New Contract For Messi

[tomthered]

I appreciate this is very much a first-world problem, but I'm really keen to hear other people's thoughts:

I'm about to go into the year 2022 on my Barcelona save, and the final year of Lionel Messi's contract. He's currently earning £1.2m per week, but when I tried to offer him a new deal the maximum the board would allow me to offer is £625k (even though I've got a spare £2m in my wage budget).

Unsurprisingly, Messi said no.

Is there any way that anyone can think of that I could persuade him to sign a new deal? Seems a bit daft to let him go on a free when he's still knocking in 30+ goals a season.

[Smurf]

Can you adjust your transfer budget to maximise your wage budget?

 

Often with older players, if you wait 6 months their wage demands will lower.

[IbrahimAliMaher]

On 06/06/2020 at 23:45, tomthered said:

Seems a bit daft to let him go on a free when he's still knocking in 30+ goals a season.

Is he over 32? Give it six months and your coaches will probably rate him as 'a decent player for Segunda División B' the way physical stats tend to go 

[tomthered]

On 07/06/2020 at 09:43, Smurf said:

Can you adjust your transfer budget to maximise your wage budget?

 

Often with older players, if you wait 6 months their wage demands will lower.

Turns out all I needed to do was wait - with 5 months left on his contract he dropped his wage demands by 600k!