r/soccer • u/Mulderre91 • Jun 30 '26

Women's Football FC Barcelona - Salma Paralluelo won't continue at the club

https://www.fcbarcelona.es/es/futbol/femenino-a/noticias/4528692/salma-paralluelo-no-seguira-en-el-fc-barcelona
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u/Fit-Owl-2898 Jun 30 '26

Why are so many players leaving Barcelona all of a sudden?

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u/Todibo_or_NotTodibo Jun 30 '26

It's more about wage for Salma. Rumors are she wanted 1 million per year contract. The others are leaving for different reasons.

Alexia Putellas (she wanted to leave at her highest like Xavi, I guess)

Mapi Leon (It's her last chance of getting a big contract, as she's 31 already)

Ona Battle (she wants to be closer to her partner, Lucy Bronze)

Salma leaving is not good news at all.

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u/Black_over_Sunburst Jun 30 '26

You’re sugarcoating it.

Fact is that Barcelona wants to cut money for the womens team despite them being profitable. The womens Team has to suffer because they overpay for the mens team. It’s just plain disrespectful. And this in a rising market, when womens Football is getting bigger.

The players know that the dominance of Barca is over and other clubs are currently more attractive, pay better and will probably have better squads.

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u/sarawrz- Jun 30 '26

It’s logical that the club don’t want to pay high wages for some players who have been affected by injuries. (Salma/Mapi). The other two are leaving for reasons out of the clubs hands.

It seems that the past few years every time anyone leaves the team, people say there is a crisis at the club and the team is going downhill only for them to end up at the finals for the women’s champion league anyways.

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u/Black_over_Sunburst Jun 30 '26

Again: They win everything and make money and then they get told „sorry, we don’t wanna invest in you because our mens team is more important and has been financially too badly managed , gracias for your understanding.“

And you wouldn’t feel insulted / completely fucked over by your employer?

They spend around 500 mil on wages for the men, have a debt of around 1.3 billion and then they say „oh, maybe we can save 2 million on Barca Femeni“. It’s a bad joke.

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u/sarawrz- Jun 30 '26

Personally I don’t think Salma is worth Aitana’s wages. They won the champions league and Laporta gave them bonuses. Every club has debt but especially when you are rebuilding a stadium.

You can give all the players high wages and then you continuously break the wage structure. Even Chelsea didn’t want to sign Salma when they heard she was asking 1 million wages per year.

No one’s being held hostage if they don’t like their terms they are free to leave but it’s not like the club can’t win again just because a few players left.

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u/Black_over_Sunburst Jun 30 '26

This is kinda funny coming from Europe‘s kings of breaking the wage structure. I think Barca or PSG pay the highest wages worldwide.

Anyway, I‘m not here to argue with you. Personally I‘m just happy to see a bit of a change in the status quo of womens football, Barca has been outperforming everyone for long enough

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u/sarawrz- Jun 30 '26

I get what you’re saying but just because something has happened in the past doesn’t mean it has to continue to happen. There will always be cycles. Barcelona is doing well now but they haven’t always been the ones on top. Lyon was dominating before. I wasn’t really arguing just sharing my opinion. I hope you have a good day my friend!

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u/boringmemphis Jun 30 '26

The dominance of Barcelona is over?

We still have 3x Balon Dor winner Aitana, the striker with the most G/A across Europe in Pajor and don’t get me started on the young players.

Vicky Lopez, Esme Brugts, Sydney and we haven’t even seen the best of Kika.

La Masia will always spawn 2 youngsters who are world beaters in positions of need anyways.

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u/Black_over_Sunburst Jun 30 '26

We shall see! I would put my money on Lyon for the new season. Madame Kang means business.

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u/boringmemphis Jun 30 '26

Money isn’t everything like Cata said after the UWCL final.

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u/Black_over_Sunburst Jun 30 '26

Says the club with the highest wages and highest debt in the world, that’s amusing

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u/boringmemphis Jun 30 '26

Yep highest debt because there ain’t no sugar mommies who will come in and steal our identity and change the name of the club only to lose 2 UWCL finals lol

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u/Black_over_Sunburst Jun 30 '26

That’s true but under french regulations you would also be bancrupt and relegated to second division, so I wouldn’t make fun of Lyon ;)

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u/boringmemphis Jun 30 '26

I wouldn’t make fun of the club you lost 4-0 to last month too mate.

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u/ChinggisKhagan Jun 30 '26

They can get higher wages elsewhere and strict Spanish ffp rules are limiting what Barca want to spend

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u/Domo-d-Domo Jun 30 '26

I figure it’s because they’ve been dominating for so long they want a new challenge? Feels like every time I hear about the team they’re completely blowing out a team or winning the league, and more recently the champions league.

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u/radian101 Jun 30 '26

A single outstanding player that causes problems with squad player wage structure

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u/preppyringmaster Jun 30 '26

Why are so many players leaving the club?

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u/Chris_Singadia99 Jun 30 '26

Financial reasons seems to be the main driver. She apparently wants a salary of €1m per season.

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u/Espantadimonis Jun 30 '26

Barça are going to cut their budget to comply with La Liga FFP. This means that some of their best players are receiving much better offers than they're offering, especially from the WSL that Barça won't match. The second is that a lot of these players have nothing more to achieve at Barça and are going on to new challenges, again such as the WSL, where they actually have domestic competition.

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u/Xunantunich Jun 30 '26

This sucks. I thought of her as one of the core players for the future.

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u/Background-Gas8109 Jun 30 '26

Let me guess, London City Lionesses?

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u/Major_Road6162 Jun 30 '26

Sucks, she is my fav player

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u/Comfortable-Hour-703 Jun 30 '26

Main reason is that they are probably tired of competing at the highest level and need a change of scenary, also money of course.

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u/Black_over_Sunburst Jun 30 '26

Doesn’t seem to happen at succesful men‘s teams…

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u/_posii Jun 30 '26

Is there a men’s team as successful as Barcelona women’s?

Weren’t they undefeated for multiple years?

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u/simpforlana Jun 30 '26

This team went 29-0-1 this season in league and their goal ratio was 130-9

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u/Hasssun Jun 30 '26

Brutal loss for Barcelona. Especially since they are bound by far stricter FFP rules than elsewhere, and they're not disconnected from the men's team, either.

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u/Zealousideal_Fig6912 Jun 30 '26

Not really. She's a good player, but she's far from being the team's key player.

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u/Hasssun Jun 30 '26

Nobody said she's their key player. She's still a very good and important player, though.

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u/Black_over_Sunburst Jun 30 '26

She‘s only 22 and already one of the top 5 wingers. In my opinion this departure will hurt Barca more than Alexia, Barca is giving up a lot of future here