Barça drags the League to historical losses of 892 million

La Liga

has an economic problem called

.

It's hard but obvious.

Even more so when the numbers for the

of the organization chaired by

are known .

The

pandemic and the financial situation of the Catalan team completely weigh down the health of the Spanish competition, robust and solid apart from the club chaired by

.

The domestic tournament has today published its

the 2020-21 academic year and has presented

, of which

,

, belong solely and exclusively to Barça.

This is the first season since 2012 in which La Liga admits losses after some very positive years:

profit in 19-20,

in 18-19 or

in 17-28.

A worrying figure that will force the Barça board to maintain

, that is, enter four million to be able to spend one.

The classification for the

It will oxygenate the accounts for this season a bit and the agreement with the

remains as an emergency solution.

At the Camp Nou they do not see it clear to sign said investment and prefer to exhaust other ways, including the sale of the

project or the transfer of one of the most important players in the squad, such as

In La Liga, however, they slip the need for that signature and hope that Laporta and his board will join the rest of the team.

In that case,

would be the only club in the Santander League to stay out

of more than 24,000 million over

that CVC plans.

"We cannot ignore the

that a benchmark club is going through at an economic-financial level. The notable relevance and economic scale of that entity

of LaLiga as a whole. However, we have no doubt that in the coming years this institution will return to the path of balance and solvency", declared

.

The Covid and the transfer market, keys

The solutions to the

(and the League) are still not clear, but the causes are.

The

, the loss of

money and the rest of the difficulties added by the

have meant, according to the League, "between 75 and 90%" of the negative effects of the season's numbers.

A reality that, together with the drop in

has reduced the

of the teams to

euros, by 5,029 in 19-20 and 4,874 in 18-19.

"Without the Covid, those incomes would have increased to 5,166," they estimate from LaLiga.

"Under these environmental conditions,

, "admits Tebas. "But the truth is that we are still standing and we are even stronger."

The clubs of our country have registered a

, the lowest record in the last six seasons.

A fact directly related to the lower risk that entities take in their movements, something that LaLiga calls the '

'.

By not selling players, the decision is made not to sign and

.

For this reason, despite the losses in the competition, the

has only increased by

, from 1,710 in 19-20 to 1,946 in 20-21.

In fact, in the 2020-21 academic year, the net investment in players in Spanish football was only

.

Soccer players have been bought for 547 million and have been sold for 542. To compare with previous years, in 19-20 the net investment was 405 (1,533 transfers and 1,128 sales).

Television rights, oxygen balloon

The clubs' attitude towards the market has to do directly with the financial control carried out by the League and puts some hope in the future.

For the 21-22 campaign, the Spanish organization already estimates a

(+5% compared to this year) and losses that will largely depend on the solutions Barça seeks to its situation.

From the Tebas entity, where they still

in this summer market, they speak of "

" for the 21-22 season and "

" for 23-24, being "

" for LaLiga the direct boost that the money from

has meant , the creation of

(a company that will channel the digital ecosystem of the competition), the

in America and the sale of

, something that continues to increase.

In 2013-14 LaLiga obtained

, while between 2019 and 2021 the annual average was 1,853 and from next season it is estimated that it will exceed

.

In general, it is a suffering similar to what the rest of the

are experiencing .

last year, for the

or the

of which 250 million are only from PSG.

It is not the situation of Barça, but the Parisian team completely conditions the French championship.

According to UEFA, the accumulated deterioration in turnover in the two seasons affected by Covid in European professional football amounts to

.

An economic drama from which Spanish football is slowly coming out.

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