Barcelona plans to “operate without levers” next season
Última modificación October 18, 2023 by Drafting Fesp
Surely very few people imagined just ago 15 years, when he Barça reigned in the world of football, that today he was faced with an economic situation that seems to have the club hanging by a thread.
And we say pending because from within the entity they do not stop selling, between quotation marks, optimism. In fact, You just have to see the words of the economic vice president of the culé team Eduard Romeo.
The Barça manager recently appeared before some of the partners to present and explain all of the club's accounts. FC Barcelona, to which they must give approval.
In said appearance, Romeo has confessed what the main problem is today and what objective has been proposed by the Board of Directors led by Joan Laporta:
“The objective was to plug the drain of expenses, to those 200 million annually that the club has been losing since the season 2017-18, Because otherwise the club would not be viable.; straighten own funds, especially for investors; and third, deal with debt”.
It is expected that Barcelona's levers will pass on to a better life
According to these accounts, at Barça they have closed the exercise 22-23 with an income of 1.259 millions of euros, of which 400 They come from all the levers that they managed to activate during the last course, in which the club sold part of its assets in operations not exempt from controversy.
In this sense, Eduard Romeo states that the idea is that during this campaign the economy of the FC Barcelona is normalized and can, literally, “operate without levers”.
Another workhorse is in the wage bill, that continues to considerably diminish the azulgranas. If we take away the money that came in through those famous levers, the Barça generated a total of 859 million euros in the last financial year, of which even 676 they went in salaries. This is something that cannot be sustained in the long term., and so it has happened... Now, based on what you said Romeo, The intention is to considerably reduce the amount and instead of representing a 79% of the incomes, stay, at most, in a 57%.
Ojo, It is important to note that from the FC Barcelona They claim that there have been benefits of about 352 millions of euros, but if we take into account that there are 1.165 millions of expenses and that in the benefits there are 400 kilos coming from levers…, the scenario remains unflattering.
