Warning light in Barcelona: why Sergio Agüero will not be registered yet as a signing

The economic crisis continues to hit Barcelona hard. After losing Lionel Messi, one of the most important footballers in the history of the Catalan entity as a result of not being able to comply with the Financial Fair Play, the club works against the clock to be able to have its reinforcements for the debut in La Liga in Spain. They will debut next Sunday, from 15 (Argentine time), receiving in the Camp Nou to the Royal Society.

As reported by the media Sport Y Sports world, Directive Culé trusts to have everything in order to be able to have the central defender available on the first day of the tournament Eric García (free from Manchester City) and Memphis Depay (free from Lyon).

However, they clarify that Sergio Aguero (currently injured) must wait until Barcelona make an exit movement that allows balancing the balance to be officially registered. It is worth remembering that the current pass market ends on August, 31 and from the Blaugrana They trust that some surnames will leave that will allow the institution to reduce salaries.

“The club is clear that it meets all the requirements to be able to formalize its registration in La Liga but it does not have that one hundred percent security”, the journalist Fernando Polo clarified in the newspaper Sports world on the situation in Memphis and Garcia. The scenario, then, is more alarming for him. When beyond that the club has a time advantage because the Argentine will remain around two months in recovery from a tendon injury in the inner calf of the right leg.

The same medium insists anyway that “No problem”In adding him later to the payroll because he is still injured and ensures that “The club does not consider not registering him despite his injury”.

The leaders seek to make money with some of the footballers who are not a priority for the Dutch coach Ronald Koeman, such as the French defender Samuel umtiti or the Brazilian midfielder Philippe Coutinho. So far only the sales of Junior Firpo to Marcelo Bielsa’s Leeds (15 million euros), Jean-Clair Todibo al Nice (8.5) and Carles Aleñá al Getafe (5).

At the historic press conference in which he announced the salute of the flea, President Joan Laporta clarified that the signings would be able to be registered although he did not show complete certainty: “According to our calculations, yes. The salary, deserved, of Leo Messi is not the same as the magnitude of the salaries of the new players that we have incorporated, whom I want to thank because their incorporation met a series of circumstances that make it possible for them to enter the salary limit. We hope that there are no problems here, because that is precisely why these players have made these efforts.”.

To make clear the economic problems that the club is going through, the manager graphed: “To give you an idea, the salary limit that we could face is 4 to 1. To have 25 million salary, we have to release 100. That’s a lot of players. The sports management is working to reduce the salary bill and there are some players with whom we have reached an agreement, but with others it is not so easy ”.

A different case is that of Emerson Royal, the other “new face” of the first team. The Brazilian right-back was previously registered because he returned to the institution after passing through Betis.

It is worth noting that the salary cap was established in 2013 by Javier Tebas, president of La Liga. In this measure, a fixed amount established does not govern, but rather each club was allowed to present its own balance sheets and deduct based on them what was the expense that they could allocate to the payment of salaries (they include the salaries of players, body technical and physical trainers, expenses in subsidiaries, quarry and other sports sections, as established in article 34.1).

The mismanagement of Josep María Bartomeu (he resigned in 2020) left an alarming situation in Barcelona. In the balance of January, the Catalan institution published an economic report corresponding to the 2019/20 season that showed a debt of 196.7 million euros (USD 238.8 million) only in player transfers. In turn, it increased net debt by 55.5% in a single campaign, and raised it to 488 million euros (USD 592.4 million). Short-term debt also increased by 31% to 731 million euros (USD 887.4 million).

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