“At the beginning of July, the departure of Piqué and Griezmann will mean a saving of 90 million euros,” he said Mateu Alemany, football director of the Barça club, whose essential objective is to place the salary mass of the squad in a range that goes from “450, 460 or 470” million euros after receiving it in the summer of 2021 of 510 million that were Actually, 655, including adjustments and deferrals. An unsustainable figure in the short, medium and long term.
“If we reach 400-480 million, it would be 60% of the income, which would mean reasonable figures,” argued the Barca executive, insisting that Barça does not need to part with “important players” to improve and strengthen the template this summer.
With Griezmann’s goodbye, the club enters 20 + 4 million for its sale to Atlético and saves 102 million in tab
The objective is to reduce this unsustainable figure by 180 million, which would allow, according to the club, to get closer to the parameters set by FIFA, since next season’s budget could be around 800 million. In the 60% that said german, 10 points below the 70% established by FIFA. Although the fair play set by the League does not only count the salary mass of the first team squad but also the entity’s spending.
In this sense, the march of Griezmann against Atlético de Madrid has had a positive impact of 126 million euros. On the one hand, Barça has received 20 plus four options for the sale to the rojiblanco club and, at the same time, saves 102 million in tabs. The transfer of Coutinho He left Aston Villa 21 million in addition to another 36 for releasing his salary, with which the club quantifies everything at 57 million.
❝In summer we will strengthen ourselves. We will be prepared to respond to the needs that Xavi requests from us. If the team needs to be reinforced, we will do it. But we have a powerful team❞
– @JoanLaportaFCB – pic.twitter.com/uRKg08F5GF
— FC Barcelona (@FCBarcelona_es) February 9, 2023
The president maintains that if they sell players it is by the will of the club, the coach or even the will of the player, despite the fact that those considered, according to Alemany, “strategic” will not be on the market. And he will have the economic capacity, despite the restrictions of ‘fair play’, to reinforce himself in the next summer transfer market.
“In the summer we will strengthen ourselves. We will be prepared to respond to the needs that Xavi requests from us. If the team needs to be strengthened, we will do it. But we have a powerful team”, commented the Barça president, admitting that there are offers for young players, Ansu type,
“We have bought for 215 million and we have sold for 141. There is a competitive team for 74”
Laporta, president of Barça
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Laporta maintains that there is no “such obligation” to sell this type of player, despite the strong salary restrictions imposed by the League with its fair play, requiring the club “titanic efforts”, according to the president, to complete a competitive squad that conforms to the law.
“We inherited a salary limit that was greatly exceeded, with an excess of 300-350 million that made sports management difficult for us.” At the end of this 22-23 financial year, Barça will have reduced salary costs by 100 million (90 million belong to Piqué and Griezmann), but it is not enough. “When we made the levers, the League changed the regulations,” said Laporta, who said that “we have bought for 215 million and sold for 141. There is a competitive team for 74,” he said proudly.