Are Barcelona still in financial trouble?

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Barcelona finished the 2020-21 season in deep financial distress. They activated a number of “financial levers”, but still had to wave goodbye to Lionel Messi.
A couple of seasons have since passed, but have things really changed financially?
Explained by Abhishek Raj, illustrated by Marco Bevilacqua.
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[@ItsJesssee]

Bartomeu is basically the worst thing that ever happened to Barcelona how do you manage to ruin one of the best clubs in history to this level

[@GarnachoEmpire712]

Glazers we’re taking us on the same route as Batomeu but luckily they are selling

[@TTriggaa]

People weren't moaning when they were winning everything.

[@giorgosgiannakoudis2308]

@@GarnachoEmpire712 glazers took man united to an even worse route sportingly

[@TylerSolvestri]

Because in Spain many people want to destroy Barca, Barca is a club it’s in constant auto destructions cuz they are corroded from inside by socios who make random elections and get their shady candidates into the scene. Bartomeu and Rosell did all these things on purpose, when they won on 2012, Guardiola knew and left exactly that season, Xiki also left before they got elected

[@andrephx90]

@@giorgosgiannakoudis2308 Exactly. Can´t quite say Glazers did a bad job in getting money when a club winning a fraction of what used to win gets 700M in revenue per season. What they do (or not...) with that money is a whole other story.

[@hartdiligence4895]

I want to take a moment to appreciate Tifo's financial literacy and exposure in this video, you guys are more than just football news 👏👏

[@bradleybeaumont9202]

They have been one of the best for a while man. You are absolutely correct.

[@zzimikk]

This wasn't all true but in general, yes they are very good channel

[@mynumberoneguy2125]

Wow. I did not know. That they were in that bad of a financial mess. I hope they don't imploded. It would be a sad day for football

[@gordon1545]

It's sad that you can't understand elite football any more without a basic understanding of accounting and economics, but that's where we are. And at least we have some good channels like this to explain it.

[@mynumberoneguy2125]

@Gordon Shame you can't understand sarcasm. Barca made their bed now let them lay in it.

[@ashleyburns6752]

I think most clubs in Europe are technically in financial trouble, it's basically a bubble where everybody is spending as if TV rights fees and commercial deals will keep going up.

[@david91lvb]

Yea there was a video explaining why football isn't a profitable business

[@philippmeier3363]

Bayern is the only top Club that's neither in debt nor owned by some super-rich entity.

[@calsta619]

Liverpool? But yes, most top clubs are debting their way to success

[@hiphopotamus69]

There’s a reason they wanted the super league so badly

[@philippmeier3363]

@@calsta619 They are still owned by a rich entity. But you're right, I think they have stable finances as well

[@priyanksrikanth4424]

Update: Gavi and Araujo were registered now

[@k.c.8744]

I think it is funny how Barca were getting critisised for selling 25% of there tv rights for 25 years for around 500m while la liga were forcing every club to sell 50% for 50years or so in the cvc deal.

[@Culefrank]

And it turns out the La Liga CVC deal was illegal to begin with

[@uncreative5766]

​@Culé frank Tebas is a clown, and I don't even watch La Liga

[@caven7056]

​@@uncreative5766 billions do

[@PhilliesNostalgia]

This is part of the reason why Messi didn’t want to come back. He didn’t want to be responsible for mass fire sale of players just so that he could retire there

[@ninjabathat2792]

but like barca still have to sell players with or without bringing in messi

[@fotrj]

​@@ninjabathat2792Yeah but now Barca can focus on rebuilding instead. Messi looked out for the club even after leaving the club

[@philthornton1382]

The issue is too many clubs are spending over 55% of their turnover on player salaries, it’s unsustainable and ruinous

[@simonlane6368]

Bartomeu, PSG and the premier league have thoroughly broken the whole situation.

[@Jinxonajoyride]

And every time the transfer window opens again it just gets worse. We’re already hearing rumors about clubs selling and buying players for record fees and it’s like ……why do we want to keep breaking this record, eventually there’s going to be a player whose contract totals around $1 billion and that’s just absolutely fking ridiculous. I wanna say that’s dramatic but I believe I’ll see it in my life time. There are players right now with contracts worth more than entire clubs

[@bigvirgvandijk971]

@@Jinxonajoyridebecause times change inflation happens, it shouldn’t be that shocking

[@KGI_KlikoNL]

@@simonlane6368 Doesn't matter if they can pay. Barca can't.

[@fotrj]

​@@JinxonajoyrideIt is not as dramatic as you might think. That's literally what Al Hilal offered Messi.

[@jayme3181]

A point worth making is that Barcelona being controlled by an elected president is a double-edged sword. Yes, it gives a say to fans in the running of the club but also it can lead to political short-termism from a president looking to win the next election at the expense of the state of the club in 15 years time.

