Transfer bubble victim Barca: 200 million Qi "wasted", struggling

Reporter Han Bing reported on the bubble economy of football's buying superstars, and each burst will bring a fatal blow to the five major leagues. At the turn of the century in Italy, Palma de Palma, Florence were destroyed, followed by Leeds United and Dortmund. The vast majority of fans did not expect that the bubble of the superstar was blown up to the order of 100 million euros, and it could actually "pit" The world's richest Barca to a debt of 1.3 billion euros, almost completely bankrupt.

This winter window Barca was forced to abandon Coutinho and Dembele, two billion-dollar stars, coupled with the same billion-dollar Griezmann's loan back to Atletico last summer, which officially declared the nightmare of the Bartomeu era blindly involved in the billion-dollar star bubble completely over. But Barca paid too much, with the three billionaire superstars not only draining Barca of the €220 million profit and net expenditure of €173 million from the sale of Neymar, but also costing Barca a whopping €250 million in salary expenses over the same period. However, the club never reached the final of the Champions League, and the two La Liga titles could not avoid the club's rapid financial collapse.

Coutinho only took 18 months to make Bartomeu regret it, Dembele still has an age advantage, but he has created a huge financial black hole for Barca, and the club can only use salary cuts to extend the renewal of the payment to retain the face of this billion-dollar superstar. Unfortunately, Dembele himself would rather leave freely until the summer contract expires than accept a pay cut. In the form of an open letter, he completely tore up face with Barca, leaving him and Barca with no way out. Ironically, Dortmund and Chelsea even fell into a hole at this time, the former implied that as long as Barca transferred Dembele, the last 5 million euros of floating transfer fees would be waived; Chelsea's Tuchel was Dembele's former mentor to bear the offer of Dembele's full annual salary, which was equivalent to publicly humiliating Barca.

Laporta is also very helpless, after all, for Barca today, the important thing is not face, but total salary. Harvey still has at least two reinforcement targets in place, and Dembele could free up €20 million in salary space if he leaves, enough to meet the needs of two new signings. It's just that Dembele has now made up his mind to leave in the summer, and Barca either leave in the winter or renew his contract or the ultimatum that rotted on the bench in the second half made things unmanageable. With only a week to go until the transfer window closes, Barca certainly want to send Dembele gifts out of the country quickly, but the Frenchman's well-behaved personality makes his future difficult to predict.

Regardless of Dembele's eventual outcome at Barcelona, the Catalan giants have given the world a classic negative case. It will take at least 3-5 years for European football to emerge from the COVID-19 crisis, and the next star worthy of 100 million euros will make the capital behind the club very cautious. Barcelona, which has a big family, almost collapsed, and naturally should be taken as a warning.