Do you want him to reduce his salary because of the condition of the team? Not all players can do that. They will have gotten a good pay like this elsewhere but decided to stay here and play for them despite their financial condition which can affect their own performance also because if there are no good players to play alongside them, they’ll all fail as a team and won’t make them happy to do better next time and be looking for means to leave the club. Barcelona needs to fix their financial crisis to be in a better position for any competition they’re participating in, the claim shouldn’t be put on any player collecting big pay or not.
So why is Frankie de Jong still not for sale? If you really want to fix the financial crisis, of course something has to be sacrificed. I think it is realistic to sell de Jong, who with his sale can provide some relief to improve the team by utilizing the sales proceeds to buy players who are desired but whose prices are still affordable. They want Nico Williams now because many rumors say that if they want to bring in Williams, Barcelona will receive FFP sanctions. Lewandowski is old, ideal to be replaced by a younger generation and suitable to be paired with Yamal. This is a consequence that Barcelona must take in order to avoid sanctions and increasingly messy finances. Totally improving finances is not a good solution, and Barcelona will not be able to do it other than improving little by little.
If Barcelona cannot get rid of the financial gap, they will have to sell some players. Frankie De Jong may be one of them. Lewandowski can contribute a lot to them, but his economic obligations are too much. The contract price is too high. Maybe they can sell him to Saudi Arabia this year, of course, if Lewandowski wants to. I think they should bring Williams to the team to be better in the Spanish league.
I agree with you that Lewandowski should be sold to Saudi because he has declined in form and is receiving a huge amount of money that can be used to buy a new player and put the rest in the club purse. Financial management is very important in business otherwise, you will be financially down due to wrong financial decisions.
De Jong is still very vibrant and active, the club needs him and selling him might leave a loop hole in the club so I will not support the idea of selling him, only if they have seen a proper replacement for him. Barcelona currently needs financial breakthrough.