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Transfers: on the verge of bankruptcy but big spender in the transfer window, Barça's paradox explained

2022-01-04T05:18:50.210Z


While crumbling under an abysmal debt of more than 1.3 billion euros, the Spanish club has just signed two heavyweight recruits.


Ferran Torres recruited for 55 million euros (with a potential bonus of 10 million additional euros in favor of Manchester City) and Alvaro Morata very close to a loan from Juventus Turin: FC Barcelona opened the transfer window winter with fanfare.

Yes, this same Barça, on the edge of the financial precipice due to an abyssal debt estimated at 1.35 billion euros and crushed by an uncontrollable wage bill, which was forced to cede Leo Messi to Paris SG, is the main player a transfer window for the moment very calm.

The situation, totally paradoxical, necessarily calls out.

A boost from Manchester City for Barça

For Vincent Chaudel, sports economist, the financial position of FC Barcelona has not changed since last summer.

This is still "

worrying

" according to him, but the Catalan club has shown ingenuity to finalize these two operations even if they will not be completely painless in the accounts.

Ferran Torres does not come from anywhere but from Manchester…

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Source: lefigaro

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