How much will FC Barcelona earn in fair play for the departures of Roque, Lenglet and Faye?

The FC Barcelona board has not stopped working in what will be the most critical week of the transfer market. The Catalans must reach 1/1 and achieve financial fair play before August 30 in order to be able to register Dani Olmo and sign other players. The departures of Mika Faye, Vitor Roque and Clément Lenglet have improved the situation, although there is still some work to be done to achieve the objective.

Lenglet was loaned to Atlético de Madrid and there are two different concepts involved in the situation of the Catalans. On the one hand, the expense is reduced by extending his current contract from two to three years, which generates a reduction of about 6 million euros, which is recovered in favor of 1/1. There is also the margin in favor of fair play that the French center back leaves by going to another team and being registered with Barcelona. This is about 60% of the cost of the salary and amortization of the part of the fee that the colchonero team assumes, since the rest will continue to be paid by the culé club.

How do Roque and Faye contribute to 'fair play'?

If we talk about Roque and Faye, we have to mention two different contexts. In the case of the Brazilian, who was loaned to Real Betis, there is only the expense that is removed by signing for another club, since his new team will assume his fee for the 2024-2025 season, since the forward was not registered in the squad of Hansi Flick's team. It does help in the search for 1/1, but Barça does not receive a percentage in terms of salary or amortization of capital that it can use to register or sign.

Finally we have the case of Faye, who was transferred on August 25 to Rennes. The Senegalese was also not registered in the first team, so the same thing happens with Roque in relation to salary. This means that it reduces spending but does not leave a percentage to register or sign, although, when transferred, the club receives 20% of the total that is set at 12 million euros, which means about 2.4 million euros in favor of the culé team. Without a doubt, good moves, but others will have to continue to be made to finally solve the biggest headache that Barcelona has had in recent years.