Barcelona seeks to lighten the salary mass and has in mind to leave several players

The sports management of FC Barcelona advocates the maxim of ‘letting out before entering’ with The objective of lightening the salary mass of the first team and incorporating players, such as Manchester City striker Ferran Torres, with a view to a winter market that is expected to be moved in the offices of the Barça entity.

In recent weeks, the president Joan Laporta , the football director, Mateu Alemany, and the coach Xavi Hernández have insisted that the Catalan club will seek to strengthen itself in the winter market as long as the delicate economic situation of the entity allows it.

“We all agree that we must strengthen the first team. The problem is that we have inherited contracts that do not give us a salary margin. Even so, we are looking for the formula to improve the first team in this winter market, “Laporta explained shortly after Barça was dropped from the knockout stages of LaLiga de Campeones.

The great headache of Barcelona is to comply with the financial control regulations imposed by LaLiga, which in September already cut the cost limit of sports staff for this year, the maximum amount that a professional football club can spend on salaries of players and coaches, in more than one 70% compared to the winter market of the season 481 – 21.

The cost limit of The sports team was then $ 100 million dollars, a 28% of the $ 390, 1 million that could be used in wages in January 2021, a cut caused by the fragile economic situation of the Barça club, which accumulated a debt of $ 1. 350 million and losses of $ 481 In the season 2020-21.

In November, after the incorporation of Xavi Hernández and the renovations of Ansu Fati and Pedro González ‘Pedri’, Mateu Alemany admitted that there was “no ‘fair play'” left over to make signings.

Last Tuesday, after the draw against Sevilla, Alemany himself pointed out that ” There have to be departures and actions to comply ”with LaLiga’s financial regulations.

Club sources confirmed to EFE that the offices are working to release players and renew Ousmane downwards. Dembélé to reduce, thus, the wage bill and register players such as Ferran Torres , whose signing from Manchester City is taken for granted.

The names that more sound to leave the c lub in the next winter market are Philippe Coutinho, the most expensive signing in the history of Barcelona, ​​and Samuel Umtiti, whose salaries are among the highest in the squad.

In the eight matches under Xavi’s orders, the Brazilian forward has played a total of 115 minutes, while the French center-back has only played the 90 minutes of the match against Osasuna.

Another key movement in This winter market to free up salaries is the renewal of Ousmane Dembélé who, if he accepts a low offer, would allow Barcelona to save part of his current tab.

The third way to register players would be to increase revenue through new sponsorship agreements.

Necessary movements so that Xavi Hernández can improve a squad that in this first section of the course has missed the offensive punch of yesteryear.

Without the Argentine Leo Messi, since last summer at Paris Saint-Germain, the injuries of forwards such as Ansu Fati, Martin Braithwaite and Memphis Depay, and the withdrawal of Sergio Agüero due to ailments Heart attacks, Barça is thirsty for goals and offensive talent.

Everything indicates that Torres, of 21 years, It will be the star reinforcement in the winter window, but before entering someone must leave.