His incorporation in January was almost ruled out after knowing the new salary limit of 270 million established by LaLiga
Barely 24 hours later, Xavi confirmed his incorporation at the request of the sports director, Deco.
Barça announced the signing of Vitor Roque on July 12. After some agile negotiations with Athlétic Paranaense, the agreement was closed at 30 million to which 31 more will be added depending on certain variables. The agreement stipulated that the forward would continue playing for Furacao until the opening of the winter market, when he would join the Blaugrana discipline with a contract for six seasons extendable to a seventh. In other words, until June 2031.
The name of Vitor Roque had to take a backseat beyond his good performances in the various Brazilian championships and the Copa Libertadores, where he accumulated 20 goals and eight assists in 41 games. But The young Brazilian talent has returned to the forefront of news following the new salary limit table announced on Thursday by LaLiga for this season that has just begun.
Despite its titanic efforts to reduce its wage bill, Barça has received a real blow by seeing its salary limit reduced by 379 million, going from the 649 it had in September of last year to 270 for this year. It has been of no use to him to reduce his salary bill by almost 160 million, leaving it at 404.7 ‘kilos’.
In total, the Blaugrana club continues to be well above the salary limit required by LaLiga, which means that in the next winter market it will once again be difficult to register new players. And this scenario includes the incorporation of Vitor Roque, who has experienced a curious turn of events. In just 24 hours, the Brazilian has gone from being ruled out for the next transfer window to once again being a sure reinforcement for the second part of the season..
After knowing the low salary limit decided by LaLiga, the Blaugrana club leaked that with these new conditions it would be very difficult to register Vitor Roque in January. But just 24 hours later, the coach of the Barcelona team, Xavi Hernández assured that nothing had changed regarding the incorporation of the Brazilian forward.
“At the moment, From the sports management Deco tells me that he is coming in January. Now we are who we are. We will see in January, but in principle there will be no problem. We will see the circumstances,” said Xavi, who hopes to be able to count on what would be Robert Lewandowski’s replacement.
Barça has three and a half months to create a new work of financial engineering that will allow it to register Vitor Roque as planned. Unless the president, Joan Laporta, or his sports director, Deco, have an ace hidden up their sleeve, the options to be able to count on the services of the Brazilian striker involve the sale of a footballer or a new extraordinary source of income that allows raise the current salary limit.