Lol, Piqué saying that he's doing the selfies thing simply because he's bored 🤣
He said a teammate was talking to him about getting engagement on Instagram and stuff and he'd never used Insta like that so basically decided to do the selfie thing as a joke because he was bored and he'll stop... One day 🤣
On a more serious note he said that the future of the club relies on the academy in order to be able to compete with clubs with state backing and that the coming generation of talents is amazing.
He also said that he was super happy for Barça Femení last season and that women's football needs more investment and backing and to keep growing ❤️
Lol IDK what Ibai was telling him but Piqué said "don't joke around, dude, I'm playing for 4 bucks now" 🤣
It's 12:30am in Barcelona, why is Riqui visiting Piqué at this hour? Lol
Now he was talking about the penalty not called yesterday against Madrid but that was called today against Atleti and he said that he has to take care what he says this season because if he gets fined for talking about this he's gonna end up losing money 🤣
Ibai: "Geri has a nice house, huh, Riqui?"
Riqui: "Yeah, it's great, but I'm not sure he'll be able to pay for it this year" 😭
Arnau Tenas (Piqué called him the next Victor Valdes) is also there, 2 other guys too, IDK whk they are. Y'all should be sleeping, you're professional athletes, it's late! 😅
Piqué saying he'll do this after every game. Which would be something.
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Gonna translate a bit of what Pique said on his Twitch last night.
Pique: "Today was a day full of emotions, first of all because we had our fans with us again, even though there were just about 20k. It's been about 17 months of playing in empty stadiums and the truth is that hearing people again is amazing...
When you have fans with you all the time you take it for granted and maybe you don't put that much importance on having the fans on your side when you're at home or the adrenaline you get from people being against you when you're away from home...
Anyway, just got home after 2 weeks and have nothing to eat or (more importantly, considering the circumstances) drink. So I'll just go do some shopping and hopefully the mundane life tasks will get me through this. One day at the time. I've done it before.
OK, so here's how the story makes sense in my head.
Laporta wins the elections, talks to Leo, they agree he wants to stay and will work on a new contract. The new board starts looking at the finances of the club and get more horrified the more they look at them.
The Superleague mess happens. Which means thag Barça are now allied with Madrid and Juve in this legal fight that will go on for years against UEFA and their national leagues. Not sure being allied with FloPer is a good thing in essence, but it is what it is.
Club still has no money, wage bill way over the limit even without Messi. They can't make the numbers work. Tebas says he'll try to help (this is me speculating that Tebas would try to take advantage of Barça's finances to get them on his side) and then shows up with the CVC deal
Funny to me to keep seeing people say "can't blame players for not taking a paycut, they have contracts" when last year my company asked us to take a temporary 10% paycut because they didn't know how the pandemic would affect us and like 95% of us did that.
Like, sure, they don't have to, they have short careers, they signed contracts and it isn't their fault they got ridiculous salaries. But if someone told me that in order to keep the best person to ever work at my company I'd lose a bit of money I'd probably be fine with it.
Maybe it will happen, maybe the agreed paycuts still wouldn't have been enough. And, again, this isn't their fault or their responsibility. But... It's not a great look.