Barcelona are once again selling assets and signing up players.
Barcelona are once again selling assets and signing up players. |
Let's first know what is 'economic lever'. After Juan Laporta returned as the president of Barcelona, this couplet has been heard many times in his mouth. It is a method of selling part or all of the club's various immovable or immovable assets to raise quick cash to pay off debts and other liabilities. This season, Barcelona have chosen this economic lever method several times to cover all the debts.
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Barca have yet to register seven players for the new season of the league. According to ESPN, Barca are now hoping to register players after the fourth and final economic lever is activated. La Liga authorities have submitted documents for economic levers on behalf of Barca. The authorities of Spain's top league will now verify these documents and accounts. The club have signed Rafinha, Robert Lewandowski, Andreas Christensen, Frank Casey and Jules Kunde for the new season. Outside of them are newly signed but unregistered Ousmane Dembele and Serhi Roberto. The La Liga authorities will now look into whether these seven players can be registered or not.
But Barca may have to take another step to get everyone registered before facing Rayo Vallecano. Players may need to take a bit of a pay cut. Barça are talking about it with veteran defender Gerard Pique. Pike is more likely to agree to a pay cut.
The club previously sold 24.5 percent of Barca Studios to Socios.com. It also sold 25 percent of domestic TV rights to Sixth Street for 25 years—two separate deals worth more than €500 million. Another 24.5 percent sale of the studio to another firm, GDA Luma, has been in talks for some time now. But Barca sold the rights to Orpheus Media after talks with the company stalled. The owner of this company is the Catalan businessman Jaume Roures. Laporta had direct support as Barca president.
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Barca spent more than 150 million euros to buy Lewandowski, Rafinha, Jules Kunde, Frank Casey and Christensen. Their unregistered scenario is similar to last season. Barca were able to sign Eric Garcia and Memphis Depay last season at the very last minute of the season, also after Pique agreed to take a pay cut. This time the situation is same.
Barca must stay within the spending limits set by La Liga. At the end of last season, this spending limit was minus 14.4 million euros. This is the only example of a negative spending limit in Spanish football. But Barca is on the way to turn around from this situation by selling their assets. The players' documents have been sent to the La Liga authorities this morning local time for the implementation of the fourth economic lever.
Spanish media outlet Sport previously reported that Barca have only 17 players registered for the new La Liga season. Even if the fourth economic lever is introduced, the club will not be able to register all new arrivals. The problem is, 11 players from the XI and 5 more substitutes will take a total of 16 players in the match. If you want, two of the same position can't be put on the field - Barca coach Xavi Hernandez will have to get into trouble if the new players can't be registered.
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Xavi was asked by Barca to prepare for the new La Liga season by training new players. If Xavi does that, he will probably have to go the 'Plan B' route if everyone doesn't register before the match against Rayo Viocano. Memphis Depay, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, who are on their way out of Barca, could be brought back at least for the match against Rayo. Gerard Pique can also be seen in defence. Barca will be able to sign all new players if the fourth economic lever is activated and the players' wages are reduced.
Of Barca's 17 players registered in La Liga, three do not have jersey numbers - Nico Gonzales, Samuel Umtiti and Martin Brathwaite. Nico has already been sent on loan to Valencia by Barca. Xavi left Umtiti and Brathwaite out of his plans for the season. It is very likely that Umtiti and Brathwaite will leave Barca before the end of the transfer season.
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The 17 players registered are Ter Stegen (1), Sergino Dest (2), Gerard Pique (3), Ronald Araujo (4), Jordi Alba (18), Eric Garcia (24), Samuel Umtiti (no jersey number), Busquets (5), Pedri (8), Pjanic (16), Frenkie de Jong (21), Nico Gonzales (no jersey number), Ferran Torres (11), Ansu Fati (10), Memphis Depay (14), Aubameyang (17) ) and Brathwaite (no jersey number). Gavi has been placed in the reserve team for the championship.
Barca president Juan Laporta sat in a meeting on Thursday with vice president Rafael Yueste and director Mateo Alemany. Then Barca found a glimmer of hope by turning on the last economic lever today.