother don Bleep up. No miss Loki season 2 sha and The new ant Man movie.

Read up on him and watch the first season of Loki too

Culer:
if I talk wetin dey my mind now you go say I dey insult you.
Frenkie cannot play as a single pivot. Our midfield will be bypassed and smoked if he plays there lol.
He loves to drive forward from deep and he's not very good defensively. Frenkie has to play in a double pivot to flourish and we don't play that way.
Mate, We can't change/alter our formation and jeopardize other players because of frenkie

There's no set formation. Barça should play according to the needs of the squad as long as it is possession based attacking football.

This is the last reply from me tho. It's clear you can't hold a convo online without insults so make we just clear each other way

Kilishihunter:
Well the fault is on abidal for not doing our scouting job properly, Bringing in coutinho a no 10 who loves to have a free role to come and play in central midfield or a griezmann who's a supporting forward or RW who also loves to have a free role too when Messi was there already
But also remember when Pedri got injured in the europa league and we had to rely on gavi and fdj for the rest of the season, Didn't you notice how we were stiffled in midfield? Most of our play predictably came through the flanks from either dembele or Alba/Alves cause ferran became more redundant, While busquets has been a burden physically in our midfield it still doesn't disguise the fact that we suffer without his balance while fdj hasn't most times been able to take charge of the centre when it's been handed to him

It's not even on abidal. Coutinho and griezzy were Barto signings.

That was on Xavi tho. Most of the creativity even when we had Pedri was from the wings.
Ferran was playing his role perfectly bar the finishing. Making runs and dragging the FB for Alba to put balls into the box.
FDJ has never been handed the midfield under xavi. He has never even being the interior. The B2B role is the worst midfield role for him yet he is still making it work. It Will all be clear when the season start sha. I hope he is still with us and he takes the cut but on his own terms

It's even much more clear when you compare his performances with Holland to Barça. He looks more like himself with them.

Culer:
as in ehn. We should change formation because of frenkie lol
I don rest for that guy matter.
He's prolly a frenkie fanboy.

Frenkie fanboy. Lol. Do they exists? I'm saying drop busi.

If frenkie does what's best for frenkie, he is a villain and does not love the club. If Barça does what's best for Barça, it's just business. Lmao.

Do you sha. He talk frenkie fanboy

Culer:
I don't know what you're saying, wingers have always been important to xavi's setup (I keep reiterating this point!), dembele was a perfect specimen and he Shone brightly . Man had the highest assist in the league with just half a season. Hello? When fit, He's very important to this Barca, and the jury is out for him to stay fit and show what he's made of.



Messi didn't have a contract with Barca, but it's Messi we are talking about here, arguably the greatest player of all time.. And we let him go.

Dembele showed brightly after not when xavi insisted he won't put him in the stands. Adama was even playing well in that period.

Messi did not have a contract. End of story. He has no case. He is not a Barça player. Frenkie has a contract, he should not be blackmailed into anything

Kilishihunter:
And we are back to this issue like the last time out, Fdj's deferred salary from 2020 is to be added to his future salary from next season, 4m each year till he renews or is gone, If it was for the deferred salary alone that made him not move, you think he, his father or agents wouldn't have sued barca like neymar since? The clauses and bonuses in his future restructured contracts are enough damage already talkless of an added 4m per year which Laporta hasn't given any indication of not paying
Dude's trying to clean out his predecessor's mess but he's being painted as the devil, Is it easy to run and sustain a top football club with no individual wealthy source?

Sue Barça for what? He has no case till next season when it officially kicks in. Neymar's own was Barça not paying him is loyalty bonus which he was not eligible for..
Again the bonuses if they exist, frenkie should be approached not blackmailed by leaking his contract to the press to put pressure on him.

Laporta is a politician and a liar. He wants frenkie to let go of his deferred wages plus paycut or get sent to a shit house like United

Kilishihunter:
When was it stated he could not play DM before we signed him in 2019? Why were some of our fanbase chanting he'll replace busquets? And FYI fdj has given us some of his worst performances as an interior reason why you see Bernando Silva's name popping up from time to time in our transfer dealings,
Again we don't have to change our formation just because fdj is not as comfortable as others without a double pivot, so what happens to other players then, can busquets, pedri, gavi play double pivot? If he can't fit in he should go to another team that fits his profile bro
And nobody paid 80m for him to just be good today and go missing tomorrow, he was brought to set the world on fire just like he did at ajax, are you not seeing pedri?

Lmao. Anybody that watched Ajax in the CL and saw how he played would have figured frenkie can't play as a lone DM. He is fine as an interior tho but guess the role xavi has been playing him in. Same fanbase that were chanting Coutinho as iniesta replacement or griezzy as a number 9. I tend to ignore the majority on matters like this boss.
Yes, you paid 80M for him. The least you can do is not play him in a position that will expose his weakness. Attacking the box for crosses and acting as a body upfront.

Pedri/Gavi plays as the advanced playmaker and we move on from busi who is already a major liability on defense and the glaring weakness in our eleven.

Culer:
you been living an a cage or something? Dembele was literally the most important player for us making the top four last season. Traditional wingers are very vital for xavi's system, it's why it looked as if most of our plays went through him. Why'd you think xavi fought tooth and nail for him to stay? I can't say same for FDJ

he loves the club but he put his interests and demands first. Laporta and the board are putting the club's first over any player now so why y'all crying foul?

mate, frenkie wasn't the only one who differed his wage stop acting ignorant to push your narrative.

