Barcelona’s Player Registration Conundrum Rages On As Spanish Giant Financial Woes Limits First Team Players LaLiga Participation
Written by Olaleye Oluwadamilola
Barcelona’s player registration nightmare due to Spanish giant financial woes is limiting them from registering three first team players for the 2023/2024 season including Marcos Alonso alongside Inigo Martinez, and Inaki Pena, two summer arrivals.
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Barcelona’s player registration nightmare drags on as they are still unable to register Marcos Alonso – despite wanting to keep the ex-Chelsea star with the player adamant that he does not want to leave and will not even listen to offers according to reports although his Catalan employers keen to keep him on to ease their financial woes.
The LaLiga champions who are plagued with financial issues have now made a U-turn on the situation with Xavi and the club informing the defender that he is not for sale and should not pay attention to reports linking him to other clubs as he will be registered in the coming days according to SPORT.
The Spanish outlet claim Xavi wants to have two players in each position, with Alejandro Balde the first choice left-back but Alonso will be given opportunities throughout the season and knows his role in the team as an experienced and liked player in the dressing room.
Barcelona have had difficulties registering players for a couple of years now and have been selling off assets – or ‘financial levers’ – in order to be able to do so. Just last season, they were just able to register four of five new signings 24 hours before the campaign began.
LaLiga’s strict spending rules assign each club a spending cap that applies to first-team transfers and wages, whether that be on players or wider staff.
The spending limit for each club is calculated based off financial data that every team submits some time in advance of the summer transfer window. The data considered includes previous profit and loss, expected income for the coming season, and savings among other factors.
Xavi’s side appeared to receive a major boost to earlier this summer when they sold off 29.5% of Barca Studios to LIBERO Football Finance for around £103million.
In August of last year, the club sold two 24.5% stakes of their media company to Socios.com and Orpheus Media, though both reportedly missed a June investment deadline of £26m.
Players sales from this summer will help to alleviate the struggle but crippling financial issues mean one of football’s most decorated clubs has had to deal with massive debts which were to the tune of £1.1billion back in March.
Meanwhile…
Barcelona forward Lamine Yamal became the youngest La Liga starter this century on Saturday as the Spanish giants beat Cadiz 2-0 after the 16-year-old came into the side in place of the suspended Raphinha, and caused the Cadiz fullbacks problems all games with his tricky dribbling.
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He repeatedly linked up well with teammates, completing neat one-twos in attacking areas and whipping in dangerous crosses from the right wing.
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