Barcelona Of the nineteen players with professional records that make up the Barça 2023-2024 squad, five are new faces acquired and registered during the summer market: Iñigo Martínez, Gündogan, Oriol Romeu, Cancelo and João Félix. There is another one, Vitor Roque, which the club closed and announced in July. However, unlike the others, it has not been recorded in the last one slot of registered players in the Spanish League. The young Brazilian striker (18 years old) has been loaned to Athletico Paranaense, with whom he was recently eliminated from the Copa Libertadores, because Barça did not have enough salary cap to take on his registration. But the sports management will move heaven and earth to add him to the team in the winter market.
There are weighty sporting and economic reasons to speed up the arrival of Vitor Roque. Let’s start with the second ones, which in Barça’s current situation are almost more important than the first ones. As the entity continues to exceed in terms of fair play financially because of the drop in income following the exile in Montjuïc and the effects of the sale of 25% of the television income to Sixth Street, he has to work with a scalpel when planning registrations. In this sense, there is a rule of the economic control of the League that benefits Barça when it comes to materializing the arrival of the attacker in January and that is that, since the release would be in the middle of the season, he would only be obliged to secure the payment of the annual percentage of the player’s salary and amortization and one more campaign. Postponing the registration until next summer, Barça would have to demonstrate in the eyes of the League that it is able to pay for two full exercises, which could condition the viability of other operations.
To aspire to sign Vitor Roque in January, Barça, who have exceeded the salary limit, will have to generate savings worth 50% or 30% more of the space they need for the Brazilian striker. Exits or renewals will be required to space payments, to achieve this goal. Likewise, the leverage from Barça Vision, which has arrears, will help improve the club’s margin not only for the new striker, but also to regularize Gavi’s situation and materialize the improvement and expansion of Xavi and his assistants.
Lewandowski, tempted by petrodollars
The sporting argument to confirm the signing of Vitor Roque in January is much simpler. After the closing of the latest FIFA window, the first team squad has been left with just four strikers with professional records for three positions: Lewandowski, Ferran Torres, João Félix and Raphinha. The fifth man in attack is a 16-year-old bearded man: Lamine Yamal. Therefore, given the lack of cash, the arrival of a sixth player is imposed so that the rotation is more successful. In addition, in the sports area, it is becoming clearer every day that Lewandowski, who will be 36 years old, needs a specific replacement that is not currently available in the team. For an age issue and also because petrodollars can tempt him. In the last few weeks of the summer market he received offers to go to Saudi Arabia and turned them all down. But that doesn’t mean he can’t change his mind in January, despite having a contract with Barça until 2026.
As reported Sports worldVitor Roque will sign a six-season contract with an option, which will also help to space out both the amortization and salary that entry, the newspaper reported Sport, will be 3.5 million gross per year. The cost of the operation, which the agent André Cury agreed with Deco, will be 30 million fixed and 31 variable to be divided into several concepts.
2023-09-13 05:44:17
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