A few days before the preseason begins at Barça, the Barça club is experiencing moments of certain anguish. As reported this Sunday night RAC-1, The Barça club already knows from LaLiga sources how much the salary limit is going to have to lower. If he does not comply, he will not be able to register his signings (Eric Garcia, Emerson, Depay and Agüero) or Leo Messi, who no longer has a contract with the Barça club and whom LaLiga considers a signing for salary purposes.
And the figure scares. Always according to RAC, Barça will have to go from the 347 million euros of salary limit that it had last season, to 160. That means 187 million less wage bill. All this, related to losses that LaLiga estimates at 350 million euros in the 2020-21 season.
The situation, then, is very complicated at Barça, hence whye the Barça club give freedom to Samuel Umtiti or Pjanic, and are thinking of doing the same with footballers like Coutinho. From others, such as Neto, Júnior or Braithwaite, he hopes to get money for the transfer. And there are absolutely transferable players like Lenglet, Dembélé or Griezmann.
The key to the equation, however, is in the veterans’ chip reduction. Laporta reached an agreement with Piqué, but the reductions of Jordi Alba, Sergio Busquets or Sergi Roberto remain to be resolved. Barça does not have the last one, but is reluctant to leave. The objective with Busquets and Alba is to break the current contracts and make new ones according to the economic situation of the entity.
Meanwhile, Messi waits in Argentina. The crack has a pact with Laporta, but the situation begins to get complicated and LaLiga, inflexible, has already made it clear through its president, Javier Tebas, that it will not allow anyone to bypass the economic controls of the Spanish football association .