De Jong advised to sue Barca
"De Jong should consider the legal action against Barca, and the remaining players should support him. A club swinging money to recruit rookies, while not paying enough salaries for the players who own the ownership The contract is contrary and violated, "Neville wrote on Twitter on July 25.
The former British defender also called for FIFPro - a representative of professional football players - intervention, in order to end this compression situation.
Barca is carrying a debt of up to 1.5 billion USD, as a result from former President Josep Bartomeu. Even so, they still shop frantically on the transfer floor this summer.
Collecting nearly $ 300 million by selling 10% of La Liga television rights to Global Investment Company Sixth Street Partners, Barca spent $ 58 million to buy Rapinha from Leeds and $ 45 million to buy Robert Lewandowski from Bayern. . Earlier, they also signed a contract with Franck Kessie from AC Milan and Andreas Christensen from Chelsea on the form of free transfer.
Barca then activated the second economic lever when selling 15% more La Liga television rights to Sixth Street investment fund in exchange for $ 400 million. As a result, the La Liga runner -up is likely to beat Chelsea to recruit midfielder Jules Kounte from Sevilla for $ 66 million. Barca is even targeting two other goals, the duo of Chelsea Marcos Alonso and Cesar Azpilicueta.
However, Barca has not been able to register the rookies and must streamline the squad. They agreed with the proposal of 75 million USD, with 10 million USD of Man Utd's surcharges for De Jong, but the Dutch midfielder was refusing to leave.
In addition to Man Utd not to attend the Champions League, the problem of this deal is also in Barca's debt De Jong $ 20 million. The 25-year-old agreed to postpone the salary to help Barca solve the financial difficulties due to the influence of Covid-19. According to Independent, even when persuading De Jong to Man Utd according to the $ 85 million deal, Barca still owes the midfielder about $ 12 million.
Barca is traveling in money in the US. On July 23, they defeated Real 1-0 thanks to the long shot of rookie Raphinha. This match, De Jong reserve and pointed to the second half. During a trip to the US, Barca had two matches against Juventus on July 27 and New York Red Bulls on July 31.
