Barcelona's finances improve, at least according to their administration and president, but their debts remain citizen because they not only finance the renovation of Camp Nou, but also redevelop the surrounding area in the Espai Barca project. They still have a number of debts for their transfers in recent years.
According to Sport, Barcelona has received a judicial order from a FIFA-registered agent Isaac Tutumlu, who claims € 3 million in an unpaid services of the deal with Jules Kounde. The French defender, who was first paid for the use of the sale of assets that was popularly described as 'economic levers', left Sevilla in 2022 to become a member of Barcelona, after he reportedly rejected Chelsea .
The deal was worth an assumed € 50 million, but Tutumlu claims € 3 million for his intermediary work in the deal. The judicial order claims that “Barcelona president Joan Laporta asked his services in the summer of 2021, because of his good relationship with the then Sevilla sports director Monchi.” Subsequently, Tutumlu explains an essential and decisive role in the negotiation and the subsequent acquisition of Kounde by Barcelona.
Messages between Barcelona employees and the agent, where they agree that a deal that rises to € 3 million are also quoted, even if a contract has not been written out. However, Sport reports that their sources in Barcelona have denied that Tutumlu has a case. They say that the agent periodically offered his services to Barcelona without pursuing a company, and not that the Kounde deal was exclusively negotiated by the then director of Football Mateu Alemany.
Agent costs have been a controversial problem in Barcelona in recent years, where sports director Deco shortly after he had negotiated a deal with the Blaugrana as an agent of Raphinha. He has denied that he is taking a commission for the deal, while the Brazilian agent Andre Cury also stands under the microscope for his role in the Vitor Roque Deal.
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