Barça leads the collapse of salary limits

Generalized collapse among salary cap figures established by LaLiga for each of the 42 clubs that are active in LaLigaSantander and LaLigaSmartbank, the two categories of Spanish professional football. In a context of strong economic recession derived from public limitations due to the covid-19 pandemic, the Barça It is undoubtedly the most affected club in terms of the ceilings of the items destined to the cost of staff.

The Barça entity has seen reduced by almost 50% his economic capacity for the chips of his first team, since it goes from the 671,429 million euros of salary cap for the 2019-20 season to the 382,717 of this academic year. A real snip of almost 289 million that explains the fact of letting important players like Luis Suárez, Arturo Vidal or Ivan Rakitic leave in the last summer market at zero or practically zero cost and that speaks clearly of the need that exists in the Catalan club to agree with the current squad, marked by astronomical contracts such as Messi, a new salary reduction.

The drastic decrease in Barça’s salary limit is part of a general downward trend among all the major Spanish clubs, but it is much more pronounced than that of Barça. Real Madrid, which also drops from 641,049 million last year to 468,529 current, with a loss of almost 172.5 million that is much less dramatic in terms of the numbers of his eternal rival. and that allows you to be at the forefront in terms of token spending capacity. Meanwhile, the Athletic remains in the third drawer of the podium, with a salary limit of 252.72 million euros, almost 96 less compared to 348.5 from last season.

Among the Champions clubs the Sevilla He is by far the best unemployed, because precisely the fact of going from playing his beloved Europa League to rubbing shoulders with the greats of the continent in the Champions League allows him not only to maintain his salary cap in full, but even increase it albeit only symbolically, since it goes from 185,166 to 185,809 million of euros.

On the other hand, the Valencia, precisely the club that leaves its Champions place to Sevilla: The Mestalla club passes a salary cap from 170.67 million to 103.39 of the present tamporada, a cut that places it in seventh place and that has forced the departure of basic players like Parejo, Rodrigo Moreno, Ferran Torres, Coquelin or Kondogbia and that force the Valencian team to substantially modify its sporting goals for this course.