Barça’s historic turnaround in terms of the salary limit. LaLiga made official this Friday the Cost Limit of the Sports Squad (LCPD) of the clubs after the summer market closed and the Barcelona team has staged a unique recovery. From having -144 million to being able to boast of having 656 million. After a market marked by the levers that allowed the club to come out afloat and strengthen the squad in exchange for mortgaging part of its future, Barcelona is the second club in LaLiga with the highest salary limit.
The first continues to be Real Madrid (683 million) and the third Atlético (341 million). Barça has managed to reach these €656,429,000 in positive after activating four economic levers this summer (two for the sale of up to 25% of its TV rights and another two for the sale of 49% of Barça Studios) and get rid of players like Samuel Umtiti, Braithwaite, Neto, Dest, Riqui Puig, Lenglet, Aubameyang or Coutinho, among others.
The sports squad cost limit includes the expenditure on players, head coach, assistant coach and physical trainer, as well as spending on youth academy, affiliates and other sections. The concepts included are fixed and variable salaries, social security, collective premiums, acquisition expenses (including commissions for agents) and depreciation. Clubs are not required to spend the limit in full.
Barça’s salary limit was greatly exceeded after the winter market but it is no longer and as LaLiga announced before Koundé’s registration, the Blaugrana club has left the 1/3 or ¼ rule and become part of the 1/1 (you can invest one euro for each euro that comes in).
As for Espanyol’s salary limit, it has gone from 79 million to 72. Girona’s is 42 (being in the Second Division it was 9).
