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Without control: on the scandalous conduct of Barcelona

Against the background of fascinating stories that take place in world football, Barcelona carries debts of over a billion euros and in its conduct resembles an Israeli team from the eighties.

It remains only to welcome the economic management method of football here, which reduces the chances of such crashes

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Sunday, September 26, 2021, 12:30 p.m.

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Let's start with a not particularly surprising sentence: Barcelona's home draw against Granada, as part of the fifth round of the Spanish league held this week, knocked out many gamblers in Israel and around the world.

For almost 30 years this sentence has occasionally appeared in reports, it can happen, occasionally the favorite team fails to beat the weaker team (on paper).

But contrary to everything we were used to, including through the relentless publicity of the "Barcelona" brand by those who benefited from it in the world and in Israel, this time the creators turned around: the draw was surprising because Granada was supposed to win the game. The state “here in the Holy Land, has drawn a draw from a dramatic goal in added time of the game, and many betting forms have been thrown in the bin.

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The truth? It is excellent. World football is full of refreshing and fascinating stories, even if some of their heroes are veterans in the scene: Cristiano Ronaldo reappears in the Premier League with Manchester United, Napoli open the season as Diego Maradona in the squad, Chelsea look amazing, Juventus crashing, Arsas Dortmund's Norwegian freak refuses to stop bombing, and Leo Messi gets lost in Paris Saint-Germain.

Sea of ​​stories. sea. And in Barcelona? Admittedly, this group just came out of all the holes. How much could you hear about how she defeated another poor football team out of this world - never out of this world - without getting bored? Even in FIFA you want to lose from time to time, to have some interest. How much is possible?

The collapse of Barcelona this season is gratifying not only because something interesting is finally happening, but also because it turns out that behind all the glamor there was one big scam: the club has a debt of over a billion euros.

This is, for those who missed it, a club that sells merchandise in one hour like all Israeli football teams together from the Stelmach era to the grandchildren of Eran Zehavi.

Admittedly - Barcelona has already come out of all the holes.

Pika (Photo: Reuters)

Barcelona is a football club that sells everything everywhere and can charge very big money for any of its products - players, through appearances for training matches and broadcasting rights to a sweat shield with the club logo.

And all this in general, and without referring to these specific benefits that have improved significantly in the last 15 years, when they had the second or third best player in the world.

This is a club that is supposed to have unprecedented economic power, and here it is at a minus of a billion and something euros.

All that is needed is for them to arrange a hearing with the Honorable Justice Eitan Orenstein and appoint Adv. Shachar Ben-Ami to dissolve.

Debts of this magnitude indicate an unsuccessful combination: just as many good guys did in Israeli football (and ended up with a disgrace from Meir Rabinovich), apparently Barcelona also signed players with money they do not have - good players, those who can score fifths against Tenerife and fourths against Eber. Living on the overdraft is very nice, but not really sporty. Because basically everything here is air - and someone will have to bear these debts and pay the money that flowed to the players. A particularly daring gamble: it will not be the one I hired to commit to paying those sums.

So now one of the biggest teams in the world is stuck in the position of a typical Israeli team from the eighties. In the summer it turned out that the team owes 52 million euros to Messi, which is really reminiscent of the time Betar Jerusalem players came to practice and there was no water in the showers, because the municipality closed the gap because of a past debt to Sami Malka (maybe it was a debt to Avi Golder, should not be caught small) .

Economic conduct reminiscent of an Israeli group from the 1980s.

Laporta (Photo: Reuters)

And so, in the end, and with how shocking our football is, one thing is to be commended: the method of managing money here is, despite the exhausting bureaucracy, the least bad.

Budgetary control, which requires cash guarantees for each contract submitted by each team for each club employee - is a very good method of reducing mistakes.

A foul like Amir Kabiri's Hapoel Tel Aviv is the exception that does not attest to the rule.

Today it is difficult to imagine an Israeli football team that will become insolvent (although we are always open to new surprises).

Now all that remains is for the manager of La Liga to come and say that it is time to copy the Israeli model, and to appoint the legendary Shuki Cohen as the projector for the establishment of the Spanish budget control.

Sounds absurd on first reading, but if Barcelona pulled a draw from Granada, you can be sure that anything is possible.

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