The salary limit and Barça

The salary limit was born in the 13-14 season to stop a chaotic drift.

Our football owed 750 million to the Treasury, the debt with the bank was about 1,000, the clubs owed 500 to each other, about 500 players had complaints of non-payment for a total amount of 79 million and threatened to strike.

Of the 42 clubs, 32 were in bankruptcy.

The way to end that was the salary cap.

It would have been easy to impose a cap of 70% of the budget for staff costs, but that would leave out the solution for the debts carried over.

So a formula was created that collected income, expenses and debt.

The text is not a secret, anyone can consult it on the LaLiga website, but I must warn you that there are 180 pages.

It started with 16 articles, now it has 111, a whole forest of cases to collect problems that appeared on the fly.

Sometimes to make it more flexible, like that article 92 that served Laporta to register Koundé through an endorsement, but others to toughen it up.

Example: a pirate who has toured several clubs paid in black and registered with a lower amount and it was decided not to process any chip significantly lower than the one the player had in his previous club.

After the pandemic, the hand was opened to everyone in a sense: the box office losses of that year can be distributed in the following five as long as they do not exceed the pre-pandemic salary amount.

Let's say that it has worked: football is in peace with the Treasury, the players are paid.

There was only one mistake, Reus, who slipped nonsense and was expelled.

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Now, many tell me, but what about Barça?

If not with the leniency of the controller, how could the 'Bartomeu disaster' have occurred?

And how, owing such an outrage and having a new stadium planned, has Laporta been able to make so many signings?

The first has a bad explanation.

Laporta himself said that they turned a blind eye to Bartomeu and not to him.

Regarding the transfers, it must be remembered that lever by lever Laporta has raised 700 million and that the cost of the transfers attributable to this course is 140, because when a player is signed, the cost is distributed between the seasons of the duration of the contract .

However, it cannot be hidden that such a text gives rise to almost theological discussions.

In this case it has happened.

That Barça strategy of creating its own companies to advance money on account of future income, do we write them down as debt or as an investment?

When the plan was created, it was explained in As by Tebas himself and Javier Gómez, the wise specialist who develops it.

I already got the idea that Madrid and Barça would be looked at differently, given how they weighed their ability to generate income.

It has been seen well in the case of Barça.

Laporta got 600 million from Goldman Sachs a year ago;

now, lever by lever, another 700 for her summer purchases, with the Lewandowski pearl.

Soon LaLiga will bring the clubs together to reveal the salary limit of each other and why.

It is done every year, it was done in the past, and the great guarantee of the system is that if someone were favored, those around them in aspirations would protest, and that does not happen.

Perhaps because everything is well done.

Perhaps because things can be disguised in this forest of articles: economics is not mere arithmetic.

Or maybe because everyone is aware that Barça is essential to the system.

It is known that Florentino has helped Laporta in these difficulties and it is not surprising that Roures, who is in the management of LaLiga's international rights, supported him in the final lever.

However, there is still work to be done.

Laporta announced that he would have to lower his wage bill from 640 million to 400, along the lines of Bayern and Madrid.

He has not done it, he is still overdoing it, so next summer, if he has not corrected it, he will again be subject to the one for four rule, that is, he can only invest one euro for every four he sells.

Next summer will follow the film.

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