2023-05-08 20:36:16
The thing about signing Leo Messi is put in the headline because of what the SEO department informs us that the alleged signing of the Argentine by Barça generates great interest among the digital community. Actually this is an article that should be titled something like that LaLiga He does not trust the feasibility plan of the Barça entity. Perhaps too abstract, but more faithful to what is happening right now with the accounts that the employers are studying, extremely skeptical about the real possibilities of incorporating the Argentine or any other player.
Barça, like the rest of the professional clubs, presented a feasibility plan at the end of April on which it hopes to obtain an opinion next week. It still does not have the approval of the body that presides Javier Tebas. It doesn’t mean you won’t have it. You may be prompted to further detail some budget items.
The truth is that from LaLiga and the department in charge of financial control, Barça’s numbers are looked at with a magnifying glass. Not surprisingly, as Marc Menchén explained in his Sunday article in this newspaper, the LaLiga clubs have closed the 2019-2022 cycle with accumulated losses of 989.28 million euros, of which 485 million are exclusively attributable to FC Barcelona (49% of the total).
Benefits of about 250 million
There is an internal agreement in the employers’ association not to divulge the details of the Barcelona plan despite the journalistic insistence on the matter. It is admitted that the cut that FC Barcelona must undertake is not 200 million as was believed until now, but is close to 250 million. Cut back or generate more income. One of two.
He explained it last week Javier Gómez, general director of LaLiga, during the presentation of the economic report of the competition. “We have forced them to budget benefits this season of 250 million euros. If they do not meet that amount, the money they do not achieve will be reduced from the salary limit.”
The duties are hard and the paper supports everything. For this reason, the first thing that Barça must do, on a mission to rebuild bridges, is to convince LaLiga of his roadmap. The feasibility plan that he had to present is for the next two seasons. Based on the budget for the 23-24 academic year, LaLiga will calculate the corresponding salary ceiling; Based on the projection of the 24-25 course, he will analyze if he can commit to long-term signings.
From the employers’ association it is considered that the club is being protected with this rigorous policy despite being often seen as the great enemy. A rigor that, it is estimated, should serve to curb whims in the management of a very delicate economic situation.
Saudi competition
The newspaper Sport published last week an outline of how Joan Laporta’s board thinks reduce 200 million spending. 60 million in first team salaries; 30 million in professional sections and youth football; 30 million in daily operations of the entity; 10 million in cuts in payroll and non-sports salaries, and 70 million in the sale of players (¿Raphinha? ¿Ansu?).
How can it not be otherwise, the priority at the FC Barcelona offices is to register new contracts for Araujo, Gavi and Balde. Then would come those of Mark Alonso and Sergi Roberto. The one of Messi, Iñigo Martinez and GundoganIt will be seen, no matter how much the president has turned the return of Rosario into a matter of personal redemption.
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At the moment, to register all these footballers, and taking into account that the salary limit is exceeded, Barça can only dedicate 40% of what is saved in salaries to new chips. Much remains, then, to return to normality. And to incorporate Messi.
It is possible to accept that it is more than a challenge to compete with the 400 million per season that the Al Hilal from Saudi Arabia. There are unequal competitions and then there is this one. Messi’s current dilemma: a fortune in a dictatorship that shamelessly violates human rights or the endless uncertainty of Barça.
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