The Barcelona icon, the Argentinian Lionel Messi, left the team early last year, after it turned out that the problem was so great that it was necessary to get rid of him so that all the other players could be registered in the league to play in the team. The world has turned upside down from Catalunya, because the new management has created such conditions that Barcelona is once again sifting through money with two hands, but how is this possible in such a short time? This is what we tried to navigate now.
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Is Barcelona in Csd or not?
The club’s management did a lot to help Barcelona fail, but the fans don’t have to worry, because a club of this size will not disappear in the blink of an eye, and it seems that even Joan Laporte, the club’s current president, is the one who blames the fans when he tries to solve the club’s problems. to solve.
For the time being, there is no chance – luckily for everyone – that Barcelona will start spending as much as they did a year ago, when they acquired Philippe Coutinho for 145 million euros, Antoine Griezmann for 120 million euros or Ousman Dembele for 105 million euros, but overall in the situation, when it was necessary to fill the holes caused by debt, Laporta chose an unorthodox solution, and now in the first days of August, Barcelona has spent more than 150 million euros on new players.
With the appearance of financial difficulties due to the coronavirus in relation to Barcelona, you could hear that the club is in bankruptcy. Many people did not even believe that the problem was big, until they saw Messi begging for forgiveness from his only club until then, and barely a year passed, and Barca started signing young players.
In the past, Barcelona couldn’t keep up with the best teams in the world, but that seems to be over now. Robert Lewandowski, for example, was not spared 50 million euros despite the fact that he only had one year left on his contract with Bayern Munich and at 33 years old, he is no longer considered the next man, and the salary will also increase the first time. The Catalan team paid the Brazilian Raphinhr 58 million euros to Leeds, but the French defender Jules Kound, who arrived from Seville, also bought 50 million from Xavi’s team.
Franck Kessi from Milan and Andreas Christensen from Chelsea were also received for free. The contract doesn’t burden the coffers, we might think, but in today’s game market they are considered serious players, who have to pay a very serious fine, and for the time being, this does not mean a reduction, as does the breach. Although Philippe Coutinho finally left for Aston Villa, he already played football in the previous half-season, but Francisco Trincao, Scar Mingueza, Dani Alves, Clement Lenglet, Adama Traor and Luuk de Jong also left, but the two were only in Barcelona.
The club’s previous president, Josep Maria Bartomeu, left Barcelona in 2020, then he left behind a huge debt, which Barcelona continued to push in front of him. In the past two summers, Barcelona had a restrained presence in the Tigola market, only Ferran Torres’ Tigola fee reached 50 million euros. The math isn’t hard to figure out, Barcelona spent much more than they earned. The loan match of Antoine Griezmann and Miralem Pjanic was also decided in order to reduce the deficits, but Barcelona was also in serious trouble, not primarily because of the debt, but because of the rules of fair play in Barcelona.
As the only Spanish team, Barcelona had a negative balance of payments, was struggling to win, and could not even pay its players. In the interests of this, it was necessary to reduce the salary of several players, but there are also footballers to whom Barcelona owes a lot. The corona virus really closed the door for Barcelona, as the biggest stadium in all of Europe and one of the biggest fan clubs generated several million euros in revenue on match days, but in 2020, the season of the Lazers, this too had to be cancelled. Due to the postponed and then closed goalkeeper match, ticket sales and sponsorship payments were also missed, but the players’ wages had to be paid, so we got to the point where Messi had to go and to the point where Barcelona’s offer exceeded one billion euros.
Laporta knows the solution
At least that’s what it says. Barely a year ago, Barcelona had to declare a loss of almost 500 million, even recently, Laporta also talked about the technical failure of the club, which is punished as an economic corporation. The club paid 1.3 billion euros for the win, and when all the people who are hungry would pay attention to their debts, Laporta decided that the best person would be the club.
Barcelona used all the assets it could dispose of, which resulted in a profit of more than 700 million euros, and thus managed to balance the balance sheet. It should be known that according to the rules of the Spanish league, a third of the income can be spent on certificates and salaries, while the rest must be used to settle debts. From the above section, players are practically covered.
Also on the agenda is the multi-billion eur plan for the stadium, financed by Goldman Sachs, which, in accordance with the trends, has already received a sponsor name from Spotify, but the band also became Barca’s shirt sponsor, naturally, significant sums came in from there as well.
The big meeting knocked out the confidence of Barcelona’s rivals, Bayern München didn’t know exactly how they could get Lewandowski away from them in the match, and they were even more upset than Chelsea, because almost all the names (Lewandowski, Kound, Raphinha) are from the notebook of the Catalans apart from that, Christensen was taken away by Barca, and they still haven’t given up on the captain of the London team, Csar Azpilicuet either. The club membership of 150,000 did not look at the processes taking place at the club with a good eye either, but Laporta’s assistant knows exactly what he is doing.
