Clearing Gerard Pique's salary off the wage bill seemed to give hope for Barca to strengthen the team in the upcoming transfer window. However, according to Joan Laporta, the club won't be able to bring new players to Camp Nou in January. Here's what he said:
“We had to use some levers, which were economic operations that saved the club from ruin, and now the club is in economic recovery, it is now healthy with an expected income of €1.225b, a profit also budgeted for 274 million, but despite that, according to the rules of the financial ‘fair play’ of the Spanish league, we cannot sign".
*The FFP rule means that the club can only spend 25% of what they save while still showing a profit.
“We and some other clubs are also trying to convince La Liga to be more flexible and allow us other types of interpretations that can make Barcelona strengthen itself even more" - he stated.
We can only hope that league officials will indeed be more flexible and allow the clubs to make the necessary reinforcements.
