Josep Maria Bartomeu, former president of Barcelona, left a very heavy legacy in the hands of Joan Laporta. The salary mass of the Catalan squad is, at the moment, astronomical and the club’s financial debts are piling up. The total debt amounts to 1,173 million euros, 730 of which are short-term, and Laporta himself has already revealed that the state is “much worse” than he imagined.
According to Goal, Barcelona is not even authorized by La Liga to register the reinforcements it has already hired. The Catalans have surpassed the salary ceiling defined by the organization and are, for the time being, prohibited from proceeding with the bureaucracy to register Kun Aguero, Memphis Depay, Eric García and Emerson.
To free up wage bills, even to be able to renew with Lionel Messi, the Spanish club is seeking to free itself from the contracts of Phillipe Coutinho, Samuel Umtiti and Miralem Pjanic.
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