Barcelona, ​​in a critical situation: it has not yet reduced its wage bill and cannot register its reinforcements

With Lionel Messi out, the problems of the Barcelona they are just beginning. The club that a decade ago was the model in world football, is currently drowning in debt, without its highest figure, with interns within the leadership and exceeding its budget for salaries. That is why at this time the Camp Nou offices are burning trying to solve at least the most urgent problems. Among them, the one that most worries in the immediacy is the impossibility of using their reinforcements.

In this transfer market, the Catalan team hired the Dutch Memphis Depay, to the Argentine Sergio Aguero, to the Brazilian Emerson and to spanish Eric García. However, none of these signings were approved by La Liga, whose contest begins this weekend. On Sunday, the team led by Ronald Koeman will host Real Sociedad and the coach still does not know if he will be able to use these players.

In order to do so, the club must drastically reduce its payroll. According to the main Spanish portals, the plan for this to take effect is to give a loan to Samuel umtiti Y Miralem Pjanic, who could land on the Juventus. The problem with the French defender is that his salary is around USD 19 million and no club intends to pay him such a figure, so he prefers to remain at Barcelona despite not being taken into account.

But these two possible outputs are not enough. From the leadership they seem to have given up on possible offers to sell these footballers and the same happens with Philippe Coutinho, who has a salary of more than USD 17.5 million per year.

For this reason, the leadership of Joan Laporta is conducting negotiations with Gerard Piqué, Jordi Alba, Sergi Roberto and Sergio Busquets, who would be willing to renegotiate their contracts and lower their salaries to give the club a break. However, the talks for now are just that. Therefore, everything remains the same.

To take dimension of the situation of the BarcelonaAccording to estimates based on the balance of the 2019/20 season and taking into account the arrivals and departures of this transfer market, the current wage bill is around USD 585 and 610 million. While La Liga imposed a cap of USD 439 million. That is picture blaugrana it is exceeded between USD 146 and 171 million.

In this context, Barcelona cannot register their reinforcements and have only three days left before their debut in La Liga. The local media assure that the objective of the managers is to achieve that Depay be accepted to play this weekend against Real Sociedad, while they would take more time to make a place for the When Omen, who because of being injured still cannot play.

The transfer market ends at the end of the month, so the club has until August 31 to renegotiate contracts and get rid of some players. However, with this panorama, there is already speculation about what will happen in the event that the Culé team does not normalize their situation and La Liga does not approve their signings. In case that happens, Depay, Agüero, Emerson Y Garcia They will not be able to play the tournament, although they could be included to play the Copa del Rey, which depends on the Royal Spanish Football Federation, and the Champions League, organized by UEFA.

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