Barcelona survived another turbulent season and finally managed to get a place in the Champions League, which guarantees a somewhat calmer life in the never-difficult financial moment for the club. However, at Camp Nou they are aware that they must strengthen their forces in order to remain competitive and attack the La Liga title in the foreseeable future (and Europe) and president Joan Laporta above all, knows how difficult it is to manage high expectations in current circumstances.Bayern have contacted Ousmane Dembélé’s representatives. The player’s agents are negotiating with Barcelona over a new contract, but an agreement is still far away. Bayern bosses have noted that Dembélé has matured and became more stable physically [@kerry_hau, @SPORT1] pic.twitter.com/sAmRt44hQp— Bayern & Germany (@iMiaSanMia) May 17, 2022 However, solutions to the unprecedented financial crisis are finally visible. In an extensive interview for Radio Catalonia, Laporta revealed that activating one or two financial ’injections’ would practically heal Barcelona’s economic wounds. The first variant is the payment under the agreement of La Liga with the investment fund CVC, according to which the clubs will receive a financial incentive, but consortium will take the income from television broadcasts in the next 50 years. The second is that the club sells 49 percent of the rights to use the coat of arms and the license for props (BLM) at a price of 200,000,000 euros. This would be the last resort, so agreement with CVC is more likely.„If before June 30 we can activate one of the levers or two, we will have cleaned up a large part of the club’s economy. It will never happen again to enter a dimension of madness. It will not happen again and we are instilling that at the club“ said Laporta to Radio Catalonia and used Kylian Mbappe to explain the current transfer market and it’s financial implications.From Mbappé’s camp they deny Joan Laporta’s statements about the player’s request for a salary of €50m net per season. Mbappé’s camp says they have never opened any negotiation with Barça.— @FabrizioRomano pic.twitter.com/TuAU39vHib— Barça Universal (@BarcaUniversal) May 17, 2022 „Mbappe is asking for 40-50 million net. He wants 50 net. Mbappe is at a level of the super tops. But even that can’t guarantee you the Champions League win, as we saw this season. That must also be taken into account. We will not do it with 30 or 40 net either. It would be a comparative offense for players who are called to be a reference in the world of football who are at Barca and are just starting out. We are not going to do it, nor do we want to” said Barcelona president.Lewa tells Bayern he won’t sign an extension, wants a Barca moveLaporta also talked about the last season, in which he felt his team should have won La Liga, but also about the new coach Xavi and his visions of the team.„Last year we should have won LaLiga. This year I have seen a recovery since the incorporation of Xavi in the game that we are showing. We eliminated Napoli, the exhibition against Real Madrid… If important players are not injured. .. As it is not yet a consolidated squad, there are certain imbalances, this has happened to us. Xavi knows that he has very good players, but we have to have a more competitive team. But the priority, I repeat, is the economy. The situation that we inherited cannot be fixed in a year. We still have the ability to fix it with a season and that It would be extraordinary. We have to have a team to aspire to everything. The Champions League? Man, of course. This season I thought that we could aspire to win LaLiga, I said that Madrid would puncture in the last stretch but it has been very regular. We have not pressed what was necessary because we were short on goals. The Champions League was disappointing” explained Laporta.Aubamayeng, 24 others battle for LaLiga’s ultimate African MVP AwardStrengthening the team is one of his priorities and the biggest name out there is Robert Lewandowski, who is heavily involved with a move to Catalonia, but again, Laporta preaches only about economic situation.„Let’s let the football management and the technical secretary work. I will not answer you in detail. They work to make the team more and more competitive and it is not easy because we come from a difficult economic situation. I hope to be able to say that in a year that we have “We have largely cleaned up the club’s economy. First we have to activate one of the levers we have to clean up and then we will be able to deal with this type of operation. If we manage to clean up the club’s economy, we can deal with all the operations we are contemplating” said Laporta.(2.45) FRANKFURT (3.35) RANGERS (3.10) Apart from bringing new players, some of them might leave the club, but unlike Umtiti or players like that, Ousmane Dembele and Frank De Jong are very important player. One could leave as a free agent, the other in order to raise money for more transfers.„There are Barca players who are coveted in the market and we will do what is best for Barca. The transfer operations do not contemplate the sale of a player for economic reasons. If the economic levers come out it would be due to a sporting condition. I don’t know if there will be sales. Dembele wants to stay but he is very tempted by other options that offer conditions that they may consider better than ours. The offer has been submitted for a long time, they have taken a margin to respond to us when the season ends. We would have liked to have an answer sooner , but we can’t force it. There is a good personal relationship with everyone. Auba has come, with whom they are very good friends. He has some representatives who control the situation, but I hope he stays“ said Laporta.
