As we approach the summer transfer window, the Catalan press is wild. The face of Julián Álvarez is, for example, on the front page of the local media almost daily, while Barcelona newspapers also multiply articles on players like Alessandro Bastoni (Inter) or Víctor Muñoz (Osasuna). Latest crazy rumor to date: the one leading to Parisian Bradley Barcola. Suffice to say that if we read the Catalan media, the leader of La Liga is going to spend like crazy this summer.
However, in recent years, Barça has had enormous difficulty recruiting and then registering its players with La Liga. The Dani Olmo case is a good example. And this, because of the financial fair play of La Liga, which limits and regulates the wage bill of its clubs, preventing them, to summarize briefly, from spending more money on building the squad than what the club is capable of generating in revenue.
The payroll will explode
And that’s it Sport indicates that the club’s management will face a big problem: its payroll will increase considerably next season. Certainly, the departure of a player like Robert Lewandowski will free up salary cap space, but it will quickly be offset by other big salaries, like that which will be reserved for Julián Álvarez in the event of a transfer to Catalonia. But above all, the salaries of several players on the squad will be increased.
Lamine Yamal’s new contract will thus be taken into account from the coming season, with emoluments estimated at 8 million euros net in the form of a fixed amount, which may increase depending on the player’s performances and the titles gleaned by the squad. The biggest salary at the club, once Lewandowski leaves. The salary increase granted to Fermín López will also increase the payroll of the Catalan team, which will also receive less money than last season, having exited earlier in the Champions League. Enough to cause new headaches for the Catalan management which will still struggle with financial fair play in La Liga this summer…
