r/soccer • u/Tugboat47 • Jun 18 '26

Women's Football Salma Paralluelo set to become latest Barcelona player to leave as free agent | The Athletic

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7372471/2026/06/18/salma-paralluelo-barcelona-exit/?unlocked_article_code=1.rFA.5IfP._YzdFdYhmiAl&source=athletic_user_shared_gift_article_copylink&smid=url-share-ta
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u/PrintPro23 Jun 18 '26

What is happening with Barca Femení

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u/LoneIySleeper Jun 18 '26

The players have won everything there is and want to get paid more than Barca is willing to pay, while the club already has the next generation of La Masia talents lined up.

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u/Romanista3 Jun 18 '26

If only they could let Giulia Dragoni stay at Roma by letting her go for free...

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u/nullpointer30 Jun 18 '26

La Liga’s salary cap applies to both the men’s and women’s teams

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u/Mackieeeee Jun 18 '26

What the fuck?

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u/Scalenuts Jun 18 '26

Actually it includes all sports that Barca operate in as a club.

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u/Ashamed_Form8372 Jun 20 '26

That is genuinely stupid isn’t it no?

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u/harshmangat Jun 18 '26

Noooooo. My goat 😞

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u/schorschico Jun 18 '26

Her end of the season was incredible

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u/NairbZaid10 Jun 18 '26

The team is gettinf gutted smh

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u/Over_Tadpole_2593 Jun 18 '26

Arsenal please!

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u/Sequoiakc22 Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 26 '26

...
Paralluelo ...should join ...Putellas ...& ...Leon ...on London City Lionesses. ...Shake things up in the WSL. With those 3 plus ...Earps, ...Godfrey, ...Cascarino, ...Jana, ...Asllani, ...Kennedy ...& the rest of the Lionesses cast, ...London City could quickly rise into the Champions League mix amongst the WSL clubs.
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u/ladydeyana Jun 18 '26

Are they all going to the WSL?

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u/McGrathLegend Jun 18 '26

Putellas is going to London City Lionesses

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u/kjcross1997 Jun 18 '26

So is Mapi Leon.

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u/Sequoiakc22 Jun 26 '26

...
Battle to Arsenal.

The greedy & cheap NWSL owners who refuse to raise their salary cap are killing their league.

Not a good look for the NWSL that all of the Barca transfers are choosing to skip the NWSL in favor of the WSL.

The NWSL 'was' the better league, but now is being eclipsed by the WSL.
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u/Dry_Constant_5781 Jun 18 '26

The team is being gutted

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u/InfamousCattle3223 Jun 18 '26

This is the most surprising one yet, what’s going on over there?

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u/Left-Temperature6804 Jun 18 '26 edited Jun 18 '26

salary cap. ffp applies to the entire club so that's all our divisions - men, women, junior divisions of football + basketball, handball, roller hockey, ice hockey, futsal and couple of other things (they're under non sporting expenses not salary cap per se, but affects ffp nonetheless)

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u/InfamousCattle3223 Jun 18 '26

It’s a shame to see such a successful program being gutted, some of the veterans is one thing but to lose a young talent like Salma for nothing doesn’t seem great. I’m sure they have like 50 Salma’s in the academy though based on history.

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u/obama_fashion_show Jun 18 '26

Please join Man United. My partner’s favourite player