Barca Transfers and Rumors

[jamrock]

And the best part is, Sevilla is not mad at LaLiga for destroying their club, but at Barca for finding loopholes to be able to keep signing players. Rather than uniting and aiming their anger at the cause, which is Tebas and his goons, they're fighting Barca because Laporta doesn't want to give up ambitions.
As always, their anger and frustration is completely misdirected.

Exactly which is the case for too many clubs in la Liga.

mad at us for figuring out a way to stay competitive, for choosing not to wither away and die, because they can't or refuse to do the same.

Which is why I will never get anyone who Hates on laporta, things could be so much more, us sitting on our hands happily accepting finishing 3rd for 4th to balance the books, FUCK THAT austerity never works.

 

[Maradona37]

The clubs are seeing it too late, but better late than never.

As I've been saying for years here relating to Barca, and it can be applied to the entire league, austerity is never the answer for growth.

But in Tebas' mind, he somehow genuinely believes that, or that one day all the EPL spending will catch up with it and La Liga clubs will be there to benefit.

In 50 freaking years, smh.

Like messi983 and many others have said, Villarreal shouldn't be in a position where they have qualified for the CL and instead of strengthening the squad, they have had to weaken it.

If Madrid were in a similar situation as other clubs, you can rest assured the rules would be relaxed or changed

Bold hits nail on the head. To become more successful it isn't about cutting corners. You have to invest in all sorts of ways - (not just financially, hard work, emotionally etc too) - to see a return.

 

[FinBarcelonafan]

Sevilla is also selling their most valuable player again, Bade to Leverkusen for 30m. The summer sales in LaLiga continues. WIth him gone, Sevilla's entire marketvalue on Transfermarkt will be around €130m. That's what's left of the mighty EL Sevilla today.

This is disgusting. A great club like Sevilla down in the gutter.

 

[jamrock]

At this point Barca should take advantage of la Liga mid and lower table clubs ability to sign players, by turning all those clubs into our feeder clubs are maybe 1/2 that players good football.

Loan out all our best youth players to them to develop, win win for everyone.

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Everybody that's considered a top talent and do it consistently over the years.

 

[Maradona37]

I think the issue with football is - as always, and this is a bit black and white but bear with me - a capitalism vs socialism argument.

Do you want a more balanced equal league, with lots of good teams? Or a few all-time or great teams around Europe, but a lot of teams who suffer as a result of the concentration of wealth and power.

Football has always veered towards the latter, and it has amplified post Bosman. This leads to some teams and - on a more macro level - entire leagues having more resources than others. So this leads to what is alluded to by messi983 earlier - VIllarreal, Sociedad, Sevilla etc having to sell their players to even mid and lower PL clubs because there's no chance they can offer the same wages. The PL's success and its collective TV deal has really warped football in that sense.

You can't really have both it would appear (amazing teams and lots of really good teams under them). Maybe there just isn't enough really good talent to go around? If there is an example of this historically I would love to hear about it. Maybe 80s Serie A to an extent? Lots of really really good teams.

 

[Loki]

Bold hits nail on the head. To become more successful it isn't about cutting corners. You have to invest in all sorts of ways - (not just financially, hard work, emotionally etc too) - to see a return.

Investment goes hand in hand with growth. If I run a factory and I have a demand for my product, then I take out a loan to buy more machines to be able to produce and sell more. That's the whole logic behind investment.
But if Tebas says I first need to earn my money for the additional machines, I keep selling my small amount of product I'm able to create with my single machine. And then if I finally have saved enough money for an additional machine, it took so long that my single broke down, so I need to use the money for it again and are still stuck with one single machine, while my competitors take away all my customers in the meantime because they're too tired to wait for me.

Tebas doesn't understand this most basic investment logic. He hurts clubs that want to invest, he hurts them by counting unique losses like Covid, clubs couldn't have predict or avoid, he hurt multi-sport clubs like us by adding all expenses of all sections to the footballer ffp. We're losing around 100m in ffp a year only because we're a multi-sports club.

LaLiga is hurting us in football, because we support other sports. You need to think about this disgusting logic.

For the 2025/26 season, Barça have a non-registrable wage bill of 95 million euro, with 56 million allocated to the professional teams, amateur sports, youth football, and the Barça Academy. “We are responsible for finding a balance, investing to keep every professional team competitive, within the rules of play set by LaLiga, while remaining true to the identity of the Club”, emphasised O’Callaghan.

Xavier O’Callaghan: 'The Club wants all professional teams to compete and strive for every trophy'

FC Barcelona Director of Professional Sports outlines the current financial fair play status and his involvement in managing the professional teams at a press conference

www.fcbarcelona.com

LaLiga is the biggest joke in professional football under this leadership.

 

[Messi983]

Dani Rodriguez deal to Celta Vigo with repurchase option close per Sport

Good move, hopefully he'll finally stay fit and prove his worth.

Celta is quietely having a very solid summer.