[@matoplays3484]

Spot on.

[@prateshramjohn]

Honestly Barca went downhill from the Neymar sale. Bartomeu wanted to flex the club's muscles because of damaged egos from that Neymar "sale". This resulted in years of stupid overspending and poor recruitment. While the levers are a gamble, unless La liga becomes much more competitive and not the typical "2 horse race", UCL qualification is all but assured and eventually the club will recover financially.

[@RobitGalaxy]

Not really. 2018/19 was one of the best Barca's seasons. In 2019/20 the club was in a good level. I would say that the downhill started with the covid and the bad internal organization.

[@VintageFootballVault]

Definitely agree this roots all the way back to trying to fill in Neymar’s gap

[@ellis1469]

The amount of assets and revenue sources Barca has given up for future use to improve the club now is very scary

[@ranndino]

@@RobitGalaxyIt's still true that the way Barça spent Neymar money was idiotic.

[@retiredrebel]

Fartemeo is a traitor from Madrid sent to break the Catalan spirit. The Spanish/Catalan heart is round & made of checkered hexagons.

[@JeseMdeO]

La Liga dropped the ball in a major way by not getting better tv deals while at the heights of the Messi vs Ronaldo era.

[@harooney1847]

and they wanna cry about the epl now that its too late

[@rashidkhalid3970]

Last 20 years Barcelona alongside Madrid could get any players they wanted nowadays they can't compete with likes of united Chelsea arsenal psg Bayern etc. Also add to that the premier league has dramatically overtaken la liga

[@l.c.136]

no it hasn't, how many champions league , Europa cups have the epl won again in the last two decades? go ahead I'll wait..........@@rashidkhalid3970

[@caven7056]

​@@rashidkhalid3970EPL isn't the problem. Your teams are literally owned by countries

[@srijanpandey5238]

The video didn't mention the refinancing of the debt two years ago and loans taken from GS to achieve so. Also there's far too much leverage on the stadium to pay off the debts which if it doesn't materialize will mean the club going down a slippery slope which I'd say is on already. There's only so much asset to sell at the end of the day. Also Gavi and Araujo's contract are/will be registered soon along with other player renewals. As for signings there has to be sales.

[@nacerddinemahalli7074]

Supposedly football experts . They don't even research or tell the whole truth .

[@football9958]

​@Nacerddine Mahalli videos take time probably all of these happened during the time to make the video

[@wackiechan300]

@@football9958 these were confirmed at least a month ago lmao. They literally didn't bother to complete their research and are just happy with this misinformation.

[@1b0o0]

News from today in Spain are that the board have to provide financial guarantees. Copy-pasting from Marca: The president and his managers will guarantee three million euros and present a three million promissory note to avoid a punishment from LaLiga for not having complied with the cuts in the sections to which they had committed. The salary mass of all sections was around 104 million euros. The entity's commitment was to reduce it by about 10 million, but so far only four have been cut. Although Barça will not have much room for maneuver since they are in the 40 percent rule: they will only be able to invest four million out of every 10 it enters.

[@shyguy1845]

@@wackiechan300 yeah anyone keeping up with the club can see that, it's a pretty uneven video, The fact that The athletic the company behind tifo also writes poorly researched articles on barca i almost feel like it's deliberate.

[@vishal7arora]

For people saying gavi has been registered...he is not officially yet (can confirm from Barcelona website). He likely would be but the catalan media bubble just assumes stuff before it happens ...a lot. The thing is approval of a viability plan doesnt promise viability. It means laliga has approved the options Barca is going to take to attain financial goals. This invludes sales. Barca HAS to sell to raise money as per the plan.

[@pr000w]

He is now, not updated yet on their site but he is registered on la liga's website

[@jeraldr2]

As a Barca fan - I don't want to admit it but this year's La Liga title might be the only one for a while... Honestly I think they should enter a full rebuild. Those "financial levers" were good in the short term but it might have damaged the club for a forseeable future.

[@danielfonte7]

I agree with you. Look I'm a Madrid fan so I'm not surprised if I get any slander here but I think the most sensible way Barca should approach this situation is by investing heavily in their youth academy and sell their best players. Investing on the youth academy can really benefit as you can develop players and sell them for huge amounts like Madrid has done with Morata, Kovacic, Varane, Theo Hernandez, etc. In my opinion, they have to go try and sell De Jong, Fati, Raphinha, Pedri or Araujo as you can get a minimum of 60 million+ for each of themI know it's hard but the future of the club should always remain top priority. In other words, pulling those financial levers will do more harm than good in the long run.

