Barcelona hopes to have all their players register for the coming season before their next collision with Levante this weekend, and it has been cited that the departure of players will be the deciding factor to make that happen. Talk about the VIP chairs of € 100 million to Forta advisers and the visionary group of the new era, rather considered as the deal that would bring Barcelona back into their salary limit, is blurred in the background.
Director of sports sections in Barcelona Xavi O'Callaghan gave a press conference on Monday, where he explained the state of playing for all sports that do not fall under men's football. It was recently reported that the Barcelona board had a guarantee of € 7 million to allow the Senior Team of the men to register Marcus Rashford and Joan Garcia because of sports such as basketball that the budget is transferred. However, O'Callaghan fiercely denied that this was the case.
O'Callaghan told Ser Catalunya that the result of the € 7 million gap in the club's finances was due to the men's football side that spends extra on players they could not register, and players who stayed about youth contracts instead of senior. He confirmed that the Femeni side, recently forced to sell Jana Fernandez and were only 17 players, budget.
Their salary budget will increase by € 1 million this year to € 13.7 million, but O'Callaghan noted that the money from English parties was pushing the prices and made it harder to keep star players. In the meantime, basketball will reduce its budget from € 31.5 million to € 28.7 million.
Continue, O'Callaghan also addressed the famous VIP chairs Lease, which La Liga initially added to Barcelona salary limit in the first January. The former handball player, however, explained from the problems that Barcelona is confronted with to stay the case.
“Fair Play depends on the expected income. If you say Laliga:” I will earn this income this year: “You've not made it yet; you say that you will do that. And the interpretation of income from VIP chairs is a way for Barça and another for La Liga. And there is a fight here.”
“You have to play with the income, and if you consider it what it is (including VIP chairs) and La Liga, you have a problem. That's why the sign also takes a risk, because if Liga's income perception is different, you have already committed.”
In March, Auditors Crowe removed the income of € 100 million from Barcelona's budgets, leaving Barcelona over their salary limit again. Barcelona is now trying to prove that the product in question is now active and can therefore be included in their accounts, but O'Callaghan seemed to confirm that La Liga already had the documentation, and it was the disagreement that was responsible for the lack of green light.
Barcelona rented the rights to 475 VIP chairs at their competitions for the next 30 years, theoretical in Camp Nou at that time, in exchange for € 100 million. It was previously reported that La Liga is of the opinion that, as is the case with sponsorship agreements and transfers, the income must be distributed over the duration of the deal, in this case the annual impact on their salary limit at € 3.33 million instead of € 100 million this year.