This is a serious possibility. Most of La Liga clubs, with the exception of Real Madrid, are in a dire financial state. They've been able to get away hoarding debt thus far because of exponential rise in broadcasting revenues over the past two decades. Now that growth is significantly slowing down & will soon hit stable state with most international markets already covered. These clubs are now also capitalizing their future revenue streams to spend on annual operating expenses, taking risk beyond what they can afford to lose. This does not bode well.
Exactly. I’d also add someone like Sevilla could take this risk since Madrid v Barca is the attraction but it’s catastrophic for the league when it’s one half of their selling point that’s in this much trouble. The entire league is based off of El Classicos and having the best players in the world in the pitch but that entire angle is dead now. Even Atletico are in dire financial need, where is the challenge for Madrid to base future tv rights from? The meltdown from La Liga when Mbappe and Haalands turned them down tells the story and not a big enough fuss was made about why.
Imagine they spend €230m+ on those four and then cannot register them
Forget registering them, can they buy all these players in the first place?Imagine they spend €230m+ on those four and then cannot register them
What is not "legal" about selling players, loaning or negotiating new contracts?
The "unethical" part was Bartomeu paying journalists and companies to defend him and attack players. THAT is unethical (and criminal, because Bartomeu is a CRIMINAL).
Your proposal is as easy to manipulate. You can do exactly the same as Bartomeu did.
I agree that getting all four and realizing the sales prices you quoted is ambitious (to say the least…) but it would still be more fun, if they manage to do so and then fail to register the players.
Erm... what?
Sandro Rosell implemented rules to avoid having more debt than advisable. The norm was a maximum debt of 2 times the Ebitda, if you went beyond this figure you had 2 years to return to be within the margins or the entire board of directors was fired.
Laliga is the one that best passed the pandemic of the 5 major leagues by far, thanks to the FFP. With the exception of Barcelona obviously.
Griezzman €40M possibly at the end of the season.
Raphinha is well advanced.
Barcelona's tactics failing doesn't make them ethical.
10th? Do you even know they have finished 2nd with an ex-player as manager and a bunch of Academy kids?
Default is certainly possible.
Sorry but Bayern are just being difficult here to teach Lewa and Barca a lesson. Nobody in their right mind believes that Barca will go out of business within a year or two ffs.
Bayern have always been a bunch of self-righteous cnuts when it comes to the finances because they've had to watch Italian, Spanish, English and now French teams out spend them consistently for big name players.
That's precisely what makes it so silly. There's really no reason why a few careful, strategic signings shouldn't allow Barcelona to compete for the league next season, and even win it. Instead Laporta wants to build a new team in half a year.10th? Do you even know they have finished 2nd with an ex-player as manager and a bunch of Academy kids?
People keep comparing LaLiga with the PL. LaLiga is a Bundesliga with 2 Bayerns.
It was a humorous fake twitter; just as that "piqué's banging Gavi's mother" story.
Sorry, 8.
barcelona told that players for the future will play, which makes sense. i dont know any rule that makes you put on the pitch a player who will leave. it is more than natural to try to play as much as possible a youngster of another player with contract. it will NEVER stand in a court.
you said "legal" solution, no legal solutions. it sounds very different, at least in my culture it is not the same.
Did he say that while he was in prison?
I mean they have zero financial debt and the top 3/4 revenues in world football but they’re stingy. They’re very sensible in the transfer market and deploy some bully tactics to get prices of players down or players to run down their contracts and sign on a free.
the quotation marks were used for emphasis on the solution being legal, but I get why it was misunderstood.
By all accounts they’re banking on being La Liga champions and getting to CL quarter finals to get through the year. Another season like last year apparently spells disaster simply because of the reduced income from now on
So, just to clarify, you're saying that a club being fecked by debt due to terrible mismanagement over several years is the same as one where the owners are taking dividends from their well run business?
Expecting this to raise its head again soon. Chelsea’s new American owners wouldn’t have splurged £4b on a club unless they think there’s a chance they’re in for some big money down the line.
They have to do that in order to maintain the status they currently do. It’s smart, it makes sense and it’s cheaper than spending £1b over 3 seasons. That all changes if the Bundesliga ever got the influx of cash the PL gets. But they act like they’re the moral compass of the footballing world whenever finances are discussed. They’d bend over backwards to sign a Haaland if they could afford to.
i say that barça has to sell a small part of their future incomes until their maturity (around 5% for now) to pay the debt a CRIMINAL generated. the advantage is that once it is paid, we are "free".
sorry then, as 99% os the messages talk about "bullies" etc, i was implying the same.
Some of the issues Barcelona have are restrictions due to 'Spanish FFP,' they are somewhat artificial.
debt != cash. barça's main issue has been LaLiga FFP rules (not even Champions League rules). main issue in order to have sport maneuravility. debt is huge but having a huge debt does not mean that you need to sell everything you have now at any price or that you cannot buy things.
