To replenish the club’s coffers this summer, FC Barcelona could be forced to sell no less than 18 players.
The situation is starting to get tricky at FC Barcelona. According to the first results of the audit on the finances of the club carried out by the new president Joan Laporta, the Blaugrana will have to sell during the summer transfer window to replenish the coffers. Barça, not spared by the crisis generated by the Covid-19 pandemic, must find enough to meet a colossal debt of more than one billion euros. Based on information from Goal, the Catalan club are preparing to put 18 players on the transfer list this summer in a last-ditch maneuver.
Among the players pushed towards the exit by Ronald Koeman and the leaders, we find Junior Firpo, Martin Braithwaite, Samuel Umtiti but also immense stars such as Philippe Coutinho, recruited for 135 million euros in 2018, the French Antoine Griezmann or again the legend of the club, Sergio Busquets. To compensate for the departure of so many players, Barça should reinvest a small part of the profits, especially since the club has just missed out on the free transfer of Georginio Wijnaldum – who signed up this Thursday with PSG – and that his compatriot Memphis Depay, also free of any contract, is getting dangerously close to Juventus Turin.
