Lhe famous levers prevented the Only got into a big mess last season. The speech was already known, but when Eduard Romeoeconomic vice-president, has presented the accounts for the financial year 21-22, it has been possible to appreciate the importance of the operation in all its magnitude.
“Without the lever revenue, we would have lost $106 million last year and $210 million this year.“, explained Romeu, who will present these accounts to the partners at Sunday’s Assembly. “El Bara closed the 2021-22 financial year with 1,017 million revenues and 856 expenses.” As for the budget for the coming year, the forecast is to enter 1,255 million euros and spend 1,017 million euros. The result after taxes would be 274 kilos, according to the data presented today.
The salary mass has gone from representing 98% of the club’s income, to 68% (not counting the levers)
The great problem of the azulgranas is the wage bill, despite the fact that it has improved a lot in this matter. “It has gone from 98% of income to 68%”, not counting the levers. With them, it will be 51%.
The point is that there are contracts that next season will still go up, which will force the club to continue looking for extra income to cushion its effect. “We were in the ICU and now we are on the ward. There is still much work to be done. Numbers are capricious and always come back. This season and the next we will have to use some mechanism to get to the point where we want to be the next year”, in reference to the possibility of having to resort again to the sale of assets. “A lever can also be the sale of a player”, pointed out
The idea is that the situation is channeled from the 24-25 season. “If we follow the table of contract expirations, this year and next year we still have salary costs above what we have in mind. Until the 24-25 season the situation will not be normalized”.
This season and the next we will have to use some mechanism to get the next course to the point where we want to be.
The objective that is marked in the Barça entity is that the wage bill be placed at “500 million euros: 420 for the first team and 80 between youth football and sections”.
Win LaLiga, an ‘obligation’
It would help all of this that the team achieve on the pitch the results that the club has projected in the offices when doing their accounts. “Last season, the impact of the elimination in the group stage was 12 million euros. We count the income that we did not have, but also the expenses that we saved. This year, we contemplate winning the League and reaching the quarterfinals of the Champions League“, admitted Romeo.
With this need for income, at Bara they continue to think about Super League. “Now we do not contemplate it, but any rethinking would be positive. Our will would be an agreement so that the clubs that generate the most are the ones that receive the most. Any movement will be better than the one we have”.
