A few days ago, the Daily Sports reported that due to the lack of confidence in Barca's official financial situation, La Liga has entrusted a third-party audit company BDO to re-audit Barca's financial situation last season. According to the results obtained by the media from within the company, this is very different from the results previously released by Barca, and the figure of loss is only half of what it was before!
The news means that Barca's new president, Laporta, has deliberately exaggerated the club's indebtedness, pushing more of the loss onto the head of his predecessor, Bartomeu. What does he want to do? He was obviously in the next big game.
Inflating the extent of the loss, resulting in a decline in the salary cap, Barca did not have the salary space to renew Messi's contract. In addition, Barca can also win more sympathy points when negotiating deals. For example, let Harvey pay the termination fee out of his own pocket; persuade Traore to accept a salary of 350,000 euros for half a year; persuade Aubameyang to accept a sharp salary cut, and so on.
There is also a very important point. Barca have reported losses a bit worse this season and will improve significantly next season. Because in the summer window, there will be a number of players leaving the team, Dembele, Luc De Jong, Depay and Roberto. In addition, Barca have recently been talking about a new sponsor, selling the naming rights at Camp Nou. Together with revenue from other businesses, Barca's debt for their next financial statement will fall sharply, and their salary cap will increase significantly accordingly. At that time, Barca will be able to sign any heavyweight new signing they want, such as Haaland!
Sure enough, earlier, the Daily Sport said that for Barca, the introduction of Haaland was simply unimaginable a few months ago. However, they were financially prepared, and they already had enough economic strength to bring in Haaland. In addition, Xavi has agreed to Barca's introduction of Haaland, he believes that the Norwegian super center forward can be integrated into the team's system, and his arrival can further enhance Barca's competitiveness.
In addition, Laporta has a good personal relationship with Haland's agent, Rayola. In their previous meetings, Rayola made it clear that Haaland would not opt for the offer with the most money and that the club's ambitions in the transfer market were equally important. All of this information suggests that Barca are approaching Haaland little by little.
Looking back at La Porta's actions in the past few months, we have to sigh that for the sake of Barca's revival, the honorary president has braved the insults and gone all the way. Letting messi go directly let Barca fall into the lowest trough, but also freed the club from Messi dependence. Letting go of the best right-back in La Liga was met with accusations.
But after returning to Xavi as manager, Barca began to get on track little by little. The club's legendary midfielder, who knows the essence of Barca football, continues to reuse the young Man of La Masia and then uses every available means to reinforce other positions and move towards his ideal pass-and-control play. When the time is ripe, there will be another heavyweight reinforcement to directly enhance the strength and influence of the team. Although Barca fans have mixed reviews of Haaland, giants like Barca cannot lack top stars for a long time. Especially in the case that Mbappe is about to join Real Madrid, Laporta also needs a player who can compete with its influence and recreate the grand situation of "Mero's hegemony".