New LaLiga specifications
FC Barcelona are surprisingly free to spend this season after selling numerous assets and leaving almost 20 professionals. Spain’s LaLiga has significantly raised the Catalans’ salary spending limit for the current season, as announced on Friday. Accordingly, Barça was allowed to spend 656 million euros on players and employees.
That’s a huge jump after the club’s spending limit was still negative in the spring – at -144 million euros – due to massive debts. “Barcelona’s losses are greater than their ability to generate revenue. (…) It is very clear that in order to make purchases, the club must reduce its expenses or generate more income,” said league general director Javier Gómez in mid-March. Now there has been a jump of 800 million euros. Only champions Real Madrid are ahead of the Blaugrana.
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In order to recover somewhat from their financial difficulties, the club sold 25 percent of their national television rights and other assets for a total of around 870 million euros in the summer. Barça recently spent 153 million euros in transfer fees for the transfers of ex-Bayern attacker Robert Lewandowski, winger Raphinha and defender Jules Koundé and brought in Franck Kessié, Andreas Christensen, Héctor Bellerín and Marcos Alonso for free.
Each Spanish club has a different spending limit depending on the revenue/expenses ratio and liabilities (for explanation). Compared to FC Barcelona, there was a minus for Primus Real Madrid, the “Royal” are allowed to spend a little more than 50 million euros less than before, and are now around 683 million euros.
Correction: First it said that Real would post an increase of 100 million euros, but this number came from an older statement
Salary cap in LaLiga: All 20 clubs at a glance
Real Madrid: 683,462,000 euros
FC Barcelona: 656,429,000 euros
Atlético Madrid: 341,040,000 euros
Sevilla FC: 199,885,000 euros
Villarreal FC: 151,206,000 euros
Real Sociedad: 134,199,000 euros
Athletic Bilbao: €127,120,000
Real Betis: 96,725,000 euros
Valencia FC: 75,835,000 euros
Espanyol Barcelona: 72,737,000 euros
Getafe FC: 69,070,000 euros
Celta Vigo: 63,855,000 euros
CA Osasuna: 52,134,000 euros
UD Almeria: 50,749,000 euros
Rayo Vallecano: 49,903,000 euros
RCD Mallorca: 49,692,000 euros
Real Valladolid: €46,686,000
Cadiz FC: 45,977,000 euros
FC Girona: 42,724,000 euros
FC Elche: 42,672,000 euros
In comparison: This is what the laLiga salary caps looked like in March 2022
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