Laliga confirms Barcelona’s expenditure limit increased by about €800 million after selling club assets
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Following the sale of club assets this summer, Barcelona’s spending limit for the current campaign has increased by over €800 million, LaLiga announced on Friday. After getting approval from the club’s members, Barca sold 49% of Barca Studios as well as 25% of their domestic broadcast rights for the following 25 years for a total of more than €700 million.
Because of this, Barcelona were able to spend around €150 million on new acquisitions during the transfer window, including Robert Lewandowski, Rapha, and Jules Kounde, while free agents Andreas Christensen, Franck Kessie, Hector Bellerin, and Marcos Alonso also joined.
It is a striking improvement over the previous summer, when the club was unable to afford to maintain Lionel Messi and LaLiga reduced their spending cap to €96 million. That cap was further lowered to -€144m by January, making it the only negative cap in the league.
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However, Real Madrid still has LaLiga’s highest expenditure limit. Madrid is permitted to spend as much as €683.5m on team operations per year.
The third-highest cap is held by Atletico Madrid, but at €341 million, it is around €300 million less than Madrid and Barcelona’s. The lowest caps, at just over €42 million for Elche and Girona, which was recently promoted, are held by Sevilla €200 million and Villarreal €151 million.
The LaLiga expenditure cap is based on the most that teams can spend on salaries, bonuses, and amortisation payments for transfers over the course of a season, not necessarily how much they are really spending.
Barca had previously exceeded their spending cap, which limited their spending ratio to 1:4 — 25% of any wages or fees they were able to save may be spent on new hires or contracts — but LaLiga told sources earlier this summer that their spending ratio now back to 1:1.
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