[@tomw6947]

​@@danielfonte7The issue is Braca won't get £60million each for those players you mentioned, everyone knows Barca are desperate for money and that will go against them in the long run. Good news is this is a great opportunity for clubs like Athletico Madrid and other teams to close the gap and challenge for the top two more often, chances are Madrid will dominate the league but who knows what outcome this could bring.

[@god-dp4tr]

@@danielfonte7 I quite disagree with your point. If you sell the best players of the team the team would perform drastically poor which would highly impact the incoming of fans to watch the game thus effecting income through sales of the ticket. Further there would be no jersey sales, less endorsement, less sponsors thus again impacting the finances. So if there is negative income how will you invest the money to develop their youth. The only way is to lower their wage bill through negotiating with players and meanwhile the team has to win trophies as much possible. Or they have to sell a part of Barcelona to oil investors.

[@observer00700]

As an Asian football fan, I think it would be nice if Serie A and La Liga also relaxed the non-eu system to some extent. I believe that recruiting high-quality players from Asia will be more helpful in increasing Asian marketing and profitability

[@lwandomadikizela2213]

Bartomeu is a perfect example of how NOT to run a sporting institute. Years of poor planning, recruitment and spending can lead once a profitable club to financial ruin.

[@regikambo3506]

De jong has never been close to leaving, it's just the media that has pushed this narrative. The problem with registration was with Gavi and not Araujo and that was solved. Also La Liga approved the viability plan and now Barca can sign and register players

[@vishal7arora]

Approval of a viability plan is not the approval of viability. The plan includes the sale of at least one major player. They can attain it but the rhetoric that the viability of finances for the season has been attained is a jump the gun propaganda coming from clear mouth pieces of the club. Could be a problem if players like Ansu, Ferran aren't sold or refuse to leave. Don't believe everything the Catalan media bubble says.

[@thisisntme3684]

Very much so, I just posted a comment about the English media's attention aroung this, mainly Man Utd driven articles and click baiting.

[@thvf2381]

true, in his recent interview he said he never wanted to leave.

[@agustowelch1216]

People's concern with barca is amazing spurs are in about the same amount if debt as barca for those who dont know and still spend as they please,and their revenue is nowhere near Barca's or even chelsea who have now european competition but yet it is always barca this and barca that, put la liga FFP in the prem and see how many clubs suffer

[@srbtlevse16]

The truth is that the club is in less debt and makes more revenue than most top prem clubs, the issue is that the rules are much stricter in la liga and barça also has to take a lot more care of their finances because there isn't some owner who can come and bail the club out.

[@SKa-tt9nm]

That is true but you are looking at it the wrong way. Barca’s legal structure prevents the club from using itself as collateral for a loan the way English teams can (eg MU has borrowed a billion with ease because the club is worth at least 5 billion). Without that ability, Barca is left to sell off pieces of its soul in perpetuity in order to pay the bills tomorrow. It’s a massive weakness.

[@Dutchology]

Barça knew/know this rules, Those rules are good btw. See what happens in the Premier League, its gonna ruin football at some point.

[@kon497]

​@@SKa-tt9nmUnited were bought with a leveraged buyout - the club didn't take on debt it was FORCED on the club. That method is now illegal. United have long been a profitable club, but unfortunately that led to American parasites bleeding it dry.

[@LordWay]

Any player they can't currently ratify a new contract for should be sold for as much as they can get. They may have to solely avoid paying fees for players to bring the debt down. The fans and board must accept some potential pain in terms of performance until they steady the ship.

[@RaedVS]

Barcelona have always been very poorly managed financially, under all managements really, past sporting successes have only been *Covering* these issues, never really fixed anything. They have only become so prominent in recent years because of the failures to replicate these aforementioned successes, but they were never truly tackled, even in the "Golden Years" of the club, under Laporta's first term, and they only keep digging themselves in deeper holes over the long term for immediate cash flow, and new management will come and blame the previous one, and this negative feedback cycle will continue, it's just not sustainable. The club will eventually be forced to either go Public, or have direct owners, stocks, and investments, in all cases this financial module of Socio robbery needs to be changed, or the club will go bankrupt.

[@a-pandey54321]

The thing is they are seen as one of the big symbols of Catalonia,even if they hyphothecticaly get bankrupt, the Catalonian government will still give them a bail out..

[@leobestbote4244]

The player sale lever I don't see it being so effective with some of the players mentioned eg Dejong so so reluctant to leave and those that can leave like Gavi and Araujo considered untouchable

[@k.c.8744]

well barcelona has loanes who will leave the club eventually and some of theme are even on a massive wage like umtiti. Umtiti, lenglet, dest, collado, maybe nico and abde and even if umtit, lenglet, dest and collado leave for a total sum of just 15m+ which would be way less than they are worth totally if would help barca drasticlly since lenglet and umtiti are on huge wagues and the 200m wagues they have to lower like in the video said are without griezmann, busi, pique, memphis, alba and pique who are all very high earners and apparently gavi and araujo will be able to be registered which means these 200m are already covered.