I don't even think the differed wage is the issue.
So you really believe laporta doesn't know that frenkie can sue the club for owing him wages and win the case easy?

Frenkie's required to reduce his wage so the wage cap can be loosened, players can be registered, and very high wages curbed due to the precarious situation of the club's finances OR just leave the club entirely.

If we could let Messi go for a similar issue, who's frenkie?

I'm gonna ignore the cage part. I won't stoop to Insults. I believe we are adults here

Dembele as at when xavi insisted he won't drop him when was he was just recovering from an injury and we had supposedly signed his replacement in adama. It was not down the line when his performances unproved.

Messi did not have a contract with Barça. Frenkie has. Totally different situations

Culer:
you been living an a cage or something? Dembele was literally the most important player for us making the top four last season. Traditional wingers are very vital for xavi's system, it's why it looked as if most of our plays went through him. Why'd you think xavi fought tooth and nail for him to stay? I can't say same for FDJ

he loves the club but he put his interests and demands first. Laporta and the board are putting the club's first over any player now so why y'all crying foul?

mate, frenkie wasn't the only one who differed his wage stop acting ignorant to push your narrative.

I don't even think the differed wage is the issue.
So you really believe laporta doesn't know that frenkie can sue the club for owing him wages and win the case easy?

Frenkie's required to reduce his wage so the wage cap can be loosened, players can be registered, and very high wages curbed due to the precarious situation of the club's finances OR just leave the club entirely.

If we could let Messi go for a similar issue, who's frenkie?

Yeah. The Captains. Only them.
The deferred wages is obviously the issue. It is built into his salary. Laporta wants him to let it go and take paycut

He is not required to do anything tho. He can be appealed but he is not required. What laporta is doing is literally blackmailing him

Kilishihunter:
You're still speculating then, Btw lemme ask you where do you think the links about his deferred wages came from? Fdj's camp or Barcelona?

You are the one speculating. Everything out there has been about frenkie slashing his next season salary which includes his deferred wages

It's obviously laporta. He leak the wages to put pressure on frenkie and damage his reputation with the fans. It was even later reports of it including his deferred wages came out.

He made it look like Barto was paying Fdj 17M per year

Kilishihunter:
Ok i quoted you out of context, sorry for that
Fdj was supposed to be the leader in our midfield, the successor to iniesta, I'm sure you remember the trip to Japan where he met him and glowing similarities to him were spurn by the media but 3 years down the line we found out that he can't play as a lone CDM nor be giving us consistent performances from time to time, plus also seeing his best performances coming in an orange shirt as a second midfielder in a double pivot, Barça has always been playing with a CDM from the days of Cruyff which has given us much success so why should we switch it just for one person?
I have always defended fdj even with the constant streams of evidence staring me right in the face but I can't anymore, No matter what we say, Point is he hasn't lived up to his huge price tag and promise

We did not find anything out 3 years down the line. It was always stated that Frenkie can't play as a like DM. We brought him to play as an interior but Koeman and xavi have been playing him in the B2B role.

And lol at the 433 obsession. Cruyff was all about p attacking football through possession. We can play it with any formation. 4213 or even 352. It does not have to be 433. Pep was a Cruyff scholar yet he learnt to set his formation according to the needs of his team.

What evidence? Frenkie has not lit the world on fire or anything like his Ajax days but he has been good for Barcelona

andrewbaba44:
FDJ is earning 300k plus weekly baba

FDJ has gotten higher pay day since the day he set his foot at Barca at age 22 ,araujo is 23 years already

Frenkie is on 200-250M per week.

Frenkie was the most sought after midfielder in the world when we signed him. He was in the Uefa team of the season and uefa midfielder of the year.

Wetin Araujo get? ��

Kilishihunter:
I don't see how that's a problem when he' hasn't really delivered on his promise and has been giving us mixed performances, I'm talking bout his main wages not the deferred cut this time

I'm pretty sure the main issue is the deferred wages. It has been restructured into his salary which is why he is going to be earning 400k per week. Laporta wants him to let the deferred wages go and take pay cut

Kilishihunter:
We signed him at age 22 he's now 25 but we should wait for him to be given time without pressure after 80m+ paid that we have not finished paying ajax when they are hungry younger talents looking to take any chance they get to break into the first team, If we're being honest bro it's just pure love from the fanbase that's making us not to put him in the same category as coutinho and griezmann, Pure love

The time was for the pay cut boss. Don't take me out of context boss

If you want to maximize frenkie. Play Him right. Even as he is.. he is only second to Pedri in that midfield.

No lmao.. griezzy and Coutinho were awful signings even before they kicked a ball for Barcelona

Culer:
difference is dembele is actually a very crucial piece of xavi's set up, if not the most important.
De jong hasn't lived up to the hype from when he first came to Barca. He's not done anything to be the highest earner in our team and he's not even important to this team.

People are saying he loves the club, which kind yeye love? Did you know that de jong and his agent used PSG to get a higher salary from us back then? He almost went to PSG until fartomeu increases his wage offer. It's why his wage is this high. So I don't pity him and I don't buy this "he loves the club" talk

Lmao at that excuse. I like how confidence pre season makes boys sha. When season start, e go clear.

FDJ does love the club. What he did was try to get the best possible offer for himself. That's perfectly normal. Even Messi did this with the liking Chelsea Instagram pictures in 2017.

His wage for next season is quite high cause he deferred his wages which he did cause he loves the club. He could have easily turned Barto down. Did you ever wonder why it was only the caps + Fdj that deferred wages?

No amount of love can make you let go that kind of money easily. It Will take time and he should be given time without pressure