The situation is getting complicated with the possible Robert Lewandowski deal from Bayern Munich to Barcelona. But it’s also getting easier at the same time, at least for Barcelona fans. For months now, president Joan Laporta is struggling to ’swim’ in a an ocean of debts and just like last year, he has problems signing players who want to come, due to financial regulations. In fact, two players who already sign contracts with the club (Franck Kessie and Andreas Christensen) cannot be registered (yet) and the Lewandowski deal is on ’ice’. And La Liga president is not helping Barcelona at all, as he is running around and telling everybody who asks that the Catalonians cannot sign new players, Lewa included. Laporta already called on Javier Tebas to stop talking about Barcelona and concentrate on other Spanish clubs, but now, situation is getting more serious, as Lewandowski’s agent Pini Zahavi is seeking ‘explanations’ from president Joan Laporta. He read Tebas’ comments regarding financial problems and since La Liga has strict rules on it, Zahavi wanted an emergency meeting with Laporta to clarify things.A bunch of stars knocking on Barca’s locked doorIt would be a great disaster if Lewandowski ends ups staying in Bayern, since he made a real effort so far to end up at Camp Nou. He publicly said he doesn’t want to play in Munich, risked anger from the fans and his teammates and he can’t go back to that locker room now. On the other side, how can he sign for Barcelona if there is no fee agreed, and even if there is, they cannot sign new players? So why did we say than that the situation is also getting easier? Well, the man who knows the financial details has finally given as the formula on which we can calculate how (and when) Barca can sign Lewandowski.Frenkie goes to Hollywood? First Red Devils’ offer on the tableJavier Tebas talked (again) and spoke of Barcelona (again), not listening to Laporta’s appeals to stop talking only about the Catalonians. But this time, he gave a simple example how this whole financial problem with Barcelona looks like. Barça, in economic terms, is a machine for making money,” he said in his speech at the ‘MARCA Sports Weekend’ celebration. Tebas also wanted to banish comparisons between the Barça team and other teams that have been relegated for financial reasons. “The Elche case was for breaching commitments with the Tax Agency. It is not comparable,” he said.”Barca comes from more than 500 million losses, and in our economic control when someone comes with those numbers they have to recover them. The causes were part due to losses from COVID, part operating losses and because provisions have been advanced for amortization of players who they didn’t have to do them. Right now, and due to the financial state, they can only “sign by the 1/3 rule. If they sell players for 100 million, they can sign players for 33 million. If you sell assets as I am seeing, you will reduce those losses and if you compensate them, they will go to the normal 1-1. They have designed a strategy and it is the one they are applying. Let’s hope for the good of football and the League that they achieve their goals. We do not like this situation but the responsibility of football is increasing. There are no guarantees in football“ said Tebas at the Marca’s sporting event.21.45: (1.48) Netherlands (4.50) Poland (7.75)So there you have it. Laporta needs to negotiate the deal with the Bavarians first, and if the sum is around 33 million euros, he will need to sell players for around 100 million. And that is why they are considering selling Frenkie De Jong, as he can command a big fee. Barca is holding out for a 100 million, which is too much, but they are already owing Ajax a lot of money from De Jong’s transfer. Any future sale would mean that the Dutch champion would get his part, as Catalonians don’t have other ways to pay back what they owe. According to the reports in Spain, Barca is owing almost 40 million to Ajax, so they would only get 60 million for themselves if any club decides to pay 100 million for De Jong. And there is no club who will do it. Pini Zahavi needs to be worried about this.
