08/06/2021 17:08
Clarín.com
sports
Updated 08/06/2021 17:08
Little by little, the page will have to turn.
The figure of Lionel Messi has already disappeared from the official website of Barcelona, several colleagues are communicating with the Argentine to say goodbye, but a feeling of disbelief continues to be felt at the magnitude of the news.
Was over.
Messi will not play in Barcelona anymore
.
What are the keys to this world football bombshell?
The heavy Bartomeu heritage
It was part of Laporta's speech to explain Messi's departure.
“We have received a disastrous inheritance and the sports salary bill represents 110% of the club's income.
We have no salary margin.
The rules that govern LaLiga mark some limitations
”, he said.
It is known that in the Josep María Bartomeu cycle the club spent money like never before in its history and that despite millionaire departures like Neymar's to PSG for more than 200 million euros, the coffers were devastated.
At this point, questions arise: if Barcelona knew about its poor financial outlook a long time ago, why did it bring in other footballers before trying to fasten Messi's continuity?
And why does he throw in the towel on August 5 when he has room until the last day of the month to register players, and in that period try to purify the squad and ensure that the salary bill includes the renewal of the Argentine?
The former president of FC Barcelona Josep Maria Bartomeu.
Photo: DPA
Barcelona does not want to be part of the LaLiga-CVC agreement
If the Catalan club registered Messi's contract, it implicitly accepted the agreement of the tournament regulator with the British Investment Fund, a link that spans 50 years and is announced as an economic injection for the clubs.
Both Barcelona and Real Madrid marked their opposition to the agreement.
"If we wrote down Messi, it would go through accepting an agreement that did not benefit Barça. We made Barça's audiovisual rights (LaLiga-CVC agreement) available for half a century, we understand that we don't have to do it," said Laporta.
Now
the question will be to know if the Investment Fund maintains its offer knowing that the product will no longer have Messi
.
The president of FC Barcelona, Joan Laporta, gives a press conference to explain the reasons why Argentine striker Lionel Messi will not renew for the Barça team.
Photo: EFE / Alejandro García
An expensive campus that was not dismantled
For a long time from Spain, to the rhythm of the weak results of the team, it is repeated that Barcelona must purify the squad, renew the payroll with fewer and higher quality footballers.
The mission could not be carried out: that departure of Luis Suárez was only a bad maneuver that ended with the Uruguayan celebrating the league title with Atlético de Madrid.
Meanwhile,
the high contracts are maintained among the historical ones that do not return the same joys as before
: Piqué, Jordi Alba, Busquets, Sergi Roberto, Ter Stegen;
and expensive incorporations that did not perform like Pjanic, Coutinho, Griezmann or Dembelé.
As it transpired, the club must lower its wage bill by 200 million euros.
The FC Barcelona forward Antoine Griezmann never finished curdling in the team.
Photo.
EFE / Quique Garcia
Two different contracts that didn't fit
In the words of Joan Laporta, there were two alternatives that negotiated with Messi to reach an agreement for his continuity, but that could not be signed by the rules imposed by La Liga.
The first proposal was to extend the cycle for two seasons with a salary to be paid for five years, "but LaLiga's technical commission did not accept the contract as a formula that conforms to the financial fair play norm." The first was a five-year contract and this option was not validated either.
Lionel and Jorge Messi before going on vacation.
Photo: AFP
The dispute Barcelona-Real Madrid vs.
Thebes
This week LaLiga proudly announced that it achieved a millionaire injection by becoming the first major European competition to allow the entry into its capital of an investment fund, CVC Capital Partners, which will pay 2,700 million euros (3,200 million dollars).
Barça and Madrid, whose tension with Tebas reached its peak in April when they wanted to create a European Super League, oppose the agreement with CVC, ensuring that it mortgages television rights for half a century, something that the president of LaLiga denies.
The merengue club warned that "this agreement, using a deceptive structure, expropriates from the clubs 10.95% of their audiovisual rights for 50 years and against the law."
The president of LaLiga, Javier Tebas, and the president of FC Barcelona, Joan Laporta, in different events.
Photo: DPA
"Real Madrid cannot support an operation that gives investors the future of 42 First and Second Division clubs and the future of the clubs that will qualify during these 50 years," they pointed out.
In the same vein, Barcelona stated that "it considers the signing of a half-century contract inappropriate given the uncertainties that always surround the world of football."
The statement, which states that the conditions of the contract "condemn the future of FC Barcelona in terms of audiovisual rights", was issued shortly after the announcement that Messi would leave the club.
A pull that exceeds what happens with Messi
While Tebas shot Laporta via Twitter and the president of Barcelona answered him live from the press conference he was giving to explain the reasons for Messi's departure, the main dispute takes place outside the sports arena.
The culé club is willing to pay the cost of losing Messi but at the same time leaves the pump beating in the LaLiga offices.
The contest lost in recent years Cristiano Ronaldo, Neymar and now Sergio Ramos and Messi.
This obvious devaluation of the tournament would play in favor of Real Madrid and Barcelona in their biggest move: trying to get out of the wings of LaLiga and create a parallel organization like the European Super League.
Lionel Messi and Neymar, after the Copa América final between Argentina and Brazil at the Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro.
Photo: EFE / ANTONIO LACERDA
Is financial fair play the real problem?
Financial Fair Play is imposed by UEFA and is a salary cap that must be respected each season by clubs that play continental competitions such as the Champions League.
Despite the fact that Barcelona achieved a salary cut in the players of the squad of 122 million euros, the numbers do not close.
The debt, only with the banks, amounts to 30 million euros.
And the total would exceed one billion euros.
But from France, the possible destiny of Messi in PSG, they clarify that the Financial Fair Play is not currently working due to the pandemic since the restrictions on circulation and the isolation extended for so long made the natural income of the clubs impossible.
In this sense, the powerful Parisian club would not have financial impediments to sign Messi, even without having to part with Kylian Mbappé.
Kylian Mbappe could remain at PSG with Messi on the roster.
Photo: EFE
