BarcelonaThe elimination of Barça in the Europa League, relativized from a sporting point of view, is another hard economic blow for the Blaugrana entity. Joan Laporta’s board budgeted 20.2 million euros of earnings in Europe anticipating that Xavi Hernández’s team would reach, at least, the quarter-finals of the Champions League. Thus, once eliminated from this competition in the group stage, the hope was to advance as many rounds as possible in the Europa League. Conquering it would have meant a prize of 14.4 million euros. But after the defeat at Old Trafford against Manchester United, Barça will be far from these figures and will have to settle for 6.5 million for their two victories against Viktoria Pilsen and the draw with Inter from Milan In other words, the Barcelona club will enter 13.7 million less than budgeted.
trip to the antipodes to plug the economic hole
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