The big questions about the 'new' Barça after the announcement of Xavi's continuity

The FC Barcelona has confirmed that Xavi Hernández has given turn backwards and will remain in the club to fulfil his agreement, that extends until 30 June 2025. The confidence in the trainer has ratified and have set up a new leaf of route so that the team of a jump of quality in the next season. They will be necessary the new incorporations, but to achieve it will have to put on sale to important players and take key decisions in a summer that, as little, will be moved in the City Condal.

The continuity of Xavi has been the first of a long list of 'problems' for resolving that has the Barça and that they are, probably, so important like the name of who was seated in the bench. And it is that, in spite of that the club has announced that it will be able to fichar with normality in summer (Joan Laporta announced that "andstamos working to try achieve the rule 1/1 to be able to incorporate players. The other day LaLiga congratulated us by the efforts that are doing to recess the mass salarial. In this end of season are tightening so that they go out operations to achieve the 1/1. They will decide what can reinforce "), still does not know how.

The maximum Barcelona mandator aimed that, although it has not been approved the plan of the club by part of LaLiga, "there are three basic axes: the economic recovery of the club, the Espai Barça; that it already goes taking form and for December could go back home; and afterwards the first team of football. Finally, there is a series of operations under way with Barça Vision or with the sportive equipment. We go by good way". Like this then , the club will have to resolve three big uncertainties: The sale of 29,5% of Barça Vision, the agreement with Nike and the real income with the return to the new Camp Nou.

The big wrap of the Barça with 'Barça Vision'

The first point is the most urgent, put the club owes a big quantity by the non-payment of Free Football Finance during the past summer, of 40 million euros (10% of the company). It is worth it to remember that, in 2022, the Catalan entity had sold 49% of the audiovisual arm to Orpheus Half and Socios.com at a rate of 200 'kilos', but a year afterwards produced a resale of 29,5% to Free and NIPA. The last credited the money that corresponded him, but in marry him of the German bottom have not existed 'news'. The club, as it informed to finals of 2023, carried them to courts.

The non-payment has brought a lot of consequences for the Catalans. LaLiga Blocked the mount of the Fair Play financial and had big problems to inscribe to the players before it closed the market of signings of the past summer and Joan Laporta with his managerial board saw forced to present a guarantee to solve it. Besides, the audiovisual subsidiary had foreseen to go out in stock exchange of United States in March of this year, but was impossible by the absence of the payment of Free. It is in 'stand by'.

It does some weeks, trascended that the Barça had a new offer for the 'resale' of Barça Vision, of 49%. Joan Laporta confirmed that "have a proposal of a company that wants to buy 49%, but like some do not want to sell is as it is or is very interested in all what was the subject Tokens is speaking with Partners for this investment, do it jointly with Partners". Still it is in we will see and there are not a lot of novelties in this regard.

The new agreement with Nike

The subject of the audiovisual arm is not the only that is on the table and that it will be one of the big commonplaces of the summer. The club is slope to define what will happen with Nike and if, as it is informing , there will be a new agreement with the American company that allow to elevate the income. The Catalans have 'sued' that have not fulfilled with the conditions and that the agreement that is in force does not correspond to the 'reality' of the team that, for example, was the one who more sold T-shirts in the last year.

In the last weeks, in the dispatches of the Ciutat Esportiva Joan Gamper have been working for limar asperezas with Nike after the justice gave the reason to the mark after a battle in the courts. The culés are forced to be followed with them until the 2028, when it wins the agreement. If they break it of unilateral way, the club would finish paying 100 million euros by each one of the seasons. It is a greater evil that, obviously, are not in capacity to assume.

It foresees , according to the last informations, that announce a new agreement in which the multinational will pay more than 100 'kilos' -boasts that it can surpass the 120M- with the possibility that it extend the agreement by ten seasons more, with uuna prime of renewal that could rondar the one hundred millions before it close this exercise. It can be the remedy so that the club leave to be drowned economically.

The new income by the Camp Nou

Finally, it is the subject of the new Camp Nou. The forecast is that the works advance to the same rhythm as up to now and that the team can contest his first parties in the stadium to finals of this year, with reason of the celebration of the anniversary number 125 of the foundation of the club, and that the work will be completed in April of 2025, at most. This yes, to the turn to the Estadi there will be a significant reduction in what to sale of entrances refers . It will be of 68.000 fans, but in the first presentations will not surpass the 50.000 available seats.

"Everything goes according to the planned and the truth is that when you are here already see that this goes to forward and soon will be able to it put to disposal of the partners and partners of the Barça. It is very moving because it will do that the Barça have the best stadium of the world, an only stadium", said Joan Laporta recently, but will remain to question how the club will achieve to increase the income that will not perceive with the reduction of fans in the terracings. Already in this season is being a nightmare and there will be muchao margin of improvement in the short term.