Rafa Yuste, Joan Laporta, Joao Felix and Deco in the sports city of Barcelona. Toni Albir (EFE)
LaLiga published this Thursday the Sports Squad Cost Limits (LCPD) for the 2023-2024 season, in which Barcelona had to reduce its amount from 683 million last February to 270 million euros this month of September. This decrease of 413 million is justified by the lower revenues of the Barça company in recent years: losses in operations, deferred losses from the Covid phase and the negative costs of the sections. “Barça violates the limits of fair play, but we were able to make all the new signings,” says the Catalan newspaper. That is, Barcelona continue to exceed the squad’s salary limit and To new players they must adhere to Article 100: the 1/3 rule, To a euro of salary, three must be released. For its part, Real Madrid remains the highest limit in the Spanish League with 727 million, 450 more than Barça.
“Barça has historic contracts and, like eleven other teams, is overwhelmed. You can’t eliminate all players at once. Solutions cannot be given overnight. They are already working on it. “Barça would rather keep things within limits than sell one of its stars,” analyzed Javier Tebas, president of the employers’ association. And he added: “It doesn’t depend on LaLiga when Barcelona will sort out their situation.” We can never tell ourselves. It depends on Barça and its strategy in its business environment. We can monitor your situation for two or three seasons. Maybe a great player sells and makes a big move. We don’t know if he will do that. The entire medium and long-term strategy is determined by the club, we don’t tell them.”
“In the winter market we will remain in the same situation, but our idea is that it will be regulated next summer,” emphasizes Barça. According to the data presented by Javier Tebas, president of LaLiga, and Javier Gómez, its general director, in LaLiga EA are Real Madrid (727 million), Cádiz (49), Mallorca (60), Valencia (85), Celta de Vigo (79 ), Rayo Vallecano (51), Girona (47) as well as the newly promoted Alavés and Granada (47) and Las Palmas (35).
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