At some point you would think the league would step in. And you have to wonder why anyone would agree to terms with them.

Laporta announces 100 million deal with Socios as Barca's third lever - altho that deal not fully done yet and not at all clear it'll work with La Liga to register new players https://t.co/gkHE8aoi2O

— Dermot Corrigan (@dermotmcorrigan) August 1, 2022

Once again another lever is activated and money is about half of what Laporta promised. This is brutal to watch.

They are literally selling off their future revenue hoping to generate cash for this year. That's not a viable long term strategy. It's a house of cards.

How long will La Liga let this go on? They must have a money printer down stairs at Camp Nou.

It's behind the Athletic firewall but if you have access make sure you read their breakdown of the giant pile of **** Barca has made for itself.

https://theathletic.com/3468740/2022/08/03/barcelona-money-finances-crisis/?source=user_shared_article

ChipFTAC01 said:

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It's behind the Athletic firewall but if you have access make sure you read their breakdown of the giant pile of **** Barca has made for itself.

https://theathletic.com/3468740/2022/08/03/barcelona-money-finances-crisis/?source=user_shared_article

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Maybe two articles worth reading? I don't have a sub either but they approached uefa about using future champions league income as collateral?

https://theathletic.com/3472098/2022/08/03/barcelona-champions-league-uefa-loan/

They reference that in my article and uefa was apparently like GFTO. First off, you aren't guaranteed those future CL monies. And Barca seemed surprised that uefa would even have a problem with the request.

These dudes need to keep hanging on and fight.

Reports coming out around Barcelona all summer are so, so gross. Braithwaite deserves every penny of the contract. So does Frenkie de Jong. So does everyone else.

Barca want money back as they spend $50m on Lewandowski & negotiate contracts (illegally) for players at other club? https://t.co/kuW8oVtFY8

— Tom Bogert (@tombogert) August 3, 2022

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These dudes need to keep hanging on and fight.

Reports coming out around Barcelona all summer are so, so gross. Braithwaite deserves every penny of the contract. So does Frenkie de Jong. So does everyone else.

Barca want money back as they spend $50m on Lewandowski & negotiate contracts (illegally) for players at other club? https://t.co/kuW8oVtFY8

— Tom Bogert (@tombogert) August 3, 2022

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I'm really shocked they haven't come together and filed a lawsuit against the club.

Yeah I've wondered that too and come to the conclusion that Barca must have something in writing that would make their case not stand. Maybe emails/texts during Covid when players would clearly have a spirit of "I'll agree to whatever - I just want to play again."

So if their legal case isn't strong, their only recourse is to hold Barca hostage and prevent them from registering players. The club can line up transfer deals all day long, but at the end of the day, if the player doesn't agree then it ain't gonna happen.

Hala Madrid!

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La Liga have rejected Barcelona's attempts to register 5 summer signings (Lewandowski, Kounde, Raphinha, Kessie, Christensen) and 2 contract renewals (Dembele, S Roberto). Club must raise more funds before league campaign gets underway in 8 days.News (mirror.co.uk)

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Beautiful. So as it stands, those players would only be eligible for cup matches and CL games

Difference pic.twitter.com/2x8zUP3OPH

— Troll Football (@TrollFootball) August 5, 2022

Lest everyone forget that Barcelona used a loophole to get Braithwaite in the first place from Leganes who was fighting to stave off relegation and in turn were not allowed to sign a replacement.

I have to think that if Barca were in England they would be subject to massive points deductions for financial ****housery.

They might be doing enough to get in trouble even in Spain…

Incredible. Spanish radio claim Barcelona jointly set-up a holdings company to which it paid €150m of its own money to buy its own assets (to inflate value of sale). La Liga rejected it as not "new" money. Barça must now pay €37.5m tax on this payment.https://t.co/tCBQH64e3Z

— Colin Millar (@Millar_Colin) August 8, 2022

And declaring de jong's contract renovation illegal?

https://as.com/futbol/el-barca-amenazo-a-de-jong-n/

Just came here to post this. Barca continues to astonish.

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This is why they need Super League (and I bet anything Real Madrid is in a rough position too). When they said Super League is needed because soccer clubs would collapse without it, it's because Barca and Real spent like crazy without any repercussions for so long. They think they are soccer and if they're in trouble then everyone else must be in trouble too.

Hate the lot of 'em.

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RM isn't as bad. Brought in alaba and rudiger on the free. Have bale, isco, Marcelo rolling off in salary. Remember we sold Ronaldo for $100MM to Juve. We make a lot of cash on sales of younger players. Getting fees on sales of guys that pass through as well. We can splash for one or two in the market a year.

Edit: barca just now switched to that model but out of necessity.

Edit 2: forgot selling varane and letting Ramos go. Those were big salaries too. We have a lot of young talent right now that isn't high salary like those guys. Wingers and mids.

I absolutely don't get it. How can you trust the club?

Especially with the money they owe guys like de Jong for deferring their salary. That's why they are trying to sell him so badly. They don't wanna have to pay his deferred salary.

Just wanting to follow this nonsense as it's fascinating to me...keep it coming!

Lol at lumping RM with Barca. Madrid's books are pristine compared to many clubs, especially the Catalonians. Regularly winning the CL will do that.

Edit: And five people starred that post. Good stuff!

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I absolutely don't get it. How can you trust the club?

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Go another step. How can you trust the agents? They know the situation too. I mean we know where Deco's loyalty lies when he takes no cut from raphinha but he's getting paid somewhere for it. The rest I'm really curious about. Barca supposedly promised lewa he'd be registered first but what other guarantees are floating out there? What did they promise kounde to tempt him from Chelsea with a new owner and stable paychecks?

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Lol at lumping RM with Barca. Madrid's books are pristine compared to many clubs, especially the Catalonians. Regularly winning the CL will do that.

Edit: And five people starred that post. Good stuff!

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Real is not near as in a bad of shape as Barcelona but they are not in good shape either. They had to sell a 30% stake in it's $1billion renovation of Bernabeu, giving up it's stadium revenues (minus tickets), in order to have money and go ahead from the league to spend this transfer window. And it only did that by recognizing that revenue this year even though the renovation won't be complete until 2023/24. The debt they're carrying is 4th in the world behind Chelsea, Tottenham, and Barcelona.

As much as I don't like Perez, he at least saw it coming and stopped spending in 2019.

my youngest son (FTAC '24) did his part to help Barca by attending the match against Pumas yesterday at Camp Nou. he was about 10 rows up from the corner where Lewandowski celebrated his 3rd minute goal.

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my youngest son (FTAC '24) did his part to help Barca by attending the match against Pumas yesterday at Camp Nou. he was about 10 rows up from the corner where Lewandowski celebrated his 3rd minute goal.

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How were the pumas fans? I assume more of them attended than cules.

i was texting him during the game, asking what color shirt he was wearing so i could try to find him in a replay of the Lewandowski goal.. he said, "It's 5 vertical stripes w 3 shades of blue then yellow and red."