[@maciejbala477]

yeah most of them don't want to leave. I guess you could try to force them out but they can always just say "no"

[@varunbukka9225]

And Frenkie shouldn't even be asked to leave in the first place. He has been really important for Barca last season in important games & Barca should rely on him for the future. He is world class

[@kasinocontroller]

​@@k.c.8744 Umtiti and Leglet are worth nothing and will only leave on a free, either through running down their contract or getting a lump sum payment by Barca to end the contracr early. Even tho Umtiti was very good on loan - no team wants to afford their wages + pay a transfer fee. And the good european clubs aren't interested in any of those 4 anyways.

[@parthaemzg20]

Frenkie's wages are outrageous.

[@efrainlagunas]

3:02 Wish you guys did this after we saw it to get a full picture but I guess it is low-hanging fruit that is always ripe to pick.

[@krisgordon3116]

They look to have gotten past the worst of the financial mess. It will take decades to fully dig out from under this mess but it is doable without handcuffing the on pitch performance and player recruitment. Don't be expecting 100 million + moves for a while though.

[@davidbarrondo987]

Good research that went into this video, &’ yea thank you

[@VarunKumar-ro4ll]

Uhm, was this video scheduled to be put weeks ago and forgotten about? Because looks like a lot of details aren't mentioned in the video. The alba and busquets departures plus gaining 40 mn from the griezmann sale plus freed up wages means the club is way closer to the ffp regulations than the 200 mn mentioned here. Also Gavi has the green light to be registered.

[@Legnid]

Plus de Jong, ter stegen n many more have taken pay cuts who were on massive wages.

[@DarthSmirnoff]

It literally feels like it's all a shell game, and at some point, Barcelona is going to run out of shells and it's going to come crashing down.

[@InvinsableNoob]

"Is" and "are" could be tricky to use sometimes. Like in video titles

[@lewispalmer8257]

Can You pls do Video covering West-Bromwich Albion's Finacial troubles, It doesn't seem to get any coverage at all and could lead to another Derby or worse yet, Bury Situation Thank you Love the videos!!!

[@its_master_Roshi_Fkrs]

They'll pull through❤💙😊 "we fall to pick ourselves up again"

[@ryannurse2890]

So their earnings before tax are -7m, but their profits after tax are 98m, but their operating profit is -146m? Is it just me or does that make absolutely no sense? How can they be earning 105m more AFTER tax than before it?

[@kidpagronprimsank05]

Wage bill, loan repayment, maintenance, and transfer payment. And that only football section.

[@Philosific]

There could be several reasons: Non-operating income. The nature of the business has to be kept in mind when youre looking at the financials.

[@christoduplessis8177]

Because the one time sale of certain assets (like the studio) isn't an operating income and therefor only goes into the income statement post tax. Not an accountant but that is what I understood there.

[@mullenio4200]

It's becoming normal for clubs to keep up with their finances by selling future assets and stretching payments and contracts out for increasingly long periods. Which is an incredibly dangerous game.

[@BenMcManus]

For clubs like Barcelona who think they're entitled to win at all costs, yes.

[@rinovaldymukti1033]

It's do or die for them, yes

[@fotrj]

Barca had 2 options 1.) Give up on future profit margins and stay competitive Or 2.) Fade into irrelevance and hope to somehow be back after a few years. They chose the wiser option.

[@BenMcManus]

@@fotrj all Barcelona fans say this. You want your cake and you want to eat it too

[@fotrj]

@@BenMcManus No we just want to stay competitive. Just look at Milan and Inter. Had been completely irrelevant for 1.5 decades until the last couple of years. Meanwhile even in financial ruins, we have won La Liga.

[@edvingrauelfe4615]

when tifo posts something about barcelona, you know its not about their football.

[@dcbb8643]

These are my favourite type of TIFO videos.

[@JFOOTBALL.9]

5:20 they have registered Gavi now

[@Koksn_Todorov]

The wage bill is 530M Euros, and needs to be downed to 450-470M Euros. That's around 80M Euros needed. Laporta hosted a Qatari businessman, owner of the Baladi Express Group, and went to Qatar, there'll be 2 new sponsors, along with Philips which already sponsors the sleeve with "Ambilight TV" with 10-13M Euros for 3-5 years. If there's further salary cuts (maybe De Jong) and sales for 50-80M Euros before June 30th i think, Barca will not be in the 40% rule, but at 1:1 rule... Lenglet to Tottenham for 5-10M Euros, plus 16M Euros saved from his wages, Umtiti (20M wages), Eric Garcia, Dest (10M wages), Ferran, Ansu, Abde sales can easily cover that sum. They can buy Carrasco for 16-20M Euros, which is pretty good. The basketball club is going to cut spending by around 25% too, starting with termination of the contract ot famous player and highest earner Nikola Mirotic. Barca TV is going to be stopped, as it generates annual losses of 13M Euros.

