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Barça will only be able to continue signing under the 1/4 route

Javier Gomez, general director of the League, has tried to explain the situation in which Fútbol Club Barcelona finds itself, which has focused the attention of the media organized by the League once the salary limits with the negative amount of 144.3523 are known. Losses that will continue to drag for the next season. And he has begun by making it clear that this situation has been reached because the “losses are greater than the ability to obtain resources to spend.”

One Javier Gomez who has also stated that in terms of the evolution of the costs of the Barça squad, it will finally have “242,295 million euros of losses more than what the League had initially foreseen”.

In this situation, in this excess of Barcelona’s salary limit, he will have to be subject to the 1/4 and 1/2 route when the cost is greater than 5%. Rules that are in force since the implementation of economic control. Situation that also from the League are not able to determine “how long it will take to get out of the situation it currently suffers.” It is the mechanism that the League has to “recover its income”

A rule of 1/4 that you can continue “accepting until you recover your net worth. Until then you can only sign via savings – contract. What is sought is that they spend less and generate benefits.” In the case of 1/2, it will only be in force until July 1, 2022 “from that moment only 1/4 of article 100 will be in force.”

Barcelona, as explained Javier Gomez, what they have to do is recover that negative limit and that is only done “having capital gains, either with CVC or with other assets. Also in this case you cannot make capital increases that in this case do not proceed as it is a club “. To insist on this issue, reiterate that “Any type of capital gain that is reflected in the income statement is worth it because it will be reflecting a benefit in its income statement.” And within this added value could be the Espai Barcelona, as one of the possible options.

Regarding CVC, Gómez He recalled that the current agreement signed by the clubs currently only “allows them only 15% of the global total income. And only that could be considered as capital gain.”

The manager of the employer’s association has avoided talking “about any speculation between an agreement between CVC and Fútbol Club Barcelona”. Regarding the current agreement, “any change should come from the clubs and from the fund itself. Today there is no other possibility than the existing one”

There are fourteen clubs that are currently using this 1/4 rule. Of these they hope that it will remain only in “five for next season and where Barcelona has the most complicated situation. It is a system that is working although there are some clubs like Barcelona that have problems”

On Halaand, Javier Gomez He has made it clear that right now it is not viable under the current scenario: “very clearly to make signings if he does not do anything new, he has to reduce his spending or bring in income.”