Posted December 8, 2021 at 1:10 pm by AC
FC Barcelona's accounts are at their worst and what President Joan Laporta would have done should not help matters …
If sportingly things are bad for FC Barcelona , the situation seems to be downright catastrophic at the economic level. We must not forget that this summer Mundo Deportivo announced that the club would have taken out a loan of € 595m, with an interest rate of 1.98% over 10 years. The salary cap set up by La Liga did not make things easier at all and this notably led to the departure of Antoine Griezmann towards Atlético from Madrid , but above all the impossibility of offering a new contract to Lionel Messi … who went to Paris Saint-Germain .
Barça could lose more than 20M €
This Wednesday, La Gazzetta dello Sport reveals another facet of this catastrophic management. According to daily information, Joan Laporta would have included in the balance sheet for the 2020/2021 season the bonus paid by UEFA for the clubs qualified in the round of 16 of the Champions League and which amounts to nearly € 9.6 million. That's not all, since the president of FC Barcelona would also have added that linked to the qualification for the quarter-finals of the same competition, estimated at € 10.6 million. However, Barça is not at all guaranteed to receive these two bonuses, since the team of Xavi is playing its European future against Bayern Munich this Wednesday evening! La Gazzetta therefore point out that an elimination would result in a net loss of more than € 20m which could seriously hurt the club's funds.