FC Barcelona will soon make official the transfer of Ferran Jutglà to Bruges. His departure to the Belgian club will leave the Barça coffers with around six million euros, a very respectable figure if one takes into account that the Osona striker arrived at the Barcelona subsidiary for free last summer. Jutglà, trained in the Espanyol youth academy, joins a list of players who have gone through Barça B who have given the Barça club a good financial return in recent years.
For a long time now, the quarry or the reserve team has not only served as a launch pad for players for the first team, but has also become a way of obtaining economic resources, however small they may be. It must be borne in mind that the sale of a player trained at the Masía is ordinary income because the investment made in all the years of training is not valued in the books.
Pedro is still the player who has passed through the subsidiary that has left the most money. His transfer to Chelsea for 28 million in 2015 exceeds the 25 that Bayern Munich paid to take Thiago two years earlier. The Canarian winger had lost his place at Barça and wanted to seek a new experience, while in the case of the oldest of the Alcántara the reason for his goodbye was the little prospect of playing with Xavi, Cesc and Iniesta ahead and that the club wanted money.
Without reaching the figures of the first two, the numbers in the transfers of Ilaix Moriba to Leipzig for 16 million, Carles Pérez to Roma for 13, Cucurella for 11.80 to Getafe, Denis Suárez to Celta for 12.90, Deulofeu’s to Watford for 13 and Adama’s to Aston Villa for 10. A little below are the 8 that Borussia Dortmund paid for Marc Bartra, the same amount that Sporting de Braga paid for keeping Abel Ruiz as property, the 5 that Getafe paid for Carles Aleñá and the 4 of Betis for Tello.
The reality is that the Barça club makes money with those players for whom it does not see a future in the first team and that is why it got rid of Konrad de la Fuente, who signed for Olympique de Marseille for 3 million, Akieme left in the box 3.5 after leaving for UD Almería, Cardona went to Osasuna for 2.5 million and Palencia to St-Étienne for 2. Munir, another of the promises who failed to establish himself in the first team, was transferred to Sevilla for 1 0.05 million euros in a winter market, Rafinha went to PSG for 1.5 million and after many transfers, Bojan completely disassociated himself from Barça when he signed for Stoke City for 1.8 million euros.
Continuing with this policy, Barça already has an agreement for the sale of Jutglà and hopes to earn some money with the departures of Mingueza and Riqui Puig, two players who also played for the Barça subsidiary.