@theninja39@NoodleHairCR7 Lol. Neymar PFP.
Neymar at ST -> Vini and Endrick pushed to wing -> no midfield def support anymore as Martinelli had to come out for Neymar =
Norway began playing through midfield with more ease.
Haaland began getting more touches. Scored twice. Good talk.
Barcelona lost Messi in 2021 because they were โฌ1.2 billion in debt and La Liga slashed their wage cap from โฌ347 million to โฌ97 million. The emergency fix was fielding children. Four years later those children won La Liga, and one of them carries a โฌ1 billion release clause.
The cap crisis meant Barcelona couldn't register signings. Academy kids on entry-level wages were the only players they could afford to put on the pitch. So Lamine Yamal debuted at 15 years and 9 months. Pau Cubarsรญ debuted at 16. Gavi, Pedri, Balde, and Casadรณ all got minutes a healthy club would never have risked on teenagers.
Then the desperation play turned out to be the best roster strategy in football. Yamal joined at age 7 from CF La Torreta, a local youth club. Transfer fee zero. Barcelona turned down a โฌ250 million bid for him. He made 106 senior appearances before turning 18. Messi made 9.
The cap math makes it even better. Real Madrid operates with a โฌ761 million squad cost limit. Barcelona's is โฌ432 million. They won the league anyway, because half the starting lineup was developed in-house at academy cost.
Messi's final Barcelona contract was worth over โฌ500 million. His replacement cost nothing.
Those 11-year-olds in the video are the next batch. A pipeline that began as a bankruptcy workaround is now the entire plan.