Barça's new strategy to drastically reduce its wage bill

The next months will be full of work in the dispatches of the FC Barcelona, because they are many the accounts that have to take out so that the season 2023-2024 start with good foot. To the Barcelona will accumulate him the problems because they left of ingresar 93 million euros for leaving to play in the Spotify Camp Nou for mudarse to the Montjuïc and split with quite a lot of disadvantage with the limit salarial: right now they exceed it and they would have to recess the cost of the sportive staff in, at least, 200 million euros.

The sales and discounts will be compulsory in this summer... Because they will be the only form that the sportive direction have margin to inscribe to the footballers that have renewed recently his agreements (Gavi, Ronald Araújo, Marcos Alonso and Sergi Roberto) and to be able to go out to the market of signings with the security that, later, the players will be registered in LaLiga. In the club have put on the table several strategies to be able to 'paliar' the secondary effects or, at least, try it.

The Barça will ask an economic effort

Up to now, it had gone out to the light that the club had requested to all the areas an audit to have a thorough knowledge in what could recortar costs. It foresees that in the sections will have reductions, especially in the one of basketball, but the work 'thick' will be in the staff of the first team, whose mass salarial right now is desorbitada. In first instance, will try the sale of several footballers, but is not the only that will need the culés for reconducir his 'fair play' financial.

According to an information of 'Relief', from the Barcelona entity will begin to work to request a discount salarial collective, in 15%, to the players of the first team. Already they would have produced the first conversations with the surroundings of some players for 'tantear' the terrain of face to the negotiations that would take place very soon.

As it already happened in the beginning of the pandemia of the COVID-19 when Josep María Bartomeu was in the presidency, the club pretends to request to the players a significant economic effort for 'help' in the middle of the difficulties that will have in the next exercise and, in concrete, to square the accounts of the exercise. In this sense, will ask a discount that, to the equal that in 2020, could comport to a diferimiento of the payments in the next years for players whose agreements finalise after the summer of 2024.

The 'secret' of the discount salarial

The same source establishes that, in the case of the players that have agreement to the end of the next season, will have two stages because it will not be possible to differ the payments. The first is to ask them 'only' a cut of his wage, whereas they will have cases in which they will put on the table the possibility to extend the agreement by a year more (until the 2025) and that a percentage 'big' pay in the 2024-2025. Jordi Alba would be one of the cases.

Instead, for the footballers that have bond with the Barcelona picture further of the 2024, there would be a mix of discount and diferimiento so that the club pay them when it consider it more hit (or possible). In any case, the directors will expect to have a study detailed of the losses and forecast of income to move the proposal to the changing room, those who will have the last word. With this strategy, expect to save 170 million euros.