Barça's goal: a reduction of 28%

Barcelona will request a new economic effort from its players, who continue to be the best paid in European football.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
03 June 2022 Friday 23:07
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Barça's goal: a reduction of 28%

Barcelona will request a new economic effort from its players, who continue to be the best paid in European football. As revealed by the financial vice president, Eduard Romeu, the wage bill for next season is once again skyrocketing and amounts to “560 million”. “It is almost double that of Bayern Munich, which is 300. While Madrid pays 400”, Romeu discovered in El món to RAC1. For this reason, the club will undertake a new salary reduction for the squad. “We would like to be where our great rival is”, Romeu marks himself as an objective. That would mean a drop in salary of 28%.

The Barça will go back to touch the pocket to his players. The solution to gain wage margin and fair play is not new. It was already undertaken last season with the captains. "It's not enough," Romeu explained. The renewed ones (Pedri, Ansu Fati and Araújo) and the winter signings (Ferran Torres and Aubameyang) will be left out.

Romeu also shed light on Barcelona's refusal, for the second time, to join the CVC and LaLiga pact, which would contribute 270 million to Barça for the transfer of 10% of its television rights for 50 years. "From an economic point of view, it is not a good agreement, but it also involves requirements that we cannot accept," reasoned the vice president. “For a modest club it is a correct agreement, but not for Barça. It is a kind of coffee for all, a measure that equals below. This generates discrimination against those of us who are in another, more international scenario.”

In fact, Barcelona has been able to find investors who pay the same as CVC but for half the years. Bank of America was quoted in the interview, but La Vanguardia has been able to learn that Goldman Sachs as well.

At the assembly on June 16, the board will request permission for the commercialization of 25% of those rights and 49% of BLM. “The partners will not know the name of the companies because we are putting the offers in competition to choose the best one. They have to trust us,” he requested.

In the background of Barça's sit-in at CVC lies not going through the hoop of Javier Tebas, president of LaLiga. “It would be submitting. And there is a time when we must say enough. And we have said enough to this agreement as it is now. Mr. Tebas is co-responsible for our situation. He looked the other way and allowed it, ”said Romeu.

In a response statement, LaLiga defended that its economic controls work and recalls that if the club generates "extraordinary income that allows it to compensate for accumulated losses", it could re-register players as normal, regardless of whether those actions correspond to operations with CVC.