11 days before the start of the La Liga season, FC Barcelona have registered only 13 players. It is possible that this will still be the case in the game against Getafe.
According Esport3, FC Barcelona is waiting after the failure of one of the “economic levers” it had planned. With Orpheus Media and Socios having to delay their payments for Barca Studios, FC Barcelona sought alternative funding.
This financing was to come from the resale of 16% of the 49.5% sold to these two companies by a German investment fund, which would have paid in advance the 65 million euros that Barcelona were initially to receive. However, this fund has decided to withdraw from the transaction.
FC Barcelona therefore risk not being able to register new signings Oriol Romeu, Inigo Martinez and Ilkay Gundogan, while those who have signed new contracts, Gavi, Ronald Araujo, Inaki Pena, Marcos Alonso and Sergi Roberto, are also at risk of be unavailable. In particular, Martinez and Gundogan are said to have clauses in their contracts which would allow them to leave the club for free or on loan if they weren’t signed up for the game against Getafe.
FC Barcelona has denied this information and claims that the operation is going as planned.
It can be assumed that FC Barcelona will seek to find another investment fund as soon as possible in order to cover this rather important problem, if the first information is correct. Although neither the club nor president Joan Laporta could have foreseen this situation, it highlights the narrow line they have been walking on lately, relying on agreements with outside companies to act as a crutch. for their operations.
