At a press conference, Reverter now lays the cards on the table about the finances of the Spanish big club in football.
He says that when the new old chairman Joan Laporta took over in March, the club had debts of the equivalent of SEK 13.7 billion and it was difficult to pay salaries for a period.
During the pandemic year last year, SEK 4.9 billion was lost.
According to Reverter shows the club’s finances from 2018 to March 2021 that there were major administrative shortcomings and that directors were completely out of the world when they bought players.
– When you bought players, no one considered whether you could pay for them. The same evening that Antoine Griezmann wrote, it was discovered that there was no money to pay with, he says.
Griezmann is now on loan at Atlético Madrid. Barcelona also had to let Lionel Messi leave for Paris Saint-Germain as they could not afford to keep him.
Despite the financial difficulties, the Spanish big club hopes to make a profit of SEK 50 million this season.
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