Barcelona to activate fourth lever in bid to register new signings

Barcelona are ready to promote one other 24.5% stake in Barça Studios to boost the cash wanted to register their new summer time signings.

The membership have already activated three ‘levers’ this summer time, together with the gross sales of sizeable shares of their merchandising and TV rights, in addition to an authentic 24.5% stake in Barça Stadios to Socios.com.

President Joan Laporta had hoped that additional asset gross sales wouldn’t be crucial however La Liga are but to just accept the phrases of their enterprise this summer time, particularly the sale of their TV rights, which Barcelona are accused of inflating by €150m.

Now needing one other main sale to get them nearer to assembly the league’s wage laws, The Athletic state that GDA Luma are on the cusp of buying almost 1 / 4 of Barca Studios for a cool €100m.

Nevertheless, even that isn’t anticipated to be sufficient to register the brand new signings. Franck Kessie, Andreas Christensen, Raphinha, Robert Lewandowski and Jules Kounde all nonetheless want registering with La Liga, as do Ousmane Dembele and Sergi Roberto, who turned free brokers this summer time however ultimately inked new contracts.

To get under the wage cap, Barcelona proceed to pursue participant gross sales, together with the potential departure of Frenkie de Jong, however the likeliest avenue to discover is additional wage deferments among the many present squad.

Centre-back Gerard Pique is anticipated to conform to decrease his wage for the rest of the 2 years on his present contract whereas midfielder Sergio Busquets has additionally been requested to decrease his wages.

Barcelona’s La Liga marketing campaign will get underway on Saturday towards Rayo Vallecano, and because it stands, the aforementioned seven gamers is not going to be eligible to play.

This text was initially revealed on 90min as Barcelona to activate fourth lever in bid to register new signings.

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