FC Barcelona thought it had done the hardest. With the sale of the famous VIP places in Camp Nou last winter, against an surrounding amount of 100 million euros, the club was able to enter the nails of the Liga financial fair play. And thus, return to this famous rule of 1: 1, which allows the club to spend the slightest euro which enters the club's funds on the transfer window. Until now, Catalan leaders could not, under the constraint of the Liga, use it only part, in order to plug the holes in the accounts.
This lever had also made it possible that the CSD, the Higher Committee for Spanish Sport, an body dependent on the government, authorizes the provisional recording of Dani Olmo and Pau Victor in Liga. And this, while the instances of the Spanish championship, Javier Tebas in the lead, opposed it. And now La Liga, via an official press release, has just announced that this sale of the VIP places of Camp Nou was not validated by this care. There are gray areas around this transaction, and the amounts announced in the operation do not correspond with what can be read in the accounts presented by Barça.
A next Mercato complicated
Consequences of all this: the liga has just dropped the salary ceiling authorized to FC Barcelona. The Catalans currently have a salary course of 464 million euros to build their workforce, which is already light (Real Madrid is € 754 million comparative), and this ceiling will therefore be lowered. A very bad news, since this would prevent Dani Olmo and Pau Victor for the end of the season. The current registration had been temporarily authorized by the CSD but it must still be definitively confirmed during this month of April. In view of what the Liga has just announced, it looks complicated …
It is therefore quite possible that Dani Olmo and Pau Victor cannot play at the end of the season. This “cancellation” of the lever used by Joan Laporta last winter will also have annoying consequences for the next transfer window, while the Barcelonais intended to buy several players like Luis Diaz (Liverpool) and Vanderson (AS Monaco). With a room for maneuver which will be very limited and which will surely force the club to separate, Deco and Joan Laporta are therefore likely to have to review their plans …
