Anyone who still claims that the “new” management has to make up for the mistakes of the old ones and do it better has lost all touch with reality, just like those responsible for Barca.
Superlatives are mismanaged here, so much so that one should actually assume that one is playing Operation Scorched Earth.
Around 1.35 billion in debt plus the loan for the stadium renovation of 900 million to 1.5 billion – that’s no longer in proportion.
I doubt that the stadium will actually be worth at least this loan after the renovation, so I don’t see any meaningful increase in value.
You sell off your future like there is no tomorrow. Sells the income of the future, still doesn’t make ends meet and then at some point the income that has already been sold is missing?
Instead of doing something useful with the money, you continue to live far beyond your means because you wouldn’t want it any other way.
I imagine this in the “normal” world. I have a ***** full of debt and am selling parts of my future salary. Instead of using the money to pay off debts or make a profitable investment, I buy a new TV, a big PC and take out 3 more subscriptions, although I couldn’t afford the 5 subscriptions I already had.
You have now put yourself in such a modest situation that when you sell the VIP lounges you are now being pushed from 200 million to 100 million and you basically have to accept it.
At the same time, you can celebrate for such deals.
People here are laughing and running into the circular saw.
Loss of reality, megalomania or whatever else you want to call it, everything flows together
Planned or sustainable work is apparently just as foreign a concept as debt reduction or moderation.
Now using Olmo as an example, this stupid clause that he can leave for free. Of course, this may be a kind of pro forma matter, but if I, as the person responsible, see even the slightest chance that it could be drawn, then I will try everything possible to make this clause disappear.
But of course not the financial experts from FC Barcelona, they ruin 50 million transfers after less than 6 months so that you can’t even get a fraction back. Risks of having to pay out wages until the end of the contract for a player who can then no longer bring me any added value.
In a panic to somehow get the cow off the ice – the problem with the registration was known and didn’t arise at short notice – I let myself be carried away by a panic sale of my VIP lounges and burn another 100 million.
Actually, it is no longer possible to describe in words what is going wrong and how extremely ridiculous you are making yourself with this nonsense.
The first part fits with the leadership, but otherwise, on the whole, of course the general “making Barca look ridiculous”.
Barcelona should now sign players like Haaland, but not Olmo Register.
So you’re not currently living above your means, just stupid rules that 70% of La Liga clubs have to deal with because they’re mostly ridiculous.
The Olmo transfer will not have ruined them either. Maybe there is only a 10-20% chance that it will work out, but since Olmo wants to stay, he will let himself be loaned out for 6 months in that case and, if necessary, get a small bonus from Barcelona.
The advisor is of course smart and has something like that built in because he knows the risks with La Liga clubs that are not called Real Madrid, but moving was and is certainly not planned and in the end you find another solution.
Many of the things sold in Barcelona were founded by themselves and you can also “invent” new things that ultimately have value. And the remaining things run for a few years until you have all the income again. And selling a few rights for a few years in order to get through a financial crisis so that you can now make top transfers again is what any other top 3 world club would do the same if they were in the same shoes. The problem is how it got here, not how it was solved.
In the end it’s Barcelona’s own fault, but La Liga is also really bad when it comes to these issues.