“I don’t gamble, I take precisely calculated risks,” said Laporta, who was elected the club’s president for the second time last year, after the previous manager had to leave as Barcelona began to decline both professionally and financially. Many expected a slow start, but Laporta seems to have chosen a different path, and according to him, he has no choice but to win every summer with Barcelona.
According to the news, Laporta collected 500 million euros by selling a part of Barcelona’s TV rights for the next 25 years to an American investment fund. This means that the other owners of the Spanish champions will have to transfer 25 of the 25 cents to the Catalans. It was also revealed this week that Barcelona sold a part of its own production company, with which it earned more than 100 million, but the outsourcing of more clubs is also on the agenda.
Instead of paying off the debts, the club invested a part of the money in new talents, with the certificates mentioned above. According to Laporta, this is an exciting process, because it is only possible to earn serious income if the team brings results. The strategy is the same as it was during Laporta’s first presidency, between 2003 and 2010, when Barcelona had one of the best teams in history at their disposal.
“There were huge opponents with us and even against us, and that period was very successful. “All the Barcelona fans in the world, more than 400 million people, we expect similar successes,” said Laporta, who also took over a losing club in 2003, with so much difference that at the time it was a minor league.
At that time, it was so much easier for the club managers that they did not have to put the expenses under strict limits, compared to today, when the league strictly regulates how much of the income can be sent to pay the players. And here we come to what is the biggest obstacle to Laporta’s revolutionary plan. The league has already announced that it will not give Barcelona a single concession in the interests of compliance with the rules, and it is no wonder that the team has not yet been able to register the player’s certificates, for this further financial tasks must be solved.
According to Laporta, this will not be a problem either, because the decisions made will lead to results. Laporta is able to make such financial maneuvers because it is always popular among the fans. A manager of Bartomeu’s caliber would certainly work in this situation, but Laporta is currently seen in Las Vegas advertisements and is still negotiating with the management of Real Madrid and Juventus regarding the European Super League. Laporta’s role is unquestionable at Barcelona, almost a personal cult has developed around him. Almost everywhere in the club’s management are now people from the cheese, so it is not difficult to get your decisions right, and it is incredibly popular among the fans as well.
This is not the case with the players either, with whom he has developed a great relationship, it is no coincidence that he managed to convince almost all of the big names to reduce their salaries, which in many cases also means millions of euros. Laporta praised those who went into the salary cut, and he constantly worked to send those with stellar salaries to the club so that they could be caught under the salary cap, but this is not the most pleasant thing to do.
We know for sure about one player who will not go into the reduction, even though it is the Dutch Frenkie de Jong, who Manchester United would very much like to take, and in this case, maybe Barcelona is also hoping that the 25-year-old Dutchman will finally say yes. De Jong became Barcelona’s footballer in the summer of 2019 for 75 million euros, now Manchester United would pay roughly the same amount, but De Jong would prefer to stay. Laporta’s error has already publicly asked to reduce his salary, this has not happened yet, and Barcelona already owes him 17 million euros in salary. De Jong said that he loves the city, the club, Laporta also said that he loves De Jong, but he has to help the club by taking a pay cut, which is why both the league president and the players’ union “teared” Laporta, who all he could say was that they naturally fulfill the terms of the game contract.
Barcelona’s current situation may turn out to be as old as it was during Laporta’s first presidency, but there are many factors of uncertainty. Obviously, it is not possible to predict what this squad will do in the championship or in the Champions League, just as we cannot yet know what Xavi will be able to get out of the players after a full season’s work. Barcelona at that time became one of the best teams of all time, which continuously won trophies, but precisely because of this, the team’s superstars also had to be paid well. Lionel Messi is the best example of this, whose Barcelona plyafutsa finally became such a contract that, in addition to the losses, could not be included among the league’s sables. Messi’s situation became untenable, so he had to go. Radsul could transfer to the Paris Saint-Germain team for free, but it was enough for the club to get rid of the ban just then.
At the same time, Laporta is back in your campaign, right now he is talking about how, if everything goes right, he will try to bring Messi back so that he can retire from the Barcelona team. The other question is how much Messi is willing to do this, since he also regrets the departure as if he had stood behind the team and his playing father, who is also our asset, has now asked Laporte not to speak publicly about the matter.
The extent to which Laporta’s plan works will be revealed in the future. It has to do with the fact that the more successful the team is, the sooner it will recover financially, but there is no guarantee of success. It will also become clear later how much the TV fees will be worth after 25 years, and how much it will cost from the spending at that time, how much money it was worth to invest such large sums on young players like Lewandowski, Raphinha or Kound, and it is also a question, how much Barcelona will be able to support the fans in the current, more difficult economic situation.
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