The Polish superstar can sleep peacefully. Lewandowski is unsatisfied. Yes, if he got and accepted the offer from Saudi Arabia, no one in the Catalan club would cry. On the contrary, the amount for a Pole would be an important factor that brings relief. For now, however, there is no such topic, because the best team shooter clearly declares that I want to stay in Spain until the end of the contract. On the other hand, it seems that Barcelona is no longer looking for a new shooter in place of a Pole. He declared it clearly last week Deco. Barca's sports director said in an interview with the Portuguese daily “A BOLA”: “We have Lewandowski, so we are not looking for anyone in his place.”
They were supposed to plant Lewandowski on the bench, but they will not be
It is worth recalling here How much space did the entire Spanish press be devoted to the possible transfer of the attackerwho would plant a Pole on a bench. You can mention a whole litany of names that appeared as potential transfer goals. In fact, they were “news” without any real basis.
Barcelona, ​​even if she would like to replace Lewandowski, there is no money for such a large transfer. And even if she found such money, coach Hansi Flick has a different list of priorities than planting on Lewandowski's bench.
The goalkeeper's issue went to the first fire in Catalonia. The club decided to bring Joan Garcia. The Espanyol goalkeeper stands out not only with the skills desired by Flicka, but still tempts with a promotional price. 25 million euros, which is saved in the contract as the so -called The redemption clause is far below its market value.
On Wednesday, the Spanish press wrote that Garcia agreed to transfer to Barcelona. Fans in Catalonia are happy, but it can be premature joy. The problem of Barcelona is still that it does not meet the criteria of financial discipline, which he imposes on the clubs on La Liga. If the national champion does not deal with it, Garcia will not be able to register.
UEFA will show Barcelona even more severe than before
And on Wednesday, it turned out that Barcelona's troubles can still deepen. According to the British daily The Times UEFA intends to punish the Spanish master for a recidivist in non -compliance with the financial principles of Fair Play.
It is about the famous financial levers of the club president Joan Laporta. The head of Barcelona in 2022-23 “sold out” the club's future revenues from television rights for matches in the Spanish league. In this way he obtained $ 250 million to balance the club's budget. However, what the Spanish league authorities adopted was considered a violation of the rules in UEFA.
In short, the point is that the money obtained from the lever is, according to European auditors, is not the club's income in its budget. So you can't post it as Barcelona wanted to do. As a result, the club did not meet the standards specified in the financial Fair Play, because the expenses exceeded the limits set by UEFA. But two years ago Barcelona was fined in the amount of 500 thousand. euro. The references to the Arbitration Tribunal for sport did nothing.
Now UEFA is raising the same issue. In the next season, Barcelona again saved the money from the lever as income. Again, the club did not meet the standards of a specific financial discipline, which UEFA orders. This time, however, the punishment will be much more severe, because it is a recidivation. Not only a fine is at stake, but also negative points in the league of the Champions League or a reduction in the number of players who can be reported to play in UEFA's aegis. It seems that this time Barcelona is in a lost position, because it is the same as two years ago and even reference to the Arbitration Court does not make sense.
Barcelona still has no right to register new players
UEFA Trouble is also a clear signal for La Liga, which will only study Barcelona's financial discipline before the upcoming season. For today, it looks like in the expenditure limit, which the Spanish league imposes on indebted clubs, Barcelona has no place for registration of new players.
The amount of EUR 100 million from the sale of VIP places at the rebuilt Camp Nou stadium, which was to balance the budget, was rejected by an independent audit. The reason was prosaic. There were no such places at the stadium at the time. They were not physically built. So now the race is underway, but it is already known that Camp Nou will not be put into service for the start of the new season. Anyway, it is not known whether the revenue of EUR 100 million for the sale of VIP places will be treated as a one -time power supply. There are leaks that an independent audit recommends to book this money proportionally in the following years of the contract. This would mean that this year Lewandowski's club could only add EUR 4 million as income from this.
La Liga therefore has strong arguments in hand to prevent new players to register in Barcelona. Once the club has grown to Dudek in the case of Dani Olmo, who was approved to play against the rules of the Spanish league, thanks to the intervention of the Higher Sport Council. District officials said that in this case the labor law must be applied, but their decision is valid only until June 30, 2025.
Barcelona has no one to sell
To balance the budget, Barcelona must therefore get additional revenues from the devotion of players, but it also goes bad. First of all, because the team has slim staff resources anyway, if the players of the first squad and cannot afford greater weakness. And secondly, the players whose club would like to get rid of either do not want to leave or are not very attractive on the market.
In view of the acquisition of Garcia, the club would gladly get rid of, for example, Marc-Andre Ter Stegen. However, the German goalkeeper, although he knows what is going on, to the left and right, he says that he is not going to move from Catalonia. He has a contract three more years (until June 2028) and is well aware that no one will provide him with a better salary than the one he has in Barcelona.
There are also savings that Barcelona was to be reached after renting Ans Fatie to Monaco. The unfulfilled hope of the Catalan club has a giant salary of EUR 15 million and the club from Ligue 1 is not going to pay the player with such money. Monaco demands that part of the salary take Barcelona. This in turn calls into question the sense of the entire operation. After all, the Spanish champion wants to rent this player so that his salary does not charge the club's finances.
So it seems that Barcelona fans will experience great emotions, even when the players are on vacation. Again, we will witness the struggle to register new players and gymnastics of the board to close the budget.