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news makers and talk about the stories that matter. on our sierra the little messy is want to football the biggest names, but the argentine ian is leading barcelona because the spanish club can't afford to keep. so footballers become too expensive and what will message departure mean for the sport? and the fan, this is inside source. ah, ah. hello and welcome to the program. i'm haven't jim john. leonor messy and barcelona as long and illustrious history together is now over. the argentinian was barely a teenager when he joined the spanish football club. rising to become one of the world's best players, he's also one of the most expensive earning an estimated $10000000.00

a month. ultimately, the partnership ended because of money. the club said, keeping their star would mean spending more than 110 percent of its revenue on salaries, which would violate financial rules in the spanish league. messy is now likely to move to paris as your mind, playing alongside other big names like name are and bobby will bring in our guests in a moment. first, this report from david stokes. the, you know, mess. he started crying before he even started speaking, get his farewell ceremony. 3 days after barcelona said they could no longer afford to keep him. he confirmed he was leaving and was given a standing ovation by the media and several of his teammates, past and present. and do up and so these last few days i was thinking about what i would say to day. but to be honest, i couldn't come up with anything. i was blocked like i am right now. i was convinced i would stay thousands of fans gathered at barcelona stadium to say good

bye to the hero who joined them 21 years ago. at the age of 13. standing when 35 titles go to club rec, or 682 goals. and it's been crowned the world's best player, an unprecedented 6 times. the messy had agreed to take a pay cut to stay, but barcelona still can't make it work. they say, because of salary kept rules in the spanish league. no say we don't go to college and see. i cannot talk for the club. the president says they cannot renew my contract due to legal. i can only say that i did everything possible to stay here. now without a club or a contract, messy is currently the most sought after free agent in history. paris centureman, one of the few clubs who can afford him and our favorites to sign him for reported $35000000.00 a season. it's certainly the end of an era but not the end of messy career. the 34 year old argentinian said he's going to carry on competing for as long as he can.

they've stokes al jazeera, the ban demik is biting into the finances of european football clubs. barcelona lost $117000000.00 in revenues last year, bringing its total debt to an estimated $1400000000.00. most of that came from renewing stadiums and overpaying players salaries have increased by more than 200 percent since the year 2000 barcelona has the best paid team in the world. the average salary last year at the league champions was $9800000.00. european clubs can afford paying that much by selling merchandise and broadcasting rights in the early $990.00 s. for example, the english premier league sold tv rights for nearly 280000000 dollars last year that amount increased to $7000000000.00. the. all right, let's bring in our guess in liverpool, karen mcguire, a football financed lecturer at the university of liverpool. in barcelona, jennifer civil spain corresponded for millennial tv and from new chatelle,

switzerland, rafael poli, head and co founder of the research group football observatory at the international center for sports studies. one, welcome to you all. and thanks for joining us today on inside story here and let me start with you today. could you have ever imagined that all of this would have played out that the way it has it does seem to have been very political. and i think everybody thought that there would be some sort of last minute reprieve. that would. ready enable would have enabled leonor bessie to have stated the loaner, but it appears that the application of the league arose has been in force and that left the club with no old sanitation, but to effectively release him from his contract and allow him to take his career elsewhere, jennifer, from your vantage point there in barcelona. what are the fans thinking and feeling right now? are they simply sad? are they angry about how all this went down?

what's the mood? yeah. yes. so that i was in time, no, i talk to defiance on our side. disappointed, angry they had been hearing for weeks that they have deal close. and if they pass is that, that even when they can hampton, how to teach old change, people is bad to not to trust a lap or when messy cries like that, leave a speech to do when he said both and know if the clue did it all and he didn't ask him to, to more, to have more chance that people change his mind a we need to remember that part of the camping beach was they continue a messy a and just they happens that happens. say, i think the supporters,

it starts to seal a port that we've and other eyes and a that's the thing i see just so the income though raphael does this, essentially all boiled down to barcelona, giving up its star player in order to try to repair its finances yes, certainly fantasy is that no mother of a money. matthew, a learning a lot of money, but not only math, you know, being the most you sign that any other more than a man more than just the united, the had a big deal to know that. so they had a bad management and working for them, and now they had to get up to the stop trying to get to be player probably before, but they had the back on track the which was not the case for masters leave. the end they have to surrender ration. karen does cutting messy loose

automatically help with barcelona debt load? well, it does in the sense that they've not known going salaries now. but the, the severity all be kept from the economic costs control in terms of off the line is ability to pay wages and make transfer over the course of the next 12 months is very, very significant indeed. and it is effectively made barcelona competitive with the likes of say less to 60 and west time in the premier lee can of course, pop loaner are used to being of the table so it will reduce costs. but how do you replace many se if you've got to spend money to have players of a high caliber and it's difficult to see how boss look software can do that. under the present cost control measures. jennifer, who do you think ultimately bears the most responsibility for what happened?

