“Barcelona will have to restructure 525 million euros of debt if it wants to ensure the renewal of Lionel Messi”

The future of Lionel messi it is still uncertain. Although all the conditions are in place for the Argentine star to renew his link with Barcelona, ​​the president of La Liga, Javier Tebas, warned that he will not allow “ad hoc rules”To guarantee the continuity of Rosario at Culé. Especially since the Catalan club took “the Cup of losses” during the last season.

In the presentation of the financial report for the period 2020-21, Thebes warned that the entity blaugrana recorded half of the losses estimated at 700 million euros and warned that “it is exceeded” in the expense of its staff.

Along these lines, he advised the executive committee of the Barcelona to do “a major effort”If you want to keep the best player in the world when his contract expires next June 30th: “I trust that it will do so because it is the first team in terms of turnover, but has to structure the 500 million debt. If you do, your situation will not be serious“, He said.

“The rules are what they are. They will not change. We are not going to make ad hoc rules for the issue of Messi. With a very important reduction in its wage bill and a debt restructuring, Barcelona will return to a good situation, although not that of three or four years ago in the market”, He assured.

“Barcelona, ​​which is the first team in the world in terms of turnover, what you have to do is structure your debt, if you do it correctly, and yesterday they approved restructure 525 million euros, their situation will not be complicated ”, he valued.

According Thebes, the situation of the whole blaugrana It is due “without a doubt” to the pandemic, but also to the fact that “have always maxed out their salary limit”, Which has left him with less room for maneuver in the face of the economic blow of the coronavirus, what it has subtracted 1,999 million of income from Spanish football in two seasons.

“When the soccer economy has caught pneumonia, it has not been able or has not wanted to reduce wages to assume that loss of income. But now he has announced a huge reduction in the wage bill, and the restructuring of the debt with Goldman sachsThese two measures can give you a good situation, not like three or four years ago, but with an equal volume of income and a good volume of EBITDA (gross operating profit) ”, the president of La Liga has argued.

In contrast, Thebes praised the financial conduct of the Real Madrid: “He has done an excellent management because their figures are very far from those of Barcelona. The one that has best managed the issue of the pandemic in this ruin of football, was Real Madrid”.

On the other hand, the head of the Iberian competition predicted that the European summer pass market will have “much lower figures”In their operations and stated that most clubs will be able to sign. “We did not estimate that the pandemic would last the entire season, but considering the numbers that have been in 2019-20 and 2020-21, the vast majority will be able to go to the market ”, he concluded.

THE ECONOMIC REPORT OF THE LEAGUE (PERIOD 2020/21)

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