The board of directors of FC Barcelona has signed this Tuesday, July 4, the guarantee of 6.670 million euros jointly that will allow the registration of renewed footballers but whose conditions are not yet listed in LaLiga. This is the case of Sergi Roberto, Araújo, Marcos Alonso, Iñaki Peña and Gavi, although in the case of the latter, FC Barcelona has already formalized the process after the employer's approval of the feasibility plan and after the Barcelona Court estimated the appeal. Although the first team professional contract until 2026 is already fully valid for LaLiga, the magistrate must listen to the parties and make the final decision.
It should be remembered that the guarantee presented by the board corresponds to a failure to cut spending, according to LaLiga, of the economic planning plan for the 2022-23 season. Before June 30, the entity had to comply with the cuts presented at the time to LaLiga both in men's, women's and youth football as well as in the professional sections. Of the 108 million euros budgeted, the entity had to go to 98 million but the club stayed at 104 million due to the departure of the sections, which had not been reduced following the established plan.
Within the club they calculate that with the departure of Nikola Mirotic, who was earning around 10 million gross per year, and with the non-renewal of coach Sarunas Jasikevicius, it will now be possible to guarantee that the managers recover their contribution. Even so, the duration of the guarantee is one year and it cannot be released until the last day of the 2023-24 season.
According to LaLiga regulations, not making the guarantee effective would punish the Blaugrana club with an economic sanction that would multiply the non-compensated amount by three. Imputing another 18 million euros would be a drag due to the exceeded salary mass. However, the entity must continue working to lighten it. He still cannot register the already announced signing of Ilkay Gündogan and Iñigo Martínez, pending officialization.
Beyond Gündogan and Iñigo Martínez, who is already in Barcelona, the sports leadership and the coaching staff led by Xavi hope to continue incorporating footballers. Specifically a defensive midfielder and a right back. "We will add something to the defense if we are allowed with an exit that has to be made. In the midfield we will make one more reinforcement because the coach has asked us to do so", the president Joan Laporta slipped at the LaLiga presentation gala that was held in Madrid and in which he showed he was in good harmony with Javier Tebas, president of LaLiga.
Given the economic impossibility of being able to sign midfielders like Xavi like Zubimendi, Kimmich or Brozovic, the consensus solution to try to find a replacement for Busquets is Oriol Romeu. The 31-year-old midfielder, trained in the club's youth ranks and now playing for Girona, has a clause of 4 million euros. Barça cannot yet make a formal offer to the Montilivi club due to its limitations in terms of financial fair play. "If there are exits, we can register some more," Laporta said in Madrid.
In this sense, the club continues to work on the folders of the players on loan. After the agreed departure of Umtiti, which had a cost for the club of 20 million euros for next season, the club continues to work to find a way out for four more on loan with a current contract that will cost them 31.255 million euros next season . They are Lenglet, Sergiño Dest, Àlex Collado and Gustavo Maia.
Negotiations with Tottenham, the team where Clément Lenglet has played on loan this season, have stalled. Lenglet costs Barcelona a salary of 16.046 million euros for the next course. Nor are there any offers for Sergiño Dest, who will carry out the pre-season with the first team.
To try to further lighten their salary mass, beyond the sale of players, the intention of the Blaugrana leadership is to reduce the salaries of executives with salaries of more than 100,000 euros per year by at least 10 percent. A measure that will be imminent and for which there is a very good predisposition. The football director Mateu Alemany has also positioned himself to adapt his salary to the complicated situation of the club.
Before the end of the month of July, Laporta hopes to know the expected ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union that must determine if UEFA in fact has the monopoly to organize the competitions or if the Super League would also fit. Without the Super League for the moment, the always optimistic Blaugrana president aspires to be able to present a budget for the 2023-2024 season to the next assembly that includes 34 million revenues.