is it barcelona? is it legal or is it messy? i think at 1st i think i prefer to say the economy by keeping on day so badly. he rejects the day is on the sheep of her and we, these are the feel of new. we may see this up here are a completely, a of course the duty of diversity club is to speak that in here you are, the middle left in a reality is a they have not being able to sell yours to lower the siding salary, a 110 percent exceeded and a also can reach an agreement with, with they act all players to, to, to be in, in the clocks it was complicated like the to sign a contract. a like the finish leak starts in

a day. we can't seem possible to to do this in one week. i think a all day, all day points have a lot of all of the oh, where the story i've seen in these in the case, raphael, you know, obviously this is all quite complicated and there's a lot of variables in play here as far as how this decision is ultimately made, but barcelona is president mr. report to had said that trying to keep lino messy, could have put the club at risk for 50 years. and i'm sure there's a lot of viewers watching that are simply just, you know, really just sort of scratching their heads and going, how, how is that possible? i mean, how is that possible that keeping the star player could put the club at risk for that many years? yeah, very is brain to division and we were really at the top,

there was a club. wanted to have more than one be over here. but of course i did before they had to be wages and a lot of wages, matthew, but real minor then but a place where draw up are more than $100.00 euro each. so you can see that the previously back there was a very key to the lot young players from the training academy on the cloth. and these are, was the vantage for them replace the child. and yes, the rate of break of get the, of the for one of these plays the napkins there, but then they get from the point then for them they may be very attractive. now that you've been more than massey probably about to learn about, there's

a place that they have to be then and matthew real well, he's not the biggest reason and, and the bottom line is, remember, the finally we can florida between the former propriety. oh no. she's been the new one. so that's true. to be taken into account. karen, what is it that can ultimately justify the extraordinarily high salaries of superstar players like messy? is it simply a case of supply and demand the market place, or is it the marquee players are bringing in viewers, and that impacts you know, tv deals going forward? well, ultimately, the ability of a football club to spend money is determined by its ability to generate money. now that comes from 3 sources ticket sales, which blown up always been high up, has been hit by the pandemic. it's commercial deals and,

and the broadcasting rights. and it's the players that sell the broadcasting rights because they are the people that people want to shoot into. and it's also, it is their faces but commercial, their products along side. so therefore, i think you could argue that the salaries are justified, provided the clubs, the breaking even. we see we see huge salaries and other areas of all, especially in the u. s. and that's accepted as part of the game. the problem with football is it has been caught out by kobe, and i think the clubs such as barcelona and right on the trade, who had banks on the success of the super league franchise, had a problem when, when that collapse, because it left them with, with income, which was going to be lower than anticipated care. and if i could just follow up with you on a point you were making about cobit, i mean, how much has the corona, virus pandemic impacted all of this? how much more fragile is the economic situation for european clubs as a result of coven? 1900. it varies, varies from country to country,

because it's linked very much to the individual tv deals. so we take a look at the, the premier league in england because it has the biggest tv deal. it was less, less subject to the problems caused by kobe in other countries where, especially from switch the scene, it's tv deal effectively been scrapped and replaced by one of a much lower magnitude. i think clubs have been to get bubbles severely. and as far as spain is concerned, rail madrid and barcelona were both able to generate huge sums of money, not just from mac state tickets, but from the fact that stadiums are magnificent and they generate a lot of money on non match. the come as well. so the clubs have been hit by kobe because people attending matches and attending conferences and buying merchandise that the stadium was a huge revenue. and jennifer, you would also want to reply to that question about how much cover 19 has impacted

european football clubs. please go ahead. yeah, no, i just wanted to say that it's a huge impact in the football and i spanish would well, and we see in all the clubs, and that's the way that a, a break in like a join the like if learning it is as opposed to fighting to these, so paralegal to say one part of the day of the economy call the day of these clubs . brovio is all, this is sign. essentially the european football has just become too expensive. now we must say that for the last the decayed, there was the record and growth of the revenues of love because of the money from both past me by force of the globalization of the game. if you market the us,

china even been solved the not asian were in general. so these brought the really to be momentum for the banana of europe. one of them now things change was that by monday the came to our ration, but there were already signed that you are the biggest nice and i be car being and now we are plant lean the situation where the the, the maximum work re store are up lead there will be shown me for so the younger generation know which are perhaps i'll be more than the or to do to say better left in to pay my and he's got a lot of young. the korea even though was that was great. the fact

