An extraordinary picture in Spanish football.
The player was expensive for Barcelona for 4.5 million euros
We are at the end of July, there are only forty days left before the market closes in Spain. There are only three weeks left until the first La Liga match. But Barcelona signed players for 3.4 million euros. In addition, shaven-shaven midfielder Oriol Romeu paid part of the transfer money out of his own pocket. Girona asked for 4.5 million euros, but this amount was too much for Barcelona. Defensive midfielder Romeu wanted so badly to return to his native Blaugranas that he persuaded Girona to make a discount and paid €600,000 from his own funds.
We recall Messi’s explanations why he didn’t return to Barcelona. Lionel wanted to play where he could go to the supermarket with his family so he wouldn’t be stopped on the street every ten seconds. And Barcelona simply do not have the money for a new contract with the forward. The club is still paying off Argentina’s debt on old deals. Farewells to Busquets, Alba and Umtiti have cut Barcelona costs and signed free agents: midfielder Gundogan and centre-back Iñigo Martinez.
The club, which spent 158 million last season, has frozen its activity on the transfer market. Recently, Barcelona spent 375 million euros on players in one season, and now La Liga controls their financial affairs. There were many restrictions preventing newcomers from registering a year ago. In the spring, Tebas said Barcelona needed to sell €200m worth of players to offset “past dubious deals”.
The Catalan club must cut salaries from 650 to 450 million euros. And even if now Laporta were to sell the players for 200 million euros, financial control would allow only 40% of the amount to be spent. There were two options. Either you sell De Sciglio and Gavi to make about 170 million euros, or you don’t buy and save drastically. Laporta chose the second option.
Real Madrid outspend more than 19 other clubs in La Liga
Not only Barcelona is seen with both eyes. Many La Liga clubs are heavily in debt. Reviewers set boundaries for each team. Recently, the management of the Spanish league has taken liberties. They were actively used by the president of Barcelona, Laporta, using “leverage” to find money for newcomers such as Lewandowski. Now the shop is closed. In La Liga they doubt that agreements with third-party clubs benefit Spanish football. In whose hands was part of Barcelona’s assets?
It will be hard to make ends meet if all clubs start selling TV rights to third parties. To avoid chaos, financial collapse and fraud, many operations have been banned. Right decision, the clubs have planned a fictitious multiple sale of various royalties to artificially inflate revenues. In a nutshell, the history of Juventus has repeated itself, only in a different form. Tebas was right to make Barcelona and the others pay their past bills and not increase their debts.
Creating loopholes is unfair, not only because it’s easier for a rich club to find loan money. There are also the interests of the players. Barcelona forced the legends to forgive debts. Piqué has withdrawn and will not get back the millions of euros that Bartomeu had promised him. Real Madrid are in a better situation than many other teams, so it’s easier for them. As a result, clubs like Barcelona and Betis strictly monitor the amount of payments to players, but Real Madrid and Atlético are a little easier.
But the difference between the expenditure of 19 clubs – about 68 million euros, and one “Real” – 128.5 million, is striking. If we take into account the costs of Atlético, who gave 27.7 million euros, the gap will increase even more. Only two giants from Madrid have granted themselves important deals, the rest of the clubs are on a starvation diet and the situation could get worse.
Sevilla are ready to sell any player due to debts of 90 million euros
Spanish mass media he hysterically claimed that Sevilla put their entire team on the transfer. It is purely technically impossible, but there is a crisis. We know of the departure of the sporting director of the Monchi club. The legendary manager is now helping Emery in Birmingham while Aston Villa have the transfer money. And Sevilla are preparing for a full house despite the club’s victory over Roma in the Europa League final. That success didn’t bring much money and debts of 90 million euros have to be repaid.
But while the Spaniards did not sell any of the first compositions. The situation is strange and unnerves the Andalusian fans. The problem is that there are no players left in the question who can be given to other clubs for a lot of money. Sevilla had €50m transfers in the past – Kunde at Barcelona, there were enough €25m+ deals, such as the transfers of Ramos and Dani Alves, that they don’t need to be introduced. But now only worthy Moroccans and senior director Lucas Ocampos are in the candidacy.
To raise 90 million euros, you really have to give away half of the base. That’s what lack of control leads to. And when Real Madrid say they don’t have the money for Mbappe’s transfer, they can’t lie. Perez, of course, infuriates with his silence and lack of an official proposal PSG, requests a discount. The Parisians are going to say goodbye to Kilian, they are ready to put the striker on the bench – the saga dragged on. But with Real Madrid having already signed Bellingham for €103m and Guler for €20m, La Liga auditors are reminding Perez of the restrictions.
However, despite all the obstacles, Real Madrid was in a winning position, because the club has been making good money in the Champions League for many years, and Perez alternated between large transfer costs and minimal investments. Barcelona and other clubs didn’t show such wisdom, they miscalculated. Now Ancelotti can wait for Mbappe, and the rest of the coaches have been offered to work with those who will remain in the squad after the transfer.
