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A day of numbers, accounts and comparing one with the other. LaLiga informs the Primera and Segunda clubs of the squad limit they have until February, when it will be updated with the winter transfer window. With all eyes on Barcelona, whose delicate economic situation has meant that it has gone from having 648.8 million to pay its players in February, to having to adjust with 270, or what is the same: the club has less than half the money to pay its squad compared to the last review, in line with the savings it has made, in another filigree of numbers, levers and accounting fantasy.
As well as getting rid of big salaries such as Busquets, Jordi Alba, Piqué, Umtiti, Lenglet, Dembelé, Ansu Fati, Eric García, Kessie, Dest and Abde, and paying transfers for some of them, the accounts still didn’t work out for the blaugranas. And yet the ‘eviction’ has been almost heroic.
They argued that they had not received in due time and form the payment for the instalment of one of the levers of the summer of 2022: 60 million euros that should have been paid on 15 June, so they found themselves directly with a -60 in their already battered salary cap.
And then came the ‘repalanca’: a new deal with an allegedly anonymous Cypriot investor and the Libero Football Finance fund. It was no longer for ‘Barça Studios’ which in theory was bought by Socios.com and Roures, but was now called Barça Vision. Apparently, they were going to cover the 60 million that they did not cover and, in fact, they made public the entry of 20 million in the short term and the agreement to receive another 40 million on 29 August. Neither came.
From then on, more haste, more quick sales and bizarre agreements such as the loan of Joao Felix. The Portuguese player, in theory, receives just 400,000 euros from Barcelona although, for salary limit purposes, Barcelona ‘weighs’ 4 million euros net.
From this mixture of cubism and financial surrealism come these results: Barça once again performing pirouettes and endorsements from its president to be able to register players (Iñigo Martínez came in with 8 minutes to go before the market closed). The classic “going for a loss”, which has always been criticised by LaLiga against English clubs, but which Laporta has now been allowed to do, bordering on the limits of economic control, but without exceeding them.