that the future problems here and you know, when we have these types of discussions around football, ultimately many people say that what's going on when it comes to salaries, when it comes to cost increases that are really highlights a growing disconnect between the big business of sport, and these communities of sports fans around the world. you know, kids in various countries kicking a ball around aspiring to be like their football heroes. ultimately, who owns football? ultimately it is owned by the fans in the sense that if, if there is a genuine disconnect, the fans will stop buying the merchandise they will stop attending the matches and they will stop paying the, the tv subscriptions. but while the, i don't think there's a lot of growth and we think it could be said that we have reached peak interest, and that doesn't necessarily mean the best interest is going to hold. if you, if you look at most matches in europe, what bumps crowds are allowed to, it's nothing matches still fell out, especially between the big clubs,

the individual lakes. and the idea that all is, is starting to be a dying sport. it is a mid because you even got to look at the number of young people who are buying kids who, who are playing for all acts at school and, and youth level. and that's being maintain that. and it could be argued that actually it's becoming a more diverse game, because certainly that's bob or interest in women's football. and we are seeing players come from all over the world to supply that trade in, especially in europe and, and in nature as well. and there's no reason why that cannot continue its competitive markets, but there's no reason why for count can base. it is ultimately the world's favorite sports. jennifer, when you speak to the fans, as you have been doing the past several days, i mean, do they believe that big business is running sport? the big business is running football,

or are they okay with the way things are going right now? no, it's not the way that that he thinks is going to be the football in the future because a don't want to see a all these a, a games a like a champion, sneak in in some places that they, unless they play years to win. some leaks a cops and, and make all these a, a player side know, happy to make these just what they shows at these kinds of trees and day. the fans sink a, it's too much is too much and they have to spend a lot of money because beef a be say,

championship cup. make a him to, to pay a lot of money. it to see his team to see a players like messy like a dinner and i look like a name and all of this is say like i more industry that the book can be at the, at the 1st time. raphael, what are the implications for football going forward if messy does as expected and signs with the paras, centureman, it will be agreed the. the 30000 hours may not end up the message. the incredible. so we book plans that can enjoy the band because the challenges all of them, but now of course, not always the best we know on they are the best,

but the other themes from being even bus, the loan of course they losing the dark. but recently where they're going very good. so probably they will need to have regional renee. this was the only way to do really have like the younger they are really performing was the new generation on their us. we see mass these already 30 or of course, less on the paper and operate on the tv to be around that we see, and i think this is the view because now is the time to play the game with the best care. and there was an announcement that was made that there was to be a massive private equity investment by the private equity firm c, v. c. they wanted to invest 2700000000 euros into la league and exchange for 10

percent revenue and 10 percent stake in most of its business. many thought that that investment would help ensure barcelona had the money it needed to keep messy. but barcelona said the deal would not be in its interests. why is that? why the objections to that? i think the objections, twofold, 1st of all, under the terms of the deal, only a relatively small proportion of the money from cdc could be allocated to players wages. so therefore, it wouldn't actually be addressing the, the player cost issues that exist, that box alignment. the 2nd reason is the boss alone to be believed, but the deal vastly on the values, legal and it's present full and also a could, could present some form of constraints in terms of boss lenders continue desires for the super early franchise project to work which they believe will concentrate money and power in the hands of the clubs behind, superbly. and therefore they would want to be able to keep 100 percent of that

profits probably giving 10 percent to a 3rd party. jennifer, there is a perception among some that barcelona perhaps through in the tao to quickly that maybe they should have pressured league or more in order to try to keep messy from what you hear from the fans. do they believe that barcelona backed down too quickly? i know, i think if, if i saw a prize that i did you out 1st a defense a thing that may cease to be in, in barcelona, the and then next to see sauce that a is all the way that is say weeks a tell that messy is gone and signed a contract for 2 years and then go to de united states like

a bus alone at teams and is like us or bryce is not week because a bill they spanish nice. it starts the weekend and about us i needs to present the 1st team and, and a, find all the papers and difficult to, to, to, to know in this case for the finance is to know if that makes a the best way to, to perfect barcelona economy. or not because a all the money that miss see when to the, to the club, if to important. and in this case is going to compete with that, we'd better sell on that if, if you go to the b, c,

g and the team would name out with the money on em. but there is, it doesn't go, it's going to be good to a team for the, for, for parties, and lay a suspect petite, to the, about the loan ass a found to when i know the champions in this case, because a is not happy. there france, i'm not happy with a act while a team meets. i know there's car needs a messy in in he's in his field. all right, we have run out of time, so we're going to have to leave the conversation there. thanks so much. all of our guest care and mcguire, jennifer, civil, and raphael, polly, and thank you for watching. you can see this and all of our previous programs. again, anytime by visiting our website, al jazeera dot com and for further discussion, go to our facebook page. that's facebook dot com, forward slash ha inside story. you can also join the conversation on twitter. our

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