Barca need to free up 5% salary space to register Felan, and Luke De Jong left the team to pay a small salary

On December 28, Barca officially announced the joining of striker Ferran Torres on December 28, local time. Although Ferran has joined the team at present, he is still unable to register with LaLiga (Spanish professional football league) due to Barca's salary cap problem.

At present, the team is not registered with veteran Alves, and Aguero's retirement has left a vacancy for Alves. An important way to continue to free up the salary cap is to reach a contract extension with Dembele and cut his salary sharply, while also cleaning up the redundancy in the team, and the players including Luke De Jong and Demir are now close to leaving the team.

According to the Daily Sports newspaper's citation of LaLiga's relevant regulations, even if the two leave the team, they will not have a significant impact on the salary space. On the one hand, the salaries of the two are very low, on the other hand, the sum of the salaries of the two does not reach 5% of the team's lineup expenditure, so according to the league regulations, only 25% of the salary space they have vacated can be used for new signing registration. In other words, to register Felan, Barca must clear at least 5% of the salary space.

Therefore, the only thing Barca can do next is to send high-paid players such as Umtiti and Coutinho out of the team as soon as possible. Coutinho currently ranks first with an annual salary after tax at about 229,000 euros, while Dembele is second with 173,000 euros, and in third place is Umtiti with 159,000 euros.