) Barca would rather not go down the route of appearing to prioritise registrations if they can avoid it. Which players are impacted? With just one day until Barca host Rayo Vallecano at Camp Nou in their first game of the season, none of the five summer signings -- Lewandowski, Raphinha, Christensen, Kounde or Kessie -- has been registered with the league. The Blaugrana have also not yet registered the new contracts signed by Ousmane Dembele or Sergi Roberto, either.
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3 billion. As recently as June, he said the club was still in intensive care. Less than a month later, he was signing Lewandowski for €45m and declaring the club to be "out of the hospital, " prompting Bayern coach Julian Nagelsmann to wonder out loud: "The only club that has no money but buys every player they want.
Sources have told ESPN more signings could follow, too. Chelsea left-back Marcos Alonso is expected to move to Camp Nou and Manchester City's Bernardo Silva remains a target, albeit a slightly more unattainable one at this stage. - Stream LIVE: Barcelona vs. Rayo Vallecano, 8/14, 2:30 p. m. ET, ESPN+ - Hunter: Why Kounde signing is a coup for Barca - Picks and predictions for all big European leagues, 2022-23Barca president Joan Laporta has delivered on his promise to back coach Xavi Hernandez by building a competitive squad capable of competing on all fronts, but in doing so, questions have been raised about Barca's spending. Laporta himself described Barca as "clinically dead" last year, with gross debt totalling €1.
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The ratio has been 1-to-2, 1-to-3 and 1-to-4 at different times over the past year, the most frequent being 1-to-4, which means they can spend 25% of what they make or save. Barca hoped the sale of television rights and a 24. 5% stake in Barca Studios would increase their limit sufficiently for them to operate at a 1-to-1 ratio and register all their signings. LaLiga informed them last week they were still not there yet, though, and as a result they were forced to sell another 24. 5% stake in Barca Studios on the eve of the new season in the hope of registering everyone. - ESPN+ viewers guide: LaLiga, Bundesliga, MLS, FA Cup, more - Stream ESPN FC Daily on ESPN+ (U.
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S. only) - Don't have ESPN? Get instant accessPrior to Friday's sale, a league source had told ESPN that Barca were able to register some of the new signings, just not all, although who would depend on the cost and combination of players. (For example, less salary space is required to register Christensen than Lewandowski.
The spending caps shift all the time, but at the end of last season, Barca's cap was -€144m (it was around €600m prior to the pandemic), the only negative limit in Spain, prompted by losses across the previous campaign of over €400m. Barca's wage bill, meanwhile, including amortisation payments, remains around €500m. While they are outside of their limit, the league only allows them to spend a fraction of what they make in savings on wages, whether through reductions or player exits, and in fees.
Therefore, these seven players are currently not eligible to play for Barca, despite featuring in the preseason. What do they need to do to register players? After selling 24. 5% of Barca Studios to Orpheus Media on Friday, Barca hope it's now just a case of the documentation being reviewed by the league and the paperwork being processed to register everyone. The sale of television rights (which gives up an estimated 5% of the club's annual revenue at around €40m, based on the most recent figures) was done in two packages, with each one dubbed a "financial lever" by Laporta. The sale of 24.
Why can't Barca register players? LaLiga's financial regulations are perhaps the strictest of the top European five leagues. Each Spanish side is given a spending cap that denotes the maximum amount they can spend on the first team in relation to players and coaching staff, a figure that includes wages and transfer fees. Lewandowski's cost on the books, for example, would be his salary plus €12. 5m as his fee is amortised over the length of his four-year deal. Stripped back in the simplest terms possible, the limit is essentially a calculation of what the club can afford based on revenue against outgoings and debt. It is also applied prior to signings so if a club does not meet the criteria laid out by the league, they can't register new players. This is where Barca find themselves just days before their season opener, a home date with Rayo Vallecano.
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Updated: When can Barcelona's summer signings play in LaLiga? Aug 12, 2022Sam MarsdenBarcelona correspondent (Editor's Note: This was updated on Friday following news that Barcelona had sold a further $100m in assets in order to get compliant with LaLiga ahead of the 2022-23 season. )There have been player presentations almost every week at Barcelona this summer. July began with the unveiling ceremonies of Franck Kessie and Andreas Christensen, two players signed on free transfers. Then came Raphinha from Leeds United, Robert Lewandowski from Bayern Munich and Jules Kounde from Sevilla at a cost of over €150 million in combined transfer fees.
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