Laliga announces new rules for the Spanish transfer window

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By: Manu Tournoux

Laliga often demonstrates this with FC Barcelona. Even if you are a behemoth of Spanish football, the league will not give in for your transfer window if the rules of financial fair play are not respected. However, the body led by Javier Tebas is not intended to climb his clubs. AS also reveals that Laliga has taken a series of measure to encourage them to recruit.

The first concerns the Salary Cap. For many years, Laliga has published the maximum budget granted to each club for its payroll and clubs in financial difficulty are often unable to recruit and therefore necessarily prey to relegation. Now there will be the “guaranteed salary limit”. Clubs in financial difficulty in the first division will have a minimum wage limit of 30 % of their turnover.

Help clubs in difficulty

Another measure to help the stables in financially hard, the creation of provisional “visas”. Each club will be authorized to provisionally record three players (one transferred and two free) and will have only one salary limit of a season. The idea is to allow clubs to garner as much money as possible during this season to have the funds necessary for the final recording of these three players the following seasons. A measure that would, for example, avoided FC Barcelona all its legal battles for Dani Olmo and Pau Victor.

Then, the teams will have the possibility of extending the contract of a player trained at the club having pierced in the first team even if the limit of the Salary Cap is reached. On one condition: that this player is under the age of 24 and that he was under full contract for at least the three consecutive preceding seasons in the same club. In the event of exceeding the Salary Cap, the excess sum should be recovered during the season or will be deduced from the Salary Cap generated the following season.