• The Catalan club are experiencing a cataclysmic start to the season.

  • The management of the previous governance of Josep Maria Bartomeu was "harmful", according to the club's general manager, Ferran Reverter.

  • “There was a financial planning error (…).

    They bought players without having if they could pay them, ”he noted.

If, at home, things are not going strong, think of FC Barcelona.

Entangled in economic problems and in the street (or almost) on the sporting level, the Catalan club saw a cataclysmic start to the season.

And it's not just because of Leo Messi's departure from PSG.

Forced to ask executive players to lower their salaries, forced to sell some players (Ilaix Moriba, Emerson Royal) to replenish the coffers, forced to "do with what there is", as Gerard Pique said, Barça seeks the slightest kopeck to breathe a little. Because the management of the previous governance of Josep Maria Bartomeu was "harmful", according to the general manager of the club, Ferran Reverter.

At a press conference on Wednesday, he presented the club's financial report, which began last March.

“During the period 2016 to 2020, revenues have increased by 30% while costs have exploded by more than 55%.

This is because of four factors: the salary increase (+ 61%), management costs (56%), financial costs increased by 6 and the Covid-19 had an impact of 108 million euros. .

So much for a global assessment.

"There was no money to recruit Griezmann"

Now prepare the bulletproof vest.

“Barça, in four years, with four players, had a payroll of 1,400 million euros, points Reverter.

More than 300 million euros per season for just four players.

Enter here, Dembélé, Coutinho and company.

We continue ?

“There was a financial planning error.

The Griezmann case: the night they recruited him, they saw that there was no money and they had to look for a fund.

The Coutinho operation, which costs 120 million euros, ended up costing 16.6 million euros more because of financial charges.

They were buying players without having if they could pay them.

"

Come on, to end on a good note, Ferran Reverter, who also found invoices in the accounts to pay journalists (yes, yes), said the club would regain its rank.

“We managed a loan of 595 million euros [to meet the debt], with a credit of 1.98% over ten years.

This management has a plan and the conditions are very favorable for the club to operate as normal.

" We want to see.

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