This season could not be. The FC Barcelona tried to go back to conquer all the possible titles and had special illusion in raising by second consecutive season the title of UEFA Champions League, but the pothole of performance of the month of April caused that the Athletic of Madrid, playing his arms in Vicente Calderón, traced back the 2-1 of the Barça in the Camp Nou to access to semifinals of Champions League and, later, to the final of the competition after deleting to the Bayern Munich.
The elimination in quarter-finals of the tournament, further to grieve and disillusion slightly to some followers culés, had consequences from the economic point of view for the arks of the club. And it is that the Barça left of ingresar 22,9 million euros that would have harvested in the case to having conquered by second consecutive campaign the Champions League.
An utopian situation, of course, and that besides has something of false, since these 22,9 millions that would have obtained in gains possibly had spent them to continuation in premiums for the players of the staff of Luis Enrique. In any case, the true is that according to "Sportive Marketing" Qatar Airways would have paid 5 million extra euros to the Barça for winning a new Champions, whereas "Nike" had contributed 2,5 "kilos" more for the arks of the club.
By part of the UEFA, so only for having arrived to semifinals would have credited to the Catalan entity 4,9 million euros, whereas for having accessed to the final the Barça would have obtained 6,5 "kilos" more, and 4 million euros more for having it conquered. In total, an income of 22,9 million extra euros that finally did not arrive, although the FC Barcelona neither need them to day of today.
Definitely, already they will have more opportunities so that the FC Barcelona achieve to heave again with the maximum European title. And taking into account that it is the club that more times has won it in this 21st century, it is necessary to be optimistic in this regard.