I assume that Barcelona shouldn't really be doing stuff like this if they were taking care of their economy. I mean lets be real, this is the team that wins La Liga quite commonly, which means they should be making a ton of money from that alone, but they also go to quarter finals and above on champions league pretty commonly as well and they also end up winning it time to time too as we all know.
When you combine all of this and their worldly known status, I would say that Barcelona probably has a ton of revenue and income. What type of costs do they have to say that they need to clear the books and make it look like they are profiting a lot? I mean is it the high salaries? Is it something else? This team really should be raking in cash, how are they needing stuff like this?
When you combine all of this and their worldly known status, I would say that Barcelona probably has a ton of revenue and income. What type of costs do they have to say that they need to clear the books and make it look like they are profiting a lot? I mean is it the high salaries? Is it something else? This team really should be raking in cash, how are they needing stuff like this?
Besides their success in La Liga (and UCL), Barcelona also has transfer spendings like only a few other teams in the world (not even talking about salaries). And let's be honest. Their signings over the last couple of years were all underwhelming considering how much money they spend on them. After the season 2014/15 they signed, amongst others, Arda Turan (34 million euros), Aleix Vidal (17 million euros), Andre Gomes (37 million euros), Paco Alcacer (30 million euros), Lucas Digne (16.5 million euros) or Malcom (41 million euro). None of these had any real impact.
The ones I listed above were only the cheap "mispurchases". Of course there was also Philippe Coutinho, a 145 millio euro transfer who is now on loan at Bayern Munich and it looks like Bayern doesn't want to sign him and Barca doesn't want him to come back either. An pretty expensive misunderstanding for Barcelona. Another example is Ousmane Dembelé. Once he forced his 125 million euro transfer from Dortmund by staying away from the team training, now he showed similar behaviour in Barcelona when he didn't attend a video conference in April (the whole team but him was present). Reportedly Barca wants to get rid of him again but no one is willing to pay the 60 million they ask for a player with his history (medical and behaviour).
And that Setien, as head coach, said publicly yesterday that he thought it would destabilize the team if he brings Griezmann is just the icing on the cake. Yes, he's talking about Antoine Griezmann, the striker who came from Atletico for 120 million euro! Did the officials at Barcelona only realize the doesn't really fit into their team after they transfered the money to Madrid?
