“With more than 500 million, we will be able to sign normally”

Less than 48 hours from the transcendental Extraordinary Assembly of FC Barcelonawhere the club will request the approval of the members to be able to negotiate the economic levers to be able to reverse the current complicated situation, Eduard Romeueconomic vice president of FC Barcelona, sent a message of optimism for this coming summer. “If the levers are approved, with more than 500 million, and we are able to carry out what we have planned, we will be able to sign normally,” he explained. Romeo in the Esport3 ‘Onze’ program.

To this day, the Barça must abide by the rule of 1-3 of LaLiga (you can spend a million for every 3 you bring in from a sale), but if you manage to activate those economic levers, worth more than 500 millionit will go to the 1-1 rule, with which it will be able to sign like the rest of the clubs in the national championship.

without going crazy

After the message of optimism, Romeo also put a point of sanity, aware that the problem of the debt of the Barça it won’t be solved just by activating the levers. “The fact that we go back to a normal situation when it comes to signing will not mean that we go on to spend money,” he detailed. And it is that beyond the income that could enter the club with the activation of the levers -they would reach 700 million-, the economic vice president made it clear again that they must also cut the wage bill by 160 million. “We are in a wage mass of 560 million and we have to reduce it to 400. With these figures we can compete in optimal conditions, although it seems very difficult to me that we can achieve it this summer”, he admitted Romeoaware that there are many players who must leave and that those who earn the most must lower their salary considerably.

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