The 'levers' of Barça, questioned by UEFA and the ECA

In spite of his financial crisis, the FC Barcelona has been the big protagonist of the market of summer with until six reinforcements and an investment of more than 150 million euros (without including variable). This has been possible thanks to the activation of the 'crowbars' financial approved by the directive and the partners, a strategy that has not evaded the attention of the UEFA and the Association of European Clubs (ECA, by his acronyms in English).

In this sense, the maximum body of the European football analyse if the strategy implemented by the Barça goes or no against of the precepts that the 'Fair Play' financial will impose from the season 2023-24: solvency, stability and control of cost. For the group culé, the sale of active was the only exit to the shortage of money and the cuantiosas debts accumulated by the management headed by Josep Bartomeu.

It was as well as the Barça attained to do box managing the sale of 25% of his television rights of LaLiga for the next 25 years and the sale of 49% of Barça Studios, negotiations that left to the club a total of 867.5 million necessary euros to free mass salarial, reinforce the staff and adjust to the 'Fair Play' financial of LaLiga. Now, the UEFA evaluate if the financial strategy culé is legitimate or if, by the contrary, constitutes a threat for the financial stability of the clubs, since it is very likely that other teams look for to emulate the done by Joan Laporta this summer to resolve his problems of box.

For now, the Barça forms part of the clubs investigated by the European body by financial irregularities in the economic exercise of the 2021-22. Laporta Attained fichar to four players in winter (Dani Alves, Ferran Torres, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Adama Traoré, yielded by six months), but the accounts could not squaring according to the normative UEFA. In October will announce economic and sportive sanctions against 10 clubs by problems in the season 2020-21. The next year, the Barça could run the same luck.

The PSG and the English clubs, immune to the 'Fair Play'

Although Paris Saint-Germain is one of the clubs investigated by UEFA by his management of signings in the 2021-22, is clear that to the French group measures him with another vara. The power of the money catarí does that the UEFA was more 'benevolent' with a PSG that has spare money to spend. The origin is the of less. The same sucede with the Manchester City and other English clubs. In fact, any club of the Premier League is in problems of 'Fair Play', in spite of having worn, in group, more than 1.800 'kilos' in signings in the middle of the crisis post pandémica. It will approve the UEFA the model of 'crowbars' patented by Laporta? In the weeks to come we will know it.