The Blaugrana club has earned 707.5 million with the transfer of 25% of Barça Studios and 25% of television rights
And he still has two more to activate, since he has in reserve another package of 24.9% of Barça Studios and 49.9% of BLM
Joan Laporta, president of FC Barcelona, announced this Monday that the Blaugrana club has activated the third of the levers that it had prepared to give a change of direction to the economic situation. The transfer of 25 percent of Barça Studios to the company ‘Socios.com’ for one hundred million euros should allow Barça to register the five new additions (Robert Lewandowski, Jules Koundé, Andreas Christensen, Franck Kessie and Raphinha), as well as like the renewed Sergi Roberto and Ousmane Dembélé.
The Blaugrana club has needed barely a month to activate three of the levers that he had within his reach after having been approved in the last Extraordinary Assembly and in the General Assembly held in October. In total, it has earned 707.5 million euros after the transfer in two parts of 25% of the television rights to Sixth Street and 25% to Barça Studios.
And still have two more levers to activate, since it has in reserve another package of 24.9% of Barça Studios, as well as 49.9% of Barça Licensing & Merchandising (BLM), the company that manages the Blaugrana club stores.
FIRST LEVER
The first of the levers to be activated on June 29 was the sale of 10% of the television rights to the American Sixth St. for the next 25 years in exchange for 207.5 million euros.
Three weeks later, on July 22, the Blaugrana board made official the transfer of another 15% package to the same company for 25 years for 400 million euros.
And as soon as August starts laporta has made the agreement official with ‘Socios.com’ for 25% of Barça Studios in exchange for another 100 million euros.