FC Barcelona Finances

[JamDav1982]

Lewandowski is one of the biggest stars in the game. Raphinha could easily boom in the next year or two as well.

Barcelona could easily get sent home in CL groups if you don't improve the team. It's not that hard to do. Draw a Dortmund from pot 3, a City from pot 1 and can easily happen with an average team.

With an improved team, even a semifinal is reachable.

Dortmund are not a great side and barely have a player that would even get in Barca team either way.

Barca would not have a squad worrying about that when have so many young players improving at core of it.

Raphinha may.. so may Fati/Pedri/Gavi etc. Also Raphinha type players are not impossible under the 1/3 rules either dependent on who will sell or try to get to leave squad on huge contracts.

There is a reason why likes of Swiss Ramble etc point to how big a gamble it is and Barca taking risk for short term gain.

Why would revenue staying as 21/22 be relevant? Of course it will go up.

 

[serghei]

Ah, yes, we didn't need to activate these levers because we were close to Madrid even before it. Come on... at some point people here lost hope of even making top 4 last season.

The perspective without the recent signings would have been poor. Players like Ansu, Gavi, Pedri, Ferran also need better teammates to evolve. You'd basically be reduced for 3-4 years of mostly top 4 finishes, a Copa del Rey here and there, and mostly CL groups or Last 16 exits at best.

Did you just forget Benfica beat us 3-0 last season, and Frankfurt were beating us 3-0 on Camp Nou until the last minutes?

 

[JamDav1982]

Ah, yes, we didn't need to activate these levers because we were close to Madrid even before it. Come on... at some point people here lost hope of even making top 4 last season.

The perspective without the recent signings would be poor. Players like Ansu, Gavi, Pedri, Ferran also need better teammates to evolve.

Not far from Reals squad yes and not as far away as you make out and not worse than Atletico as you try to make out also.

Last season Barca barely had Pedri/Dembele fit at start and didnt have any of the new signings and were 6 points off top four.

Some folk predicted Barca would win the league last season..players deemed worthless under Xavi were argued at length about how useful they are.

When have Pedri/Dembele fit and the new signings as well as other young players with more experience it is a different picture.

Barca would have to have taken their time and rebuilt but old rules could still have challenged in La Liga and went to last 16 QF of CL if coached well.

Haha jesus you making out Barca dont have squad to beat Frankfurt takes the biscuit... Barca had vastly superior squad and Xavi fucked that one up tactically.. If anything that is argument for Barca having stronger squad than results suggested.

Couldnt beat Benfica once in the two games and have better squad than them as well and by a long way by time all fit and new signings.

 

[FinBarcelonafan]

Lewandowski is one of the biggest stars in the game. Raphinha could easily boom in the next year or two as well.

Barcelona could easily get sent home in CL groups if you don't improve the team. It's not that hard to do. Draw a Dortmund from pot 3, a City from pot 1 and can easily happen with an average team. Even Benfica was enough to trash Koeman Barca last year.

With an improved team, even a semifinal is reachable. You're talking major difference in money if that is the case.

Koemans Barca was truly garbage though. Terrible lineup.

Not surprised they failed group.

 

[Luftstalag14]

I don't think it's unlikely to get 400m more in profits in next 5-6 years as a result of improving the team. You get around 200m more in that time frame if you perform much better in CL, and I'm not talking about winning it.

We have to wait and see. Money in football are serious, but that goes both ways. You can also make a lot if you get your shit together, and Barca easily have the potential to set leading revenues again.

We will not make 400m or more in profit in the next 5-6 years, not at all. Even teams like Madrid and Bayern who were making good profit in the realm of 50m - 60m or so a season before COVID might not be able to achieve that, with COVID still not of the picture and an economic crisis coming our way; let alone us, who in those good years pre-COVID, when we had the highest revenue only made between 1m to 5m of profit each season, as far as I could remember. Not to mention our revenue will be down in the next 4 years or so before Nou Camp Nou is built, due to playing at limited capacity at Camp Nou and one full season at Montjuic, coupled with already reduced TV money and likely lower commercial revenue. We would be lucky to break even in the next 4-5 years in my opinion, because we can't afford to sell more TV rights and assets.

Interest rate doesn't matter with regard to the levers since we are selling rights and we don't need to repay the money (unlike with CVC); however higher interest rate will very much impact the Espai Barca project, as we still have to borrow another 1.5 billion to finance it. Higher interest rate will greatly impact our coffer and ability to invest on the squad, since we will spend more money on interest.

 

[impeh]

Barcelona today announced an additional investment from Sixth Street, a strategic investment firm with significant experience in global sports and media, which follows the firm’s previously announced acquisition of 10% of the Club’s LaLiga TV rights.

With this second transaction, FC Barcelona has sold an additional 15% of the Club’s LaLiga TV rights. In total, Sixth Street will receive 25% of the Club’s LaLiga TV rights for the next 25 years.

 

[Messigician]

Official: FC Barcelona have activated the second economic lever. The club sold an additional 15% of the Club?s La Liga TV rights. Sixth Street will receive 25% of the Club?s LaLiga TV rights for the next 25 years.

Trash

I rather 8% for 50 years like CVC

 

[serghei]

Lol.

 

[Temptation]

Any updates on registration of players?

Barca will be able to register all the new signings, right???

 

[Porque]

We're going to have to loan Raphinha to Espanyol in order to register Dembele. Other than that we good.

 

[Total-Football]

Barca budget is going to be as tight as an asshole midterm. I hope the club starts to work. This shit of buying ready-made proven old Spanish liga players is not sustainable. This is the work of a lazy incompetent sport department that is not worthy of an institution like this. Time to properly scout south America, Ligue 1 and Deutch league for prospects and buy them with reasonable fees. If the department is incompetent replace their ass. It is truly this department that fucked this club (needless to say with bartemou complicity). Even this year we are still doing it, I.e fighting for players already proven and falling in the trap of bidding wars.

 

[Messi983]

Should rename this thread to FC Palancas or something.

 

[serghei]

Any updates on registration of players?

Barca will be able to register all the new signings, right???

I refuse to believe we did all this work on the market with levers and shit, only to be blocked by some La Liga software.

 

[wisconsincule]

Just a reminder that EPL muppets truly believe FC Barcelona is going to cease to exist in a few years.

 

[Luftstalag14]

Well, things are not that rosy all of sudden, of course. Without the levers we would have had a loss of 150m for this season, as reported by 2Playbook and other outlets such as Culemania. Really unfathomable as to how the hell it is even possible and how we got here. Player wages are high, we know. Did the revenue decline by that much?

I hope Laporta and Co. are planning ahead and making sure we will return to positive numbers for this upcoming season, because we don't have more levers to sell and we simply can't rely on selling club assets and rights to balance our books each season.