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Real manages their payroll very wisely, they use their authority and find a middle ground so that players want to play in their team and not overpay their salaries. Perhaps Xavi's desire to sell Lewandowski was appropriate, so they could improve the payroll, which was to the benefit of the Barcelona, Lewandowski is no longer as good as before but still receives very big money. In conditions of financial problems, everything matters, and you need to think not only about how to do without new transfers, but also about how to cut costs within the team, including the unreasonably high salaries of top players.
Real Madrid is known to be very clever in managing its finances, several of its star players are able to make a good contribution to the team even though the salaries they receive are not too large. Just look at the salary Mbappe earns at Real Madrid, the amount is lower than what Lewandowski and De Jong earn, as well as Vinicius, who contributed greatly to Real Madrid success last season.
Barcelona pampers its players too much with high salaries, one of the most striking being the salary received by Lewandowski. Barcelona should be wiser in managing its finances and paying players' salaries according to their standards and age. If Barcelona releases De Jong and Lewandowski, perhaps the club's spending will be much more economical and the money can be used for other needs so that the financial crisis they are experiencing does not get worse. The nominal salary that Lewandowski receives is clearly unreasonable, Barcelona should be more realistic in paying players and in my opinion the salary that Lewandowski receives should not be more than what Vinicius earned at Real Madrid.
Real Madrid has been able to maintain their financial balance even though they continue to bring in star players, so far I have never heard of Madrid having problems with their finances and that is one thing that we should praise for their ability to manage financial management so far, a large salary is actually not a problem as long as they are able to maintain a balance between the current team income and expenses, but this is different from what Barcelona did before, in fact they seem very ambitious to become the greatest club in Europe, so they continue to spend a lot of money recruiting players, but unfortunately their income cannot match their expenses, so the effect is like what we are seeing now if Barcelona is punished for their financial violations and also very bad financial problems.