The 'lever' of the VIP boxes would give Barça room to sign in January

The FC Barcelona board is confident in resolving, once and for all, its issues with financial 'Fair Play' through the sale of a significant number of VIP box seats over the next 20 years. The club will receive 120 million euros from the deal with a Qatari company, enough money to finalize the registrations of Dani Olmo and Pau Víctor, as well as providing Barça with enough salary margin to sign at least one reinforcement in January.

Initially, the azulgrana team did not plan to sign any players in the winter market. However, the activation of this 'lever' would achieve what was initially supposed to be resolved through the renewal with Nike. Barça still needs to receive €135 million corresponding to the sale of Barça Studios. Delays in payments from Socios.com and Orpheus Media (who only paid €10M each, out of the promised €200M), as well as from Libero Football (who only paid €20 of the €60M they were supposed to pay) left the club behind in terms of financial planning for the 2023/24 season.

Barça, attentive to new 'changes of mind' from LaLiga

Not for nothing, the club closed the previous fiscal year with losses of around €91M. To register Dani Olmo, it is initially enough to receive €60M. If LaLiga approves the income derived from the exploitation of the VIP boxes at the Estadi, the club could also go for a defender or a forward, according to the priorities set by the coaching staff led by Hansi Flick.

However, the azulgrana board does not trust LaLiga's criteria for counting their income. Initially, the league had explained to the club that the revenue from the new contract with Nike was sufficient to immediately return to the 1/1 rule. In the end, the distribution of the payments that the American brand will make led the organization presided over by Javier Tebas to take into account a minority percentage of the agreement in the 2024/25 fiscal year, since the bulk of the money will enter the club's coffers starting in the summer of 2028.

Additionally, delays in payments from Barça Studios also affect every euro that comes into the club's accounts. In this sense, Joan Laporta will wait until Tuesday to sign the documents that validate the sale of the VIP boxes, as the ruling from the Court of First Instance on the 'Olmo case' is expected on Monday. The precedent of the decision from Commercial Court number 10, which denied the precautionary measure for the midfielder, does not bode well for Barça regarding this route, but the club prefers to wait, as there is still one more day to resolve the registrations of the only two reinforcements signed last summer.