LaLiga announced the Sports Squad Cost Limit after the winter market (the famous salary limits). The team with the highest salary limit in the championship is still Real Madrid with 683 million. Barça falls slightly and goes from the 656 million limit it had in summer to 648 million.
The state of Barça now is not entirely bad because the levers are still in effect, but it is expected that in summer it will be much worse, now without the effect of these operations, and it will become overworked. Javier Tebas already warned that the Barça team He will have to reduce his salary mass by about 200 million euros for the next season.
Atlético, Sevilla y Villarreal complete the top5 (see table). The rojiblanco team is the one that has lost the most limit, going from 341 million to 315 million. Both Atlético and Sevilla and Barcelona, the three teams eliminated from the Champions League, have seen how this drop in Europe is reflected in their salary limits. In the case of the Madrid team, even more so, because they don’t even play in the Europa League.
The Sports Squad Cost Limit (LCPD) is what each club can spend at most on its squad based on its income and expenses. To calculate it, the budgeted income of each club is taken into account (income from subscriptions, from the box office, commercial contracts, television rights, player transfers, forecast of where they will arrive in the Champions League…) and non-expenses are subtracted from this. sports budgeted, the payment of the debts that you have and the losses that you carry over from the previous season. The result of this operation is the Sports Squad Cost Limit, which the club can spend on its squad.
The clubs do not have to consume the salary limit in its entirety. That’s the number they can spend on their squad at most, but they can spend less.
What does the LCPD include?
The sports squad cost limit includes spending on players, head coach, assistant coach and physical trainer of the first team (what is called a registrable squad) and also spending on subsidiaries, youth academy and other sections (non-registrable squad).
The concepts that are included in the cost limit of the registrable and non-registrable sports squad are: fixed and variable salaries, social security, collective bonuses, acquisition expenses (including commissions for agents) and amortizations (purchase amount of the players charged annually depending on the number of years of the player’s contract). The clubs do not have to consume the limit in its entirety.
Salary limits after the summer
This was the salary limits in LaLiga Santander and LaLiga Smartbank after the summer market.
