It has been incredible the discount of the mass salarial that has achieved the FC Barcelona in hardly six months. An operation that began from the exit of Lionel Messi until the unexpected renewal of Samuel Umtiti. Also it has had the complicity of some 'heavy weights' of the changing room culé, with the captains at the front, and has attained reconducir cases like the ones of Coutinho and Umtiti. The result is that the seven more important index cards of the first staff, or have evaporated , or have seen drastically reduced.
At the head of this operation has been the director of football of the Barcelona club, Mateu Alemany, that has not had more remedy that manage this delicate subject while it tried to reinforce a staff whose quality desangraba with each new exit, as the one of Griezmann and of course, the one of the seven winning times of the Balloon of Gold, Messi.
It has had to multiply in this half year the new cúpula leader of the Barça. Fulfil with the requirements of LaLiga to adapt to the fair play financial and recess the debt seemed that it left to the entity without capacity to manoeuvre in the market and reinforce the staff. Therefore, it signings that arrived in summer (Memphis, Agüero and Eric García) brought the letter of freedom under the arm or in quality of yielded (Luuk of Jong). Only it has been now, in winter, when it has been able to invest in the contracting of Ferran Torres (some 55 million euros for the Manchester City).
Reductions in each renewal
Close the renewals of the young talents like Pedri and Ansu Fati was one of the first movements, and devoted a lot of hours of negotiation to achieve the discount of the index cards of the rest of the staff. Firstly, with the traumatic exit of Leo to the PSG; to continuation, with the conveyance with option to buy of Antoine Griezmann (Athletic) that frees 21 annual millions in concept of wage.
The captains Sergio Busquets, Gerard Hammered and Jordi Alba –Sergi Roberto still has to close his agreement- also accepted to collaborate with the club for the reduction salarial. But a substantial part, the one who has allowed to open the door of the market of signings of winter, arrives with the exits of Philippe Coutinho and Samuel Umtiti.
The key of the market
The cession of Coutinho (Aston Villa), assuming a reduction of the index card of 15% results an economic relief (the English club takes on 65%) and sportive, when freeing an index card of the first team. In addition to the renewal of the French (discount of 10% and index card delivered in 4,5 years), only can consider like an authentic work of engineering negotiator, that delivers the economic effort on a long-term basis and, at the same time, opens the road to sportive solution to short or half term, also with a cession or a traspaso.