CONFIRMED BY THE FINANCIAL VICE PRESIDENT OF BARÇA
FC Barcelona ensures the registration of its renewed players
FC Barcelona is fully confident that it will be able to finalize the registration of the six players on the squad who have renewed their contracts in recent months. Eduard Romeu, economic vice president, has made it clear while he explained the financial planning for the 2023-2024 financial year
The FC Barcelona has a -long- smart of tasks in this market. The priority of the Barcelona, after tying the signings free of Iñigo Martínez and İlkay Gündoğan, is to process the registrations of the players of the staff whose agreements win on 30 June, but that renewed it in the last months. The forecast of the Barcelona is that, from 1 July, can achieve it without any type of problems.
Like this it has left it glimpse the economic vice-president of the club, Eduard Romeu, in statements issued to 'Sportive World'. To achieve that LaLiga approve the register of Gavi, Ronald Araújo, Marcos Alonso, Sergi Roberto and Iñaki Crag, the Managerial Board of Joan Laporta will see forced to present a guarantee of three million euros, more a will pay of other three 'kilos' to avoid a sanction by part of the economic control of the patronal after have not achieved to fulfil, in his whole, with the cuts in the sections.
The Barça encarrila the registrations of his players
It is worth it to remember that, in the forecast of the Barcelona for the present exercise (2022-2023) had included a cut of ten million euros between all the sections. The alone club achieved to reduce four 'kilos' and, now, the Board has to present a new guarantee, as it already happened in the summer of 2022 to achieve the registration of Jules Koundé. It foresees that it approve on 28 June and Eduard Romeu has aimed that already it is carrying out all the paperwork to achieve it.
"These registrations of these players will be able to do , all these go in, and is something that does not concern us. For this the board will have to activate this guarantee but already are speaking with the banking entity in that it manages and doing papers and there will be any problem with this", has explained the Barcelona economic vice-president, that does not have 'wetted' with the register of the players that will incorporate this summer.
The debt of the Barça of 1.350 millions keeps 'intact'
On the other hand, Romeu has been questioned by the current situation of the debt of the club, after the statements of Víctor Font, excandidato to the presidency culé, that aimed that it had increased regarding which there was in 2021, when Joan Laporta assumed the reins of the presidency of the club. It has confessed that, in question, the Barça has not been able to reduce his debt because the additional income have been used for the signings of players.
"We keep it, it is truth, and has not been able to go down. Of that debt of 1.350 millions have gone paying some concepts but still have not been able to do it. Will be able to do it when we can use the additional income", explained, adding that "we are speaking of these 1.350 million debt but there is the one who the sum the one of the Espai Barça, that is not debt. It went out a headline that the Barça has 2.800 million debt and this is very simplistic. And it has not been able to go down the debt because we had to do, for example, investments in players, in a lot of cases paid clauses and the another is that it had to allocate part of this money to the hole that there was and that receive".
Likewise, it has indicated that this exercise the club will close it with profits, thanks to the crowbars that were activated does almost a year, but for the next (2023-2024) the forecast of the club is that it close "with black numbers", deepening in that still "of 380 millions that receive of wages postponed remain for paying 70 millions".
New 'crowbar' for the Barça?
Romeu Has insisted in the possibility that, this year, yes produce the sale of a percentage of BLM (Barça Licensing and Merchandising), something that already was on the table in 2024, but no "to generate 'fair play' because the League does not allow it, but if it does would be because it is not our bussiness open markets, would be by an industrial sense to do grow the product, although now we are attaining already an important increase of income with the opening of a lot of Botigas".