Barça settles accounts and frees up 36 million in the salary mass

FC Barcelona does not stop in economic matters. The club, during the current summer market, has managed to lighten its salary mass in the search for financial stability, which will allow it to operate without restrictions in the transfer windows.

In that sense, Barça has managed to free up about 35.6 million euros so far in the market. This figure represents a significant relief in terms of financial fair play, especially considering that the club is not yet under the 1/1 rule, which allows reinvesting every euro released.

Likewise, the club's strategy has been based on two fundamental pillars. Mainly, the salary amortization, that is, for each departure, the Catalan team manages to release approximately 60% of the player's gross salary, generating a substantial cut in the salary mass.

In addition, income from transfers comes into play, since the Blaugrana entity obtains 20% of the sale value of the players, according to what was reviewed by 'Mundo Deportivo'.

Koundé, Trincao and Íñigo Martínez, key in Barça's latest maneuvers

The contract extension until 2030 of Jules Koundé meant a great move by Barça in the last hours. Initially, his link with the Blaugrana team ended in the summer of 2027.

The original agreement contemplated a total cost of 50 million euros distributed over five years, until 2027. With the new extension, that same figure is now spread over six seasons.

This accounting adjustment allows the club to free up about 6 million euros in the short term. In terms of financial fair play, the operation translates into an amortization of 60%, which generates an additional margin of approximately 4 million euros.

It was also learned that the club sold the other 50% of Francisco Trincao's rights, receiving about 11 'kilos'. In terms of fair play, the club receives 20%, since it is a sale, which generates about €2.2 million more.

In this line of thought, Íñigo Martínez's departure to Saudi football is also fundamental. The Basque defender, whose salary was estimated at around 14 million, has allowed the club to free up 8.4 million thanks to the application of the 60% amortization contemplated by the regulations.

This departure, together with the recent contractual maneuvers of Koundé and the operation with Trincão, has generated an economic relief of close to 15 million euros for the Blaugrana entity so far this summer.

To this we must add the 21 'kilos' that the club had already generated with the moves made with other players, such as the loan of Ansu Fati to Monaco, the transfer of Pablo Torre to RCD Mallorca or the departure with the letter of freedom of Clement Lenglet, apart from the sale of Pau Víctor to Sporting Braga for €12M plus 3 in variables.

The agreement with the DRC, an impulse to reach 45.6 million euros

In this argumentative order, in recent weeks a sponsorship agreement was closed with the government of the Republic of the Congo for four years, which will contribute 40 'kilos' distributed in 10 million per season. 

With this new injection, if approved by LaLiga, Barça raises to almost 46 million euros the total generated in terms of financial fair play, approaching the priority objective of operating under the 1/1 rule.