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– LaLiga has published the salary limits of all the first-tier and second-tier clubs, revealing that Barcelona’s has been reduced further to -144 million euros.
– Javier Gomez, corporate general director of LaLiga, was in charge of explaining how this situation has come about and what a negative limit means for Barcelona.
– “The reduction of 242m means that it was estimated Barcelona would suffer smaller losses than has been the case,” he said.
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– “The negative limit doesn’t mean anything with regards to this season’s signings. It means there will be more of a limit in the coming seasons, unless there are capital gains or profits.”
– Gomez made clear that no club will have preferential treatment and assessed Barcelona’s possible intention to sign the CVC agreement.
– “The way to improve the limit is by having capital gains by either [signing the] CVC [agreement] or through other assets,” he added.
– “Capital increases would be another way to rebalance it, but not for Barcelona. There has been a deterioration in their net worth, which has to be recovered.”
– Regarding the impact of the negative salary limit on Barcelona’s transfer policy, Gomez explained that as long as the situation is similar, the only way will to sign players will be through the one for four rule reflected in Article 100.
– This means that for every euro Barcelona want to spend for a signing or a contract renewal, they need to earn four euros from sales or salary cuts.
– “For Barcelona, the only way to sign is this way until they recover all their signing capacity,” he noted.
