CVC meant selling 10% of the club image & media rights to an equity fund for 50 years for a one time 2.7bn cash injection p/club, which was also intended 70% to be spent on infrastructure. As later on clubs found out, this cash injection was on installments. 500m now, 500m after next 6 months. Wasn't going to save our salary cap and Messi.
On the short term, probably yes. But given the turmoils in 2022, it would have ended in the same drama scenario the next transfer summer window.
The rules changed or at least how they would be applied & interpreted kept changing. Could Tebas have found a way to force Laporta to make difficult squad sacrifices in order to keep Leo? Maybe and certainly for the league in a bigger picture it wold've made some fiscal sense to do it rather than cut the legs out from a club that was in tremendously difficult financial circumstances. The outcome of the audit revealed the depths of the FFP limitations. Liga had Barça over the barrel and there was no time to really pivot and avert what came next without making hard choices as Messi's contract ended on June 30 and FFP limits that were imposed were in effect (despite a negotiated 5 yr renewal at a reduced salary).
