FC Barcelona is capable of acting. This has been confirmed by a club boss who gave the green light for winter transfers if they are necessary.
FC Barcelona is groaning under enormous debts, but still wants to spend money on signings in the winter transfer window. This was announced by the managing director Ferran Reverter. Two contract extensions are also in the pipeline.
Due to a debt burden of around 1.35 billion euros and a loss in the past financial year of 481 million euros, the Spanish league had drastically curtailed Barca’s spending. The club is only allowed to spend almost 98 million euros on salaries and transfers in the current season, several stars had already agreed to waive their salaries.
Nonetheless, CEO Reverter was optimistic on Wednesday that Barca would be able to act in the transfer market should the sporting situation require signings in the winter: “If necessary, we can spend more than € 20m in January,” he said.
He also stated that the contract extensions with the talents Ansu Fati (18) and Pedri (18) were “on the right track”. The contracts of the two midfielders expire next summer.
FC Barcelona: did Messi have to leave because of Depay and Aguero?
LaLiga president Javier Tebas, meanwhile, spoke to Cope said Lionel Messi could have stayed at FC Barcelona if the club hadn’t signed Memphis Depay and Sergio Agüero. The Argentine had left Blaugrana in the summer because financial fair play had made it impossible to extend his contract.
“[Klub-Präsident Joan] Laportqa have signed players like Memphis Depay and Agüero. If he hadn’t done that, Messi could have stayed, “said Tebas, who is responsible for financial fair play rules in Spain.
Tebas also suspected that Real Madrid president Florentino Perez Laporta had convinced him to vote against the deal with the private equity firm CVC Capital Partners. The Spanish league had given up ten percent of its own shares for a cash injection, the big clubs Real, Barca and Atletico Madrid voted against and were not part of the deal.
“I went to Laporta for dinner and he’d agreed to go along with the CVC deal,” said Tebas. “Later he called me: ‘Can we speed things up? Messi is getting nervous. I said to him,’ If this comes out, Florentino will try to break the deal. ‘ But Laporta said to me: ‘No, no, I have character.’ Florentino is behind it, no doubt about it. “
If Barca had participated in the deal with CVC, 15 percent of the money could have been spent on players, Tebas said: “In my eyes, they could have renewed with Messi.”
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