At Barça, the account is still not there
The Three Kings are eagerly awaited in Spain, and perhaps in Barcelona more than elsewhere. Still mired in its financial problems, Barça can no longer play Dani Olmo, its star recruit from the summer transfer window, at present. The club therefore continues to tinker to get through the cracks. Hoping for a little miracle.
How far away it seems, the time when FC Barcelona exploded Real Madrid and advanced whistling, looking cheerful and walking lightly… The certainties
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were shattered in less than two months. The five points taken in seven La Liga games brought Hansi Flick's men back to solid ground, and the club's economic woes have finally dampened the mood once and for all. Accustomed to absurd stories in recent years, FC Barcelona is once again caught up in its bad accounts. The new episode of a series that is far too long, with Joan Laporta and Javier Tebas at the top of the bill, and two collateral victims: Dani Olmo and Pau Víctor, who now risk spending the next six months without being able to play.
More than a lever
The club has been dragging its questionable financial management like a ball and chain for more than two years now. Caught in the vice, Joan Laporta and his team have multiplied the famous “economic levers” to pay off part of the debts and provide themselves with room for maneuver, however short, to strengthen the workforce. In 2022, the club has thus “sacrificed” 49.9% of its licenses and its merchandising, in addition to 25% of its TV rights in La Liga over a period of 25 years, to recover new money. Determining levers for registering the recruits of the time, Robert Lewandowski and Raphinha in particular, while remaining within the nails relating to the payroll.…
By Quentin Ballue for SOFOOT.com
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