It is no secret to anyone that the FC Barcelona going through a difficult financial situation And there are few options for the summer transfer market if it does not generate extraordinary income and make sales in the first team, as well as salary reductions. The azulgrana team, as it exceeds its salary limit, continues to be governed by article 100 of the LaLiga Budget Preparation Rules.
It has been something that the president of the employer’s association, Javier Tebas, has clarified once again, who has expressed in ‘MARCA’ that at Barça they will only be able to “Sign by the 1/3 rule. If they take out players for 100, you can sign for 33. If he carries out asset sales operations as I am seeing, he will reduce those losses and if he compensates them, they will go to the normal 1-1″, adding that the Blaugrana “have designed a strategy and it is the one they are applying. Let’s hope for the good of football and the League that they achieve their goals.”
The Costa Rican has highlighted that from LaLiga they are not happy with the situation that the azulgrana are going through, but the rules are there to ‘save’ the clubs from getting more indebted and avoiding major consequences. Thebes pointed out that “We don’t like this situation, but football’s responsibility is increasing. There are no guarantees in football anymore. And if a club sticks a cake, it is said that the League has not done its control function.
Thus, if Barça’s economy continues as delicate as it has been up to now, the azulgrana will have to cling to the ‘1 to 3’ rule, which can be used for those players who represent 5% of the total cost of the squad. As Tebas explained, if the club manages to generate revenue of 100 million euros, it will be able to use 33 to sign up a new player, taking into account the cost to the wage bill.
Tebas sees Barça capable of recovering
The president of LaLiga has also referred to the fact that he sees Joan Laporta’s board of directors as capable of reversing the current economic crisis: “If it works on the line, Barcelona is a great club that is going to get ahead. I do not have doubt. Barcelona, in economic terms, is a money-making machine.” adding later that “the cause of these losses, we must think that part was as a result of COVID, part of operating losses and part because provisions for amortization of players have been anticipated who did not have to have made them. And they also anticipated some lawsuits that should not have been “.