Surprise, or surprise, in the latest salary cap update made by La Liga after the January transfer window.

Real Madrid maintains the 739.16 million it had available at the end of last August, Atlético de Madrid and Sevilla do not lose much (from 171 to 161 the rojiblancos, from 200 to 199 the Andalusians), and FC Barcelona, ​​weighed down by the losses of the season, it plummets from the 97.94 summer to the -144.35 that it now has, being the club in the worst situation in the championship in this aspect.

But what does this mean?

How is it possible to have a limit of -144 million?

Will Barça be able to sign in the summer?

Javier Gómez, General Corporate Director of the League, responded to all of this on Monday.

"That limit does not mean anything regarding the hiring of this season. It means that it will be more limited in the following ones, unless there are capital gains and benefits," specifies the financial manager of the domestic tournament.

An obvious argument: the Catalan club will have to generate income (sale of players) to solve its serious monetary problem.

But you can sign.

To understand all this you have to go first to the definitions: Second, the definitions.

For the League, the 'Salary Limit' is the "cost limit of the sports squad", and the organization chaired by Javier Tebas explains it as the maximum amount that each club can consume during a season after the summer market.

That is to say, it is a ceiling and not always an obligation.

Within this salary limit is included spending on players, head coach, assistant coach and physical trainer of the first team, in addition to spending on affiliates and academy.

And in these concepts are added fixed and variable salaries, social security, collective bonuses, transfer expenses (including commissions for agents) and amortizations.

A ceiling that, obviously, Barça is skipping.

The losses of the Catalan team in the 20-21 season (487 million), the elimination in the group stage of the Champions League, which has not allowed them to generate the expected income, the necessary signings (Ferran, Aubameyang and Adama) to achieve the Sporting goals this season and the few outings (Coutinho) in winter have sent Joan Laporta's club into this traumatic situation that they will have to correct in the summer.

How?

Entering the Champions League, winning the Europa League and selling some of the important players in the squad.

All this, in addition, having to assume the renewals of Araujo and Gavi.

"That negative from Barça means that fewer losses were estimated than those that have been obtained. It has accumulated too many.

"The excess in that limit will influence the limit for next year, of course," José Guerra, responsible for the economic control of the League, explained a couple of months ago to EL MUNDO.

“If, once the impact of Covid has been eliminated, you continue to fail to meet the balance point, there may be a sanction.”

Something that Gómez has influenced: "Unless there are capital gains or benefits, it will be limited during the following seasons."

The possible agreement with the CVC fund will be one of Barça's weapons when it comes to correcting these data.

"The best way to improve the limit is by having capital gains, either with CVC, selling assets (Espai Barça) or releasing players", assured Gómez, who has ruled out that there will be "favorable treatment in the agreement with CVC " and he has repeated something that this newspaper already explained at the beginning of the current season: right now, Barça can only sign players using the 1x4 rule.

That is to say, he will have to reduce 4 million euros of his wage bill if he wants to invest one in signing someone.

So until the situation is fixed.

An example that the Barcelona club has followed in this winter market.

"With the supply of savings from Agüero's cases,

Umtiti and Coutinho have been able to make those contracts.

You can hire players as long as you save money."

For its part, Madrid maintains the same figure as in the summer, 739 million limit, an amount that it is not using in full and that is the result of several seasons selling footballers and barely spending on transfers.

Everything has a single objective: save and make room for salary for Kylian Mbappé and save millions to try to fight in the bid for Erling Haaland.

"These years, Madrid have increased their own funds without ever exhausting the limit. They have been accumulating profit and everything that you manage not to spend, accumulates and one day you can use it. With that capacity they can sign Mbappé and Haaland", José Guerra admitted to this newspaper at the beginning of the course.

Nothing has changed.

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