Barcelona continues to raise money, sale of Barca Studios and other TV rights expected

In the current transfer window, Barcelona have already completed the transfers of four top players, led by the latest signing Robert Lewandowski. However, the financial health of the club is now a big question mark for the entire football world. That’s why club president Joan Laporta decided to put the facts on the current state of the club’s coffers.

In the last two weeks, four highly sought-after world-class players have transferred to the Blaugranas. Both Andreas Christensen from Chelsea and Franck Kessié from AC Milan came as free agents, but Raphinha from Leeds and Robert Lewandowski from Bayern Munich cost the Catalans a total of over €100 million.

That’s a decent chunk, considering how bad the club’s bank account probably is. Or rather, from the club management’s side, a very interesting to suspicious job, when just a year ago it boasted an unenviable debt of €1.2 billion.

The first step in Laporte’s plan to raise finance has already been taken, with the club selling 10% of the TV rights, for which it collected just over €200m, and the approval of the sale of a further 15%, which should generate around €320m. The Catalans have already used the €200 million raised from an earlier investment in Sixth Street to repay the loan.

Barcelona needs additional funds, among other things, to register new players, which should be helped by the sale of some players such as goalkeeper Neto or Dutchman Frenkie de Jong, whose transfer saga, in which Manchester United plays a major role in addition to him and Barcelona, seems to be endless.

The club’s directors are also vehemently discussing the possibility of selling a minority stake in Barca Studios. Communication regarding the sale of the audiovisual rights is already underway with representatives of NFT and Metaverse and, according to the club’s estimate, a sum of around 200 million euros could flow into the club’s coffers.

All in all, if the club’s management, led by president Laporta, manages to make this second phase of the project, with the working title “We raise money where we can”, it should be enough to register all the new arrivals, including Robert Lewandowski.

Source: Goal, Transfermarkt