They can buy it back though according to a clause they have. That’s their plan it looks like. Use the cash injection to steady the ship and finish the stadium. From the vastly improved revenues, buy back these rights in the short to medium term future.
Barcelona: Charged with corruption .... again!
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The buy back is going to be substantially overpriced, either way they're going to suffer from this.
Imagine the uproar if the Glazers did something like this to us
I find it amazing that the overwhelming majority of 'socios' voted in favor of this.
Not a chance. They are never going to pay 200m up front to buy it back without going badly in debt again never mind how high it will rise within the next decade alone never mind 25 years. It’s propaganda nonsense. I’ll bet there’s a clause for show but it’ll be almost impossible to implement
Imagine the uproar if the Glazers did something like this to us
I find it amazing that the overwhelming majority of 'socios' voted in favor of this.
The alternative was a likely bankruptcy.
I'd be curious to see how many of our fans would prefer us going bankrupt if it meant getting rid of the Glazers.
no way. investment firms are the good guys and are only interested in saving barcelona and ensuring they can compete at the highest level possible, damn the costs or lack of dividends.
Why is it that you come to a Manchester United board to post almost exclusively about Barcelona and Messi?
So Barca have gone down the route of what is effectively a payday loan in order to still be able to splash the cash? Common sense would surely dictate you sell a couple of players, lean on youth and savvy transfers for a couple of seasons and then go again from there?
Shows how desperate they are to be pulling these kinds of tricks.
Given the quality of their academy and a few shrewd investments on players out of contract they'd still likely have CL every year and remain relevant as a club.
I have a new quality model for Barca to gain revenue. Sell free pics of their academy products for €10M a pop. If you buy one you can just hand it in for anyone of their academy players. This way they surely could finance Lewa.
Exactly, take the hit now and then restart in better financial shape or bury your head in the sand and keep digging a hole.
Can someone please explain this lever thingy?
What is that even supposed to mean
What is that even supposed to mean
Short term cash injection paid for with a 10% slice of their yearly TV revenue for the next 25 yearsCan someone please explain this lever thingy?
What is that even supposed to mean
They're screwed. The moment you align yourself to bankers and start whoring yourself out for quick cash injections is the moment you're fecked. Look at what happened to us.
Anyone who thinks they'll get a good price to buy it back is living in dreamland.
in that case they’ll just get a wonga loan to cover them until we buy the next superstar.
Fair enough, the first time I heard such a term in regards to financial state of things.
They're making shit up because of how fecked they are financially
Gotta say I do kinda enjoy seeing them wallowing in misery In a morbid kinda of way.
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I'd rather it happened to Madrid, though
I'd rather it happened to both.
They stopped pool from claiming to be the bested greatest superset team in the history of mankind so I give them a pass, for now at least.
Also you just gotta respect the hustle at this point.
In that case I rather it happened to everyone but us.
Funny this. I used to prefer Barcelona but their sanctimonious ways just rubs me the wrong way these days. Madrid owns who they are, a highly successful, almost evil but certainly pragmatic club who does whatever it takes to win. No moralistic bullshit about them.
Yeah, their utmost shameless way of presenting and conducting themselves and its sheer honesty does kinda make you begrudgingly respect them.
I am exactly in the same boat as you. It also helps that Madrid lost its cnuts and Barca Messi.
Only way out for Barca is change to a PLC or something like that and attract a rich buyer. They’d surely have no issues attracting the very richest
Thats just how FFP works for everyone, not just La Liga.
Your board is just dumb enough to start giving every player ridiculous salaries which led to your whole shitfest.
You mean the previous board.
No, the Bayern way: 30% sold to BMW/Allianz/Siemens if not mistaken
24.9% actually. Which is important since you need 75+% to change the club‘s constitution.
The Bundesliga allows for the sale of up to 49.99999% but Bayern limit themselves to 24.9%. It is held by Audi, Adidas and Allianz (8.3% each) by the way. The club controls the rest.
Barca took the payday to keep the lights on. No way are they splashing cash on transfers. People seriously under estimate how expensive their short term loans (approx €350m maturing in the next 12 months) are going to get and especially as they're only one grade above junk status (probably will go to junk shortly.)
This is also before we even get to the fact that the money they 'saved' last year through 'wage cuts' is shortly going to reappear as they were in fact deferments.
Barca essentially will have to sell at least one of their best players every year for the next 5-6 years as no way are they complying with La Liga FFP with their current debt level and the current trajectory of interest rates.
So when do they have to pay piquet his £42.5m?
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That wasn't our problem. Barca need to cutback. Why they keep signing old stars on big wages is beyond me though. Apparently the idea of developing players to sell them on is an affront to their self-image.
Xavi did an interview a few years back and it was delusional. He basically talked about how Barca is the "final exam" for a player, that Sterling can find space that CR can't, that Real don't want to play football and are fine with booting the ball into the stands, that Mbappe and Henry are more "physicality" than "talent" and that Javier Mascherano had to learn to play properly when he went to Barca.
I remember hearing that a Madrid-linked newspaper in Spain called PSG's game against them as his "audition" as if he'd be lucky to be let go there. Their conviction that they are always the biggest and best is hilarious and watching Mbappe puncture that was glorious.
If your team is really interested in Lewa and Raphina, I would say your current board is as well.
Sorry to dampen your euphoria, but no it may not, as they still owe banks major money which most likely some of it will be called in due to the fact the Nou camp is to be upgraded next season and they be looking for loans, then there is the 40 million they still owe too Pique in wages and no doubt 1/2 other high earners which will seek it, more so Pique given the rumours of unrest with him and Barca, and even selling us De Jong won't help, as all they be doing in robbing Peter to pay Paul due to fee and wages demands of Lewandowski.