Barça is threatened with losing the Champions League: a financial disaster as a horror scenario
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After losing to Inter Milan, FC Barcelona is threatened with losing the Champions League: A financial disaster could cast a black shadow.
Of the Barcelona FC despite an endless mountain of debt in the summer, he couldn’t resist buying new stars and spent a total of 153 million euros on it. Not to mention the high salaries for Lewandowski and Co. and the debts to other clubs. Despite everything, the Catalans are threatened in the Champions League the premature knockout After losing at Inter Milan, the Xavi club must win at home against the Nerazzurri to keep their chances of progressing from vanishingly small. An end would be the ultimate horror scenario for the club.
FC Barcelona have shown a great deal of impatience in recent months and years. After the sporting setbacks in recent seasons, the club wanted to close the gap to the top teams with the help of millions in transfers. The transfers were made possible in particular by the sale of TV rights to the American investor group Sixth Street.
It’s clear that Barca will have to forego revenue in the coming years. This is fatal for several reasons. On the one hand there is the mountain of debt, which is said to be over one billion euros, and on the other hand there are the high running costs – especially in the form of salaries – that have to be paid. Added to this is the fact that the stadium modernization is said to cost the club over a billion euros. But that’s not all. Purchases like Torres, de Jong or Dest have still not been paid off. Overall, the Catalans want other clubs 144 million euros owed.
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It is clear that a club that takes such irresponsible financial risks and spends money that does not exist needs one thing above all: quick sporting success. Everything that FC Barcelona has invested in the past few months is based on the hope of being able to earn money again by winning big titles.
It goes without saying that this is particularly lucrative Champions League. A total of around two billion euros will be played in the premier class. The bonuses for getting ahead alone are extremely high. According to this, there are already income differences of around 50 million euros between a preliminary round and a final entry. You can imagine how much money the Catalans will lose if they are eliminated in the preliminary round. It was certainly not taken into account that from winter onwards it could only continue in the Europa League, which of course makes far less money.
A departure would therefore not only be a sporting blow to the neck, but also a financial disaster. In the past, one could often observe the phenomenon that a club lived above its means in the hope of quick sporting success. This way is among other things Borussia Dortmund nearly went bankrupt in the 2000s. Barcelona chose to take the full risk in the summer and are walking a fine line. Should things actually go wrong in the Champions League preliminary round, the tree would probably burn violently. If the successes do not come quickly in the following seasons, one does not want to imagine what will become of the glorious club.
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