[@ACSR17]

Good thing for Barcelona is that they bring in viewership, so neither LaLiga, nor UEFA will let them go down.

[@mahmoudbenchehida9315]

Would be useful to make a video regarding the difference between UEFA FFP and Spanish Liga FFP

[@sbs330]

FFP is the same...its not like each country have theire own rules. They are all under the same umbrella

[@tahas8261]

What people don’t understand is Barca selling their selling their tv rights wasn’t there choice. La liga tried to force all 20 clubs to sell 25% of their tv rights to the cvc company for the next 50 years but 3 clubs refused Barca Madrid and Bilbao so la liga told these 3 if they didn’t sell 25% to someone else they’d receive transfer bans. The offer cvc gave to Barca was 25% of their right for 50 years and they’d receive 280 million only and they can’t get out of the deal they’d be literally hooked for half a century so Barca sold 25% for only 25 years to sixth street who paid 607 million for it. And Barca can get out of this deal anytime they want before the 25 year period is over. So they received more than double the money for half the time period compared to the cvc deal and they can buy back their rights whenever they want. A clause that doesn’t exist in the cvc offer. So while clubs like Atletico Madrid. Valencia. Sevilla etc are all hooked for 50 years with cvc Barca aren’t

[@Jacob-wu3if]

I’m so happy I found this channel. Such great content, the format is easy to follow, and the people are just great. Good Luck to Barca

[@akoskovacs6830]

Guys, I have a question. Does Barcelona, the football club has this debt or is it for the Barcelona sport teams (basketball, handball...) in general? I don't know if the different sport teams are different entities in this regard.

[@david91lvb]

All the debt is on the Barcelona the football club

[@Nope-sj7es]

It almost entirely stems from the football club, but the debt is on barcelona as a sports entity

[@comicbookguy2326]

it's FCB as a whole that's in debt, not just the men's football team

[@lucasparis7284]

The debt is on the Football Club, but the other sports teams have taken a hit due to it

[@loudnessjr]

if i was laporta i would do : 1) get a loan of 1.35 bilion with installments by 35 years 2) pay all the current debt using that new long term debt

[@sanchitgautam3559]

Barcelona have strategically sold off their TV rights knowing full well that the world is moving towards digital media and they still can hold significant advantage through that in the coming years. They have few master strategists.

[@MrSmith1984]

I'm surprised that Barcelona hasn't recruited a lot of additional members considering the size of its fanbase. Nor done fundraising drives among said members to raise additional funds. Heck, they should be looking to get a Government Bailout (from the Catalan Government) as well.

[@zachstolpa6521]

Incoming fans complaining about tifo talking about finances like football DOESNT generate money😂

[@MrBark1969]

Not the amount barca owe to the banks... they're screwed

[@emmajones752]

​@@MrBark1969Stop stop, their statement was already dead, you ain't gotta bring out the blatantly obvious facts like that 😂

[@TylerSolvestri]

@@MrBark1969 You have 0 football knowledge, let alone economics wise

[@MercW11]

​@@MrBark1969screwed? Bro, Barca are too damn big to be screwed. If a time comes when Barca are no longer financially sound, the lowest they'll fall to is find a Qatari owner of a 25% stake of the club. I say Qatari because Laporta is fast friends with them (for some reason💀). That's the LOWEST they'll fall to. And that would be a disgrace, imo.

[@Nope-sj7es]

Modern day football isn't profitable, that's just the way it is

[@RichMitch]

Yes, absolutely

[@arshavindrameh32]

Very scary future ahead for Barcelona

[@harryp6484]

Hopefully 🙏🏻

[@ousmansano21]

​@@harryp6484Keep praying clown

[@harryp6484]

@@ousmansano21 mans never been to Spain in his life

[@ousmansano21]

@@harryp6484 I actually have twice

[@BaltoSaber]

​@@harryp6484 desiring the bad to other only shows how rotten are you as a human being

[@grantchristopher170]

Curious to know if and how the success of the women's club affects the overall finances for Barca. Does that play in at all, or are they treated as two separate entities? Do they get to write off all expenditures on the women's side from the men's balance sheet the way I believe clubs are allowed to in England?

[@tsukishima123]

Barca is not only about mens football. It includes mens& womens football, basketball,handball,esports,futsal and roller hockey. We should also consider lamasia operations(barca athletic,u19.....)

[@glenhammond1537]

Selling stakes in your most stable revenue streams (TV etc) and spending them on short term player acquisitions feels very unwise given the wider financial situation at the club. Even if the club grows it’s revenue, private equity now taking a big chunk of the pie each year. When you factor in all this plus a new stadium Barca are in an enormous mess and will be for decades.

[@akashbhargava906]

This video is outdated. Lot of inaccuracies. First of all Levers were used last year not two years ago. Also, Gavi and Araujo have been registered already. Please provide accurate information.

[@jedidiahe320]

Precisely everything seems rosey until an unexpected event hit again...

[@David-yy9kl]

Joe's voice ❤!

[@collapsiblechair9112]

barcelona's plight, the wealth of clubs owned by states and player fees are some of the many symptoms of the problems with footballs finances, it's so unregulated and resembles the free market, money has disfigured and warped football, the actual game is become less important and money is increasingly so. FIFA should regulate more but money is too strong and they cannot do anything. Money has won. To think Barcelona were once proud of having no shirt sponsor and represented something more. now they're selling their soul for more money just to keep up with the rest.

[@mhtv5959]

they still have unhcr logo on their kit. They could've sold those rights too for 10-15M Euro Deal to some company but they didnt. you put the mask on yourself first then to the one nearby in an emergency. Barca wont go bankrupt while going sponsorless and promote UNICEF

[@Philosific]

Thank you for making this video. As i have been saying, this can actually get worse for them, if RM decides to invest heavily in the club over the next season or two and make it difficult for them to win the league or the keep crashing out of CL.

[@diadiecisse3089]

Real have always been richer than us. But we’ve been the best team of the last 20 years regardless. At a certain level, how much money you make doesn’t matter. You can all buy big name players. What matters is how you play, the environment inside and around the club, discipline, etc… Barça managed to comfortably win the league in possibly their worst financial period. That speaks volume. The team is only getting better.

[@hajjiyare5722]

@@diadiecisse3089 you wrong barca before pandemic was to become the only club to reach 1b revenue we are better then madrid interms of club financial and as brand thats why we were bying so many big transfers players past 5 years you can check everywhere

[@diadiecisse3089]

@@hajjiyare5722 oh I didn’t know that. We were spending money like it grew on trees. Some of the contracts were downright outrageous too. But no worries. We built our best team of all time for practically nothing, only relying on la masia. How much you spend on players rarely matters at the highest level. Psg, man utd, etc… you need a great coach, discipline, and great environment.

[@jg7088]

I thought you guys stopped making videos

[@cheifwhat]

Can you do a video on the cause of all these financial troubles clubs are experiencing, particularly in Europe? That is. State owned clubs.

[@sumomaster5585]

How did you come up with that idea? what did city do to barcelona to make them go bankrupt?

[@somkayne]

Hello @Tifo! , can you give examples of the kind of solutions barca can implement to better the financial situation>

[@Videos_van_memes]

Play better football so just try to get to a ucl final or so. And further i think we have to get some players, train them, use them and sell them. So buy low(5m or so) and then his price tag wil improve to 20m and then sell him for 25 or so

[@hadyahmed7148]

When are we getting sensible transfers ?

[@albinbenny2384]

Barca is still paying Messi's owed wages. Thats the level of trouble they are in

[@chadflpo635]

Gavi & Aruajo have all been registered, what is even this video? Seems very uniform as to the situation today, the club needs to lose 90m not 200m, to bring their wage bill to around the 460m euros mark

[@coalec9445]

EBITDA is earnings before interest tax depreciation and amortization, so while -7mil may seem ok, add on the >30mil of interest expense and things aren’t going well. Plus operating profit is a better proxy than profit after tax as profit after tax includes those asset sales. The next several years will not have the same profit after tax I’m guessing

[@anansistirade5800]

?? They have registerd Gavi and Araujo

[@zenmonk5403]

The interest payments for the stadium will be chicklets against current inflation. That move was probably smart, unless whatever contract they signed allows to adjust the rate for inflation.

[@cheddarsmith6568]

This is basically early 2000’s dortmund, just in spain

[@aidanbochey4153]

Does the switch between languages make it harder for anyone to focus on the video?

[@TheAutogaming]

Tifo always

[@Anonymous-cr9rq]

Saudi clubs appear to be overpaying for European players. Seems reminiscent of Chinese teams overpaying a decade ago. Can we have a video on it?

[@PUREtrollin]

Barcelona legit need to sell some of their star players its going to have to happen at some point. They gotta make a profit and start from scratch with cheap youngsters.

[@timidstein888]

It's so disappointing to see so many historic, great clubs struggling financially around Europe and then watch EPL teams placing bottom half of table be in better financial situation 😒😒😒

[@kairo8155]

That's because they have billionaire owners.

[@MikeTHEBOSS]

You should be disappointed with La Liga and especially Barcelona and Real Madrid. They could have had the most competitive league in the world but decided to take the lion share of tv revenue. EPL is just better run and most fairly distributed

[@ronanfitzpatrick1261]

There's a few historic clubs in PL struggling financially too. I'm a Utd supporter, and while it's not the fans fault it is the fault of those running the club, piling bad decision upon bad decision thinking they were too big to fail - same with Everton etc, Utd just had more finances to squander than some of the rest. While PL clubs have better income so higher margins of error, a lot of European historical clubs current situation can be traced back to bad decisions pre-Covid. As for smaller clubs doing better, well, if they are well run and make good decisions then they deserve to do better. UEFA rankings put a ceiling on that growth but maybe some day they'll be the "historic clubs" and if they earn it, why not?

[@kairo8155]

@@MikeTHEBOSS better to have 2 Teams Who can complete against english Teams than None. without this, we would be like Serie A, a league Who is slowly but surely turning into a medium lv national one.

[@MikeTHEBOSS]

@@kairo8155 My point is that, if 10-15 years ago, La Liga was more fairly distributed, you would be the Premier League. Now you have no other option anymore than compete with just those 2 teams

[@TaskForce_911]

The Athletic and Tifo's obsession with Frenkie De Jong sale (to Man United) 😂 Let it go man. It ain't happening

[@natsudama4604]

Bruno is better than him though Man got bullied by Casemiro 😂😂

[@munawwarkhan1957]

The quality of your videos has gone down massively over the last year or two. Hope it improves

[@kipzonderkop1994]

Is the frame rate on this video deliberately even slower than your previous videos? It’s very distracting on this one

[@avidcule]

Gavi is registered now.

[@natsudama4604]

They will be back I don't doubt that Even though I don't support them or even remotely like them it's always right to say that something doesn't die if the root is still alive

[@bigjoe8109]

Why use EBITDA? FFP ain’t based on that, depreciation makes a difference

[@marcelanoryadi9110]

Barca will have to rely on : - academy players - free transfers players For the next 30 years

[@thvf2381]

considering how well lamine yamal, fermin lopez did in the past few matches, i'm sure they're fine.

[@HariStramarko]

@@thvf2381Lamine is one for the future but that Fermin guy nah he not barca level

[@iampiyushsingh7544]

😂. 30 years lmao. We will be getting 100m signings by the year we get full 100K camp nou opened.

[@aidand.2053]

Most positive English made video about Barcelona in history

[@bram1nabuurs471]

Its reality…. It will be tough for us Barca supporters coming 10 years I am afraid…

[@zilzainol]

Most European football clubs are facing financial problems because fans in the Asia Pacific no longer follow European football as they did 10-15 years ago. If European clubs come to Asia, stadiums will not be as full as before. Supporters in Asia Pacific now fully support their respective local football. In The USA itself, the MLS league is growing.

[@romanschuster1709]

Interesting choice to call asset stripping “lever-pulling” lol

[@robotjh6783]

Yes

[@kidpagronprimsank05]

They still in trouble, just not as big as last few years. But now, they must perform in UCL and cant afford another group stage exit. I can see Xavi being sacked if he can't get them to knockout stage for 3 consecutive season, regardless of domestic form

[@rmv9194]

The first UCL group stage exit is not on him, he just played the last two games and he had just gotten a team, that was 9th place in la liga thanks to Koeman.

[@kidpagronprimsank05]

@@rmv9194 but still, should he fail again, and given Inter in same group reached final this season, with more or less slightly inferior squad compare to Barca will put pressure for Xavi to perform in UCL or his seat will be unstable.

[@darkinstinctful123]

This brings me immense amounts of joy.

[@feedraaaaa]

Years of Bartomeomanagment aka mismanagement can't be fixed in a season. It's just a matter of time but Laporta will fix that while Allemany will keep the squad competitive. I have full faith

[@creasicle]

Barca's need for a steady flow of success is the root cause. No club can expect to challenge for the title and reach the latter stages of the champions league every year without fail. Just like how no club ever gets their transfer business right 100% of the time. Sometimes it's better to take your medicine, have a couple of fallow years, blood some academy players and rebuild when the financial situation allows it. What Barcelona have done is catastrophically short-termist. Watching them celebrate that title knowing the financial peril they're in has a hint of the emperor's new clothes to it.

[@listey]

Can anyone elaborate on the Gavi contract? They said it can't be registered but he still played almost every game last season. So it essentially seems meaningless.

[@caven7056]

Gavin had been registered. The video is incorrect

[@abhikanur9606]

he played as braca B player

[@euganieldamiao8084]

Gavi was playing registered as an academy player, hence the number 30. This video was probably made before the end of the season ,which explains the comments on Alba, and Busquets probable departures despite them already been gone.

[@iJaxy10]

@@caven7056 he initially wasn’t, then he got registered and was given the no6 jersey. But then they had to unregister him to help finances. So he had to go back to 30

[@caven7056]

@@iJaxy10 the point is Gavi is registered by the time this video was uploaded which makes the video incorrect.

[@aliawada4283]

I think Gavi new contract is signed right now no? Officially I mean , he got back his number and everything

[@football9958]

Videos take time to make probably happened during the making process of the video

[@aliawada4283]

@football9958 yeah probably , didnt think about that

[@whatdadogdoin7531]

So basically when you go on a spending rampage in the transfer market in FIFA manager career

[@mario72554]

Did they release Messi or they couldn’t resign him since he was now a free agent ?

[@kamranhussain2210]

It’s a phrase given when a player leaves (unless they’re sold) whether their contract expired or terminated.

[@mario72554]

@@kamranhussain2210 that’s a lie! Releasing a player means that the player was contracted to the club and you no longer require his/her services ! We can go all day long mind you I’m a specialist in this field!

[@Vfdi_MErCAD]

Apparently, we were made to believe that their salary cap couldn't accommodate Messi. According to the club, there had to be exits before Messi could return. They requested for two weeks to prepare an official offer but Messi didn't want to go down that path again. They wanted to re-sign him but they couldn't.

[@finnmoran]

@@mario72554doesn’t sound to me like you’re an expert at all. Sounds like you’re quite insecure about your expertise in fact.

[@litti1047]

@@finnmoranhe must be the monopoly guy 🧐

[@mindphaserxy]

They spent all that loot for Lewa, Raphina and Kounde. Kounde is a cornerstone kind of player but their rivals are getting...better players in guys like Bellingham.

[@TylerSolvestri]

Overrated, Madrid can’t win La Liga if Barca plays like they did this year in La Liga, in the last 2 seasons, they had peak Benzema and they were still poor in the league, what’s the big difference in change between an overrated English player and a Balloon D’or winner proving himself?

[@owanmah2933]

For 100 million.. while barca signed those 3 players for 150 million

[@arminius6506]

@@owanmah2933 dude anyone with the right mind knows that Barcelona is involved in some fishy activities and UEFA is just turning a blind eye. Who in their right mind would sign a player like Lewa for only 45 million Euros???

[@doncorleole2356]

@@arminius6506somebody who knows that he’d have left for free next summer

[@suchitmrzn5951]

​@@arminius6506bruh he's 35 basically finish after 1 or 2 seasons

Not only did Barça had and sporting crisis but also a financial one. However the two are linked, it was important for Barça to keep being competitive in order to have an exit of its financial crisis, investing in players has resulted well, they won La Liga, and they could have gone to next stages of the champions league if they had had a full squad healthy and already settled like they did after the World Cup. For me also as a fan, I believe the club is in the right path, and even if I would hate to see it, the worst thing that could happen is become a private owned entity, but the club has so much potential value that hardly will disappear. I wouldn’t mind if City group ends up buying the club, at the end, the ones running the show are ex Barça directors and manager in the case of Man City.

[@EliasRoy]

They could become S.A.D. like Atletico Madrid in 1992.

[@davit368]

is it allowed la liga? also bro ofc you wouldnt mind the city group erasing all these problems in a minute😂😂😂

[@EliasRoy]

@@davit368 I don’t think so. CFG owns Girona so Barça can’t be owned due to increase in March fixing.

[@picdu2891]

Gavi and Araujo are already registered. Please, check your sources.

[@nightking8490]

What do you expect from Tifo ?😂

[@picdu2891]

@@nightking8490 I mean, it's really a shame. Quality videos, some good talk, but ultimately a pro Premier League and anti Barça bias that always seeps through.

[@fredkaboom]

What's the point of FFP when Barca just finds creative new ways to screw themselves financially?

[@athul0687]

This video talks nothing about Laliga's viability plan which enables them to register all the new contracts including Gavi & Araujo's. Just lazy google search video rather than not dwelving into the details

[@simonguzza]

Barca should sign Levy from Spurs 😂

[@EliasRoy]

I mean financially they will do pretty good. Its just how will they get perform on the pitch

[@honestarsenalfan7038]

look i think they got unlucky with how Dembele turned out with the injuries. Not everyone they got for big money was bad

[@EliasRoy]

Hopefully, they will release him. He’s a liability.

[@caven7056]

Gavin had been registered

[@ryutenken1]

I mean of course they are they tried to be savy when Koeman managed and have financially lost the plot since they sacked him

[@changspaman]

so in short - Yes

[@dhruvphooli]

yes

[@willyvonfalknerheim4128]

they need champion leagues football make the quarter final every year because champion league night generate money and is the difference between being saved or stagnate

[@jimbojimbo6873]

Using 150m to sign the players they did was a terrible decision