No matter where you look at the signing of Miralem Pjanic for Barça it was a ruinous business. That exchange with Juventus, which received 60 million plus five in variables, did not work on a sporting level, but it remained Arthur (paid 72 million plus 10 in variables) to allow the departure of the Bosnian midfielder.
It was Pjanic a player of fleeting step by the Camp Nou. He was barely a year before being transferred to Turkish Besiktas and this summer sold, without getting anything in return (freeing himself, yes, from his high profile), to Sharjah, from the United Arab Emirates. The problem for Barça is that it still owes money to five different teams, as revealed by Catalunya Ràdio, for the signing of the midfielder.
The largest amount of debt is, above all, with Juventus, to whom he still has to pay 36 million: 19 of them in the short term and 17 in the long term. Then, it drops, and notably, what he still has to pay to Metz (364,000 euros), Olympique de Lyon (333,000), Rome (192,000) and FC Schëffleng (161,000), a Luxembourg team where the Bosnian began his sports career .
108 million short-term debt
In the financial report received by the delegates who must attend the assembly to approve the accounts for last season and the budget for the current one on Sunday the 9th, and by telematic means, they will also verify that Barça must pay 52 million to Manchester city by Fernando Torres. A signing valued at 55 million plus 10 in variables, made last January. At the moment, the Barça club has only paid three million.
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Although the biggest Barça debt, after Ferran, is the one that Barça has with Ajax. He owes him 32 million for Frenkie de Jong and another 10 million more for Sergio Dest, who went on loan this summer to Milan. In the list of clubs that still have to receive Barça money, Liverpool appears. There are 14 million that are still pending the signing of Coutinho, also sold this summer to Aston Villa.
Barça has 108 million short-term debts, including the surprising 7.5 per Arthur to the Gremio de Porto Alegre, a player who signed in the summer of 2018. In return, the teams that have bought Barça players owe him 38 million.