Barça’s salary cap is plummeting and Madrid could spend seven times as much

Javier Tebas, at a League event in Madrid
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The salary cap of the staff of the Barça it plummeted 71%, from 347.1 million euros in January to just 97.9. LaLiga has revealed that the Madrid he can now spend seven times more than Barça. Whites have gone from being able to spend 473.3 million in January to 739 in September, up 56%. The economic lot he left Josep Maria Bartomeu has caused a debt of 1.35 billion and that Barça will go from being the second club with the highest cost margin in LaLiga’s staff in the seventh.

In second place is the Sevilla, to which LaLiga has increased its available limit by 20 million euros, so it exceeds theAthletic of Madrid, to which the employer has cut its cost limit by 46 million, from the 217 it had in January to the current 171. They also increased their chances of spending on footballers and coaches on Real Village, from 142 to 159 million; the Royal Society, from 95 to 127 million andAthletic Club, with a slight increase of one million in its limit, from 110.7 to 111.8.

After Barcelona, ​​the next club with the largest margin to spend on footballers is theSpanish, with 77.8 million euros available, 33 million more than it had in January last year, when it competed in LaLiga Smartbank (Second Division). The club with the least amount available to spend in the staff of the first category of Spanish football is the Valencia, which is also suffering a dramatic cut in its cost limit, from 93.1 million in January 2021, to 30.9 with which it now has, 67% less.