CAN BARÇA TERMINATE ITS CONTRACT?
The variable that would allow Barça to 'break' with Nike for free
There is a lot of information that suggests that FC Barcelona could be living its last months with Nike as its official sponsor. The doubt lies in how much the Blaugrana would have to pay if they definitively dispensed with the services of the renowned sports brand.
The last months have been starred by the taut relation between the FC Barcelona and the mark Nike. They are varied the sources that coincide in that from the City Condal understand that the mount of the agreement of sponsorship is underneath of what corresponds and that, in front of the refusal of the American multinational to negotiate the terms -between other things-, the Barcelona would be in the research of an alternative in the market, with Cougars in the 'pole position'.
The true is that in the newspaper 'SPORT' have given more details of how could be the process of 'separation' between the Barça and Nike. It is worth it to remember that it exists a contractual bond that extends until 30 June 2028 (signed in 2018, with Josep María Bartomeu). In this agreement, that would be valued between 100 and 115 million euros by season, a percentage would be related with the sponsorship merely -with fixed income- and another for being provider of the T-shirts, with variables.
The alternatives of the Barça with Nike
With the taut calm that exists between both parts, have gone out to the discovered the variables that includes the agreement signed recently less than six years that would allow to the Catalan entity do without the services of the American company before they fulfil the ten years of agreement. The first, that would be free, would be communicating to Nike his aim to terminate the agreement with two years of anticipation. That is to say, if the Barça sends the communication to the multinational in 2024, two years afterwards would remain freed, in 2026. This alternative, as they explain from 'SPORT', would not suppose an economic outlay.
Instead, in case that the Barcelona want to finish with the relation with Nike of immediate way, himself that there would be an important economic consequence. The before quoted source establishes that, in this situation, "Nike would have right in this case in demanding what calls the 'lucrus cesante', a quantity for determining equivalent to the cuts that had left to win in the case to fulfil these two years of agreement". They explain that, according to the first calculations, of the mount fixed would be 0 euros and that, regarding the part of the provider, yes would be 20 or 25 'kilos'.
To the courts with Nike?
East mount will depend on when the Barça would have the intention to break the agreement: between more time was missing for the 2028, greater will be the mount. They would have to go through a judicial process that would carry time and in which the blaugrana would carry all the ones to lose, although, is worth it to remember, at present there are three demands of the Catalans that expect resolution by part of the justice. The first for breaking with the bonus, another by the limit of sales abroad and another by disloyal competition.
