Javier Tebas, president of LaLiga, presented together with its Director General, Pepe Guerra, they presented the economic report for the 2019-20 season, which was fully affected by the pandemic and had to be interrupted for three months. Despite COVID, LaLiga presents a report with numbers in which it shows chest.
Losses of the big clubs: “Of the 700 million losses, half belongs to Barcelona. There are other big clubs that have made greater efforts to avoid it. Real Madrid have made a commendable effort to keep their losses far from those of Barcelona. cup of losses “
Renewal of Leo Messi: “With the salary mass that Barcelona has today, it has exceeded it. It will have to reduce and make a significant effort so that they can incorporate many players and renew Messi.”
Impact: “You will have to reduce your expenses or increase income. It will affect the wage bill for the next few seasons.”
Economic control: “It has the power that clubs have to incur expenses when there is a financial difficulty. There are other competitions that do not have it. Our losses will be infinitely less than those of other competitions in the report of next season.”
Barcelona: “The severity depends on the resources that you are capable of generating and entering. Barcelona has a high turnover and has to restructure its debt. If it does, its situation will not be serious or complicated. Barcelona has always pushed its salary mass. And when football has caught pneumonia, it has not been able to absorb that loss of income. If they restructure the debt and reduce the salary mass, it will have a good competitiveness “.
Transfer market: “The turnover is going to be much lower than that of the previous season. We did not calculate that the pandemic would last the entire season, we thought we were going to open the stadiums. Looking at the numbers, I am sure that if the market will contracts in values, some Spanish clubs can go to the market. The one who has to sell is also in a difficult situation and is not going to want to reduce the values of their sales. The vast majority have possibilities of going to the market. “
Barcelona limits: “We are not going to make them more flexible. The rules are not going to be changed. Barcelona is going to reduce their wage bill, that is what they are working on. We are not going to change any rules because of Messi.”
Real Madrid and Mbappé: “That is Madrid's decision. Madrid has done very well the management of the pandemic. Of the great clubs in Europe it is the one that has done the best. Madrid is the one that has best managed the issue of the pandemic.”
Pepe Guerra, general director of LaLiga
Big club losses: “They are the ones who are suffering a great impact since they were the ones who had the most income from the stadiums.”
Audiovisual rights: “Internationally, we are one of the leagues that is growing the most. All the international impact is brought to Spain and that is good for the country's economy.”
Impact 20-21: “It will take several years to absorb the impact that the losses will have in 20-21. In the medium term we are going to come out very strengthened.”
Profits: “We do not expect to keep profits for 20-21. We will have losses for sure. The stadiums have been closed throughout the season.”