FC Barcelona may have very little room for maneuver during this summer transfer window.
Back to the presidency of Barça, Joan Laporta inherited a dramatic financial situation. If he intended to replace the club at the top of Europe, a place forgotten since 2015, the task promises to be difficult. Barça is drowning in debt. The context is really not ideal at the time of negotiations with Lionel Messi. Barcelona have completed the arrivals of two free players, Sergio Aguero and Memphis Depay. For lack of being able to do better? The door to a departure does not even seem closed for Antoine Griezmann or Ousmane Dembélé. La Liga president Javier Tebas warns: Barca must sell this summer if they keep the Pulga. In Spain, the payroll must not exceed more than 70% of the club’s income, while that of FC Barcelona reaches 110%.
“If Barcelona want to extend a player who costs him 25 million euros per season, he must obtain – via transfers or a salary cut – 100 million. La Liga’s economic control rules, approved by clubs seven years ago, set rules that Barcelona know about. Unfortunately, the club are starting from a debt situation of 350 million this season, more than half of the total in Spanish football. This penalizes him, as the current contracts exceed the threshold granted by La Liga. Therefore they have to drastically lower wages or generate income through player sales. They know that if they don’t cut costs and sell, they can’t buy anyone ”, insisted Javier Tebas during the program El Transitor on Zero Wave. Barça will have to make concessions in the coming weeks. Some European clubs should not hesitate to draw from the Catalan workforce.
