Barcelona are thought to still owe as a lot as €144m on varied incoming transfers from years – together with €50m on Miralem Pjanic and Philippe Coutinho alone, each of whom have truly left Camp Nou in everlasting offers.
Barça made Coutinho probably the most costly gamers of all time after they agreed a cope with Liverpool in 2018 price as much as €160m. But issues rapidly soured for the Brazilian and he hung out on mortgage at Bayern Munich and Aston Villa, earlier than becoming a member of the latter for a minimal charge this 12 months.
Pjanic, in the meantime, was a part of a barely weird double deal in the summertime of 2020 that noticed the Catalans additionally ship Arthur Melo to Juventus.
AS has reported that Barça’s newest financial report, which is to be offered to members subsequent months, will clarify that the membership has excellent switch charges to be paid totalling €144m.
However, they’re additionally owed slightly below €130m themselves, with loads of fashionable offers organized with staggered cost buildings.
Aside from cash still owed for Pjanic (€36m) and Coutinho (€14m), Barça have €46m to pay Ajax for Frenkie de Jong and Sergino Dest. There is one other €52m that has to go to Manchester City for Ferran Torres. Yet Barça are but to be paid €10m for Coutinho by Aston Villa and also will obtain €6m for Trincao from Wolves in the end.
Barça’s funds are in significantly better form than they have been on the peak of the membership’s cash bother, however Camp Nou vice chairman of economics Eduard Romeu confirmed earlier this week that this chapter is still not over and extra must be finished.
“We have saved Barça, but we still haven’t resolved it,” Romeu defined. “We don’t have it healthy; it involves a lot of austerity, a lot of rigour and there is a lot of work to do. In the 2024/25 season we will be at the level that corresponds to us.”