 

[Maradona37]

Investment goes hand in hand with growth. If I run a factory and I have a demand for my product, then I take out a loan to buy more machines to be able to produce and sell more. That's the whole logic behind investment.
But if Tebas says I first need to earn my money for the additional machines, I keep selling my small amount of product I'm able to create with my single machine. And then if I finally have saved enough money for an additional machine, it took so long that my single broke down, so I need to use the money for it again and are still stuck with one single machine, while my competitors take away all my customers in the meantime because they're too tired to wait for me.

Tebas doesn't understand this most basic investment logic. He hurts clubs that want to invest, he hurts them by counting unique losses like Covid, clubs couldn't have predict or avoid, he hurt multi-sport clubs like us by adding all expenses of all sections to the footballer ffp. We're losing around 100m in ffp a year only because we're a multi-sports club.

LaLiga is hurting us in football, because we support other sports. You need to think about this disgusting logic.

For the 2025/26 season, Barça have a non-registrable wage bill of 95 million euro, with 56 million allocated to the professional teams, amateur sports, youth football, and the Barça Academy. “We are responsible for finding a balance, investing to keep every professional team competitive, within the rules of play set by LaLiga, while remaining true to the identity of the Club”, emphasised O’Callaghan.

Xavier O’Callaghan: 'The Club wants all professional teams to compete and strive for every trophy'

FC Barcelona Director of Professional Sports outlines the current financial fair play status and his involvement in managing the professional teams at a press conference

www.fcbarcelona.com

LaLiga is the biggest joke in professional football under this leadership.

Yeah it's a very basic premise which he either fails to understand or doesn't want to.

 

[FCBarca]

Money, it's always down to money

That's why there are more matches & nonsensical tournaments, tv deals and cross marketing to exploit every last penny - in the long term it will reduce the game into a parody of 'competition'. It's always been lopsided in Spain which is logicall when you consider a club's economic level should reflect their sporting & marketing levels - yet there are only 2, maybe 3 who can pull that off internationally apart from the Basque clubs. Any way it is sliced, the big 2 will always be the big 2 - that won't change, perhaps ever

What should be the strategy is profit sharing to build the league and help stabilize the financially weaker clubs to balance their sporting & management efficiency. It should be weighted for where you finish in the table beyond top 4 for Europe. A financially healthy league builds a strong league and grassroots football. Culling them for Premiership fodder is not healthy

The big factor is tv money and no game is bigger than football and especially now with Barça...more reason why Spain seek to suppress the club's growth with Lamine. The capital is so petrified of how generational Yamal is that they will exploit/introduce any handicap of the club to prevent Barça from stamping an era in football

 

[ajnotkeith]

We should keep an eye on Richard Kone (striker) from QPR.

He has a career trajectory very indicative of a superstar in the making.

He played at amateur level until 20 years old because of citizenship issues, then in his first pro season with Wycombe at 21 in League One he scored 18 goals and won League One POTS.

He came to Wycombe Wanderers from a Step 5 team which essentially is Sunday League level and immediately became the best player in the league, to go from such a low level to an immediately very professional level and boss the league suggests he has a very high ceiling.

I am surprised that he did not go to a better club. It was said that Celtic and Leicester were interested but he settled with QPR who paid around £5 million for him. I think there is a good chance he becomes a £40-50 million value CF.

 

[ZenI]

Well Getafe president lashed out at LL FFP: "We're the laughing stock of Europe..."
It fucks up the league, action needs to taken - the fuck is happening?!

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[ZenI]

We should keep an eye on Richard Kone (striker) from QPR.

He has a career trajectory very indicative of a superstar in the making.

He played at amateur level until 20 years old because of citizenship issues, then in his first pro season with Wycombe at 21 in League One he scored 18 goals and won League One POTS.

He came to Wycombe Wanderers from a Step 5 team which essentially is Sunday League level and immediately became the best player in the league, to go from such a low level to an immediately very professional level and boss the league suggests he has a very high ceiling.

I am surprised that he did not go to a better club. It was said that Celtic and Leicester were interested but he settled with QPR who paid around £5 million for him. I think there is a good chance he becomes a £40-50 million value CF.

We won't even be able to register a fucking QPR player according to FFP EPL and oil clubs are fucking shit up at the moment...

 

[Fati_Future_BallonDor]

According to Mundo Deportivo, Saudi Arabian companies, including the construction group NEOM, want to invest tens of billions of euros in Barcelona to help the club solve its long-standing financial difficulties.

President Joan Laporta visited Saudi Arabia at the beginning of the year and met with Yasser Al-Misehal, president of the Saudi Arabian Football Federation, in Riyadh. The possibility of cooperation between the two sides was discussed. Saudi Arabian sources added that the Middle Eastern investment group is exploring options such as jersey sponsorship, sponsorship of basketball teams, or even opening a soccer academy abroad to legalize the flow of money.

The reason for this “workaround” is that foreigners cannot become shareholders of FC Barcelona because the club is owned by its members (socios). However, Barça's board is considering other forms of investment, such as sponsorship or commercial projects.

In June, Barcelona also signed a three-year sponsorship deal with Samba Financial Group, Saudi Arabia's largest financial group, marking progress in economic relations with the country.