Barça have negative salary cap of 144 million euros, Real can spend 739 million | Foreign football

Barcelona’s limit has been gradually lowered in recent seasons due to financial difficulties. Last year it was 97 million euros. The amount was reduced further this time as the club’s losses were almost €240 million greater than what La Liga had estimated.

FC Barcelona can still attract new players but will be subject to further spending restrictions. The ability to add footballers depends on how much the club can save and earn.

Each Spanish League club has a different salary cap which is calculated based on a range of factors including income, expenses and debt. It is proportional to approximately 70% of a club’s revenue.

Sevilla had the second highest limit of 200 million euros, about 30 million euros more than Atlético Madrid’s limit. The La Liga club with the lowest salary cap after Barcelona is Levante with 32 million euros.

Barcelona, ​​which were unable to keep Lionel Messi in the roster at the end of last season, in part due to his spending cap, added four players during the winter transfer window: Ferran Torres, Dani Alves, Adama Traoré and Pierro-Emerick Aubameyang.

Club president Joan Laporta refinanced the club’s debt and worked to cut salaries by around €200 million. Gerard Pique, Sergio Busquets and Jordi Alba were among the players whose salaries were recently cut.

Most of the blame for Barcelona’s financial problems has been linked to former president Josep Bartomeu, who resigned in 2020 – denying wrongdoing – amid allegations of irregularities in his governance and a feud with Messi. The club’s debt amounted to 1.3 billion euros at one point.

At the end of this season, Barcelona was reportedly close to signing a new sponsorship and naming deal with streaming company Spotify to replace Rakuten, which could help significantly improve the club’s spending limit.

Barcelona was one of the clubs that refused to enter the league deal with private equity firm CVC to boost the clubs’ finances, saying it would not ultimately benefit the Catalan club.