Barcelona is still looking for sources of income or savings, despite the match of a deal for defender Inigo Martinez to leave the club. The Basque defender will save his contract with the Catalan giants before moving to Al-Nassr in Saudi Arabia.
Martinez will sign a two-year-old deal with Al-Nassr, although he will have a clause in his deal with which he can leave for a free summer next summer. According to Sport, that says that Martinez will earn around € 10 million net per season in the middle, a significant increase in the € 7 million he earned in Barcelona.
Nevertheless, the € 8.4 million that Martinez's exit releases for Barcelona in their salary limit will not be sufficient to register one of their new signing sessions in Joan Garcia or Marcus Rashford, according to Marca. There have been earlier reports, but their information is that although the salary of Garcia would be covered, the extra € 5 million munmortized from his transfer did not. Since Barcelona is their salary limit above, they can only use 60% of the money they save or earn.
After Barcelona had temporarily removed the captain of Marc-Andre ter Stegen on Thursday, they also removed his team, the number one, from his La Liga profile on their website. A certain sign of both the anger of the Blaugrana about his behavior, rightly or wrongly, and of their intention to give both the number and the starting point to Garcia.
Moreover, Pau Cubarsi has taken the number five sweater from Inigo Martinez. Cubarsi previously wore the number two. In addition to Garcia and Rashford, Barcelona still have five more players to register, including new contracts. They now only have eight days to find a way to do it.