The preseason, an option to save the furniture

The decision was made firmly: Barcelona was not going to make any tour this summer despite the fact that these tours in Asia or America represent a good income for the club's economy. Now, the situation demands measures that reduce the economic impact that will result from the coronavirus crisis and the option of the tour is back on the table. An option that today would only remotely affect Asia, where Barça has its great sponsors (Rakuten in Japan), where the epidemic seems to be being controlled, quite the opposite than in the United States.

At the beginning of the season, Barcelona decided not to carry out any promotional tour for various reasons. From the outset, it would have been done without the majority of the main players in the squad who were planning to play the Copa América, the Eurocopa and the Olympic games this summer. Also, last summer's experience was disastrous at a sporting level. The official start to the season was disastrous for the Blaugrana and voices from some players were raised in the locker room, criticizing so much travel and so little training. The board noted that.

Barça played in Japan and then in the United States in an accumulation of kilometers that prevented the team from training under conditions during a key period. It was the first time that the Catalan entity carried out a preparation period on two continents. Until then, only one continent was visited and tours of Asia and the United States alternated with great economic benefits.

Without going any further, in 2017 the match between Madrid and Barcelona played in the summer of 2017 in Miami, the first Clásico played outside of Spanish territory, meant for the Barcelona team an income of 5.7 million euros within the framework of a tour that helped the Catalan club raise 12 million as revealed by Football Leaks. That, by the way, was the last game Neymar played with the Barcelona shirt.

Participation in the International Champions Cup tournament, which leads the main European teams to play in Asia and the United States, provides Barcelona with an average of six million euros per participation, without playing against Real Madrid, a fact that reached consider this year.

In this sense, the Washington Post published that those responsible for the ICC had contacted Barcelona and Real Madrid to repeat the game in Miami three years later, but in Las Vegas as part of the opening events of Alegiant Stadium, the new sports coliseum in Nevada City, which has cost $ 1.75 billion and is the new home of the American Football Raiders.

Given the new economic situation that has paralyzed the sport, Barça is waiting to see how the calendars and once it has been confirmed that there will be no Euro Cup, no America Cup or Games, a space is opened for a preseason that will save, at least in part, the furniture from the economic blow of this health crisis. Although, the option of the United States seems absolutely